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Leader – A Calm Persona
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Leader: A Calm Persona is What We Have
We feel safe; well, as safe as one can be
under the climate of Pandemic Covid-19.
We feel safe; well, as safe as one can be
under a leader whom the country trusts.
Groups over 500 persons may not congregate;
as yet, small groups, remain at liberty to meet.
All persons arriving from other countries,
other than the Pacific Islands, must self-
isolate for the next fourteen days. Haeremai,
we welcome those who respect the care
and the rights of all: here or abroad. Just read,
listen, put in place, quick shifting emergency rules.
And we will feel safe under a leader we can trust. She,
who advises, that rather than shaking hands we might
do what is known as the East Coast Wave like so:
a raise of the chin, then drop, quick and slight
and which indicates all is cool. It’s an Iwi thing
or you might like to do the Kahungunu Wave;
the difference being, that here you raise
your eyebrows in greeting, in affirmation
in exasperation or, in seduction. We feel safe
with these new/old ways of interaction suggested
to us by our leader, P.M. Jacinda Ardern: the leader
we know we can trust with her calm, confident persona.
I know all the instructions around self isolation.
I’m in an age group within high risk. But tomorrow
my favourite community group (all at high risk);
U3A Poetry Appreciation, and we have approval
to proceed. Our subject will be Flight and Transportation
chosen many months ago though I cannot see our members
giving either the East Coast or the Kahungunu Wave
as we assemble. I’ve chosen three poems, all of them dark.
Where are the poems for Twenty Twenty: a world now in pandemic;
our unbelievable world of fear and flight;d never again the same.
Benita H. Kape (c) 16.3.2020
Haeremai = welcome
Iwi = Maori tribe (specific)
Kahungunu = an East Coast (N.Z) Tribe
Burnished Clay – Eyebrow – a little heavy to raise.
benitakape 