65. Star Child

Within the interior of a warm, dark star
have you all slept, unattended for years
Millenia have passed, as you lay dormant
the Children of Ancients, Beautiful Star Babies

Quiet and alone have you lain for too long
barely alive, void of care and emotion
So with our own love, did we cover you all
hearing you sigh and breathe once again

Then born to the Earth in bodies so small
do your Heavenly spirits now have to contend
With senses so limited and emotions so raw
you feel your hearts burst or your skin crawl

But now as adults do you wander the Earth
touching the trees and smelling the wind
Perhaps in your lifetime, you'll see us walk by
drawn straight towards us, but not knowing why....

28. The dog's heart

I lie beneath the poutokomanawa closing my eyes
I can still make out Tama ki Hikurangi
and I can still see the image of Te Kooti
hanging in his small frame above it

Small golden stars appear above me
They move into formation as a triangle
Puangahori (Procyon) and Pūtara (Betelgeuse)
Meeting below, meeting Takurua (Sirius)

The head of a black dog comes forward
and later I am reminded of Canis Major
Paying particular attention to Messier 41
The heart of the kuri - an 8 sided star

With it's mouth (Sirius) in front
With it's heart (M41) behind it
Is this the doorway to the heart
a doorway to eight sources of mauri,
all within a beloved dog's heart?

Te Mōkai o Te Kooti