New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.

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Nature's Strong Hands

Oh 'Christchurch' of New Zealand! !
Nature's strong hands tolled on you and the whole land was destroyed;
And it now looks like a scene after the war,
But who can control nature's strong hands?

'Christchurch' of new Zealand! !
Of the things destroyed and of those who died after the earthquake;
But equally to all is the muse of life,
So let those who are still alive take up the pieces and see how best to rebuild them again.

poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

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European Heritage Invasion Versus Pacific Peace Isolation

Your heritage childhood learning post communist Yugoslavia
splintered by bitter nationalism rural urban divisive civil war
I isolation the Buller West Coast South Island New Zealand
province values were old country colonial family status core

we embrace histories of diversity invasions splinter identities
religion belief nationality posed threats to communist policies
religious differences between Orthodox Serbs Catholic Croats
and Muslim Bosniaks mixes into volatile political aspirations

in contrast isolated colony New Zealand enters European wars
under the banner of British Empire assumes her own identities
heritage ancestry denomination Christian mixes with Polynesian
the government encourages Asian immigration multiculturalism

post Maori New Zealand Wars NZ embraced peace in isolation
post Yugoslavia accepts European power surge manipulation?
accept 'the situation in the terrain' common message it's a mess
up manipulation crime spiral from local to global level policies?

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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

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If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer.

quote by Lewis Black
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I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed.

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Artistic Emulation Or Concept Original?

instead of emulating the other
with regard to overseas style
get personal agenda individual
becoming prime part of other

true to your own
unique voice voices
within your styles
that soul define

you is desirable

learning to grasp
attain
inner vision
Katherine

Mansfield attained desirable

exquisite

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians.

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By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made.

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In New Zealand

I pray and hope that,
You are not much affected by the recent earthquake in New Zealand!
For i saw the news on my T.V. set and,
It was not easy at all;
And i wonder where you are.

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I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

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And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons.

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Christchurch

It’s a small town.
It’s only a suburb.
But it’s a nice suburb.

Sometimes a suburb
can be a nice place to see.
Flowering free kiwi city

of botanic elfin trees.
Cathedral garden
city of New Zealand.

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Kingsborough

A waving of hats and of hands,
The voices of thousands in one,
A shout from the ring and the stands,
And a glitter of heads in the sun!
“They are off—they are off!” is the roar,
As the cracks settle down to the race,
With the “yellow and black” to the fore,
And the Panic blood forcing the pace.
At the back of the course, and away
Where the running-ground home again wheels,
Grubb travels in front on the bay,
With a feather-weight hard at his heels.
But Yeomans, you see, is about,
And the wily New Zealander waits,
Though the high-blooded flyer is out,
Whose rider and colours are Tait’s.

Look! Ashworth comes on with a run
To the head of the Levity colt;
And the fleet—the magnificent son

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Child Of Mist

Returned
to Christchurch in 83

a toy town
matchbox city

after Melbourne.

New Zealand
is like that
not yet ready
to grow up.

Yet sometimes

the eyes
of a child

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I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.

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On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat.

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The Hollow Ones

Freaky New Zealand neigh
egoists echoing emptiness.
It would be alright perhaps
had they something to say.

Perception to precision say it.
Something real profoundly new.
Revelation of Creation writ.
Some do. Seek the vision true.

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Leapin' Lizards or How to Get the Most Out Your Geico (so easy a caveman can do it)

Hans Kurt Kubus,58, had a 'thing' for lizards.
This German knows his insurance policies,
- and he is no Neanderthal man who likes gizzards.
Kubus, No, not the video game cubis, attached 44 lizards to his body,
He attempted to smuggle them out of New Zealand, Scott free.
Hans had the geckos and skinks within his underwear,
I don't why men put things in there underwear,
I cannot believe they don't care.
Hans did not attempt to light his britches on fire.
As the Muslim terrorist tried to do as he and others flew to Detroit,
The situation was, at the time, dire.
But Hans was caught, he was not as smart as a caveman,
A caveman in New Zealend.
Hans was arrested and sentenced to two weeks in prison and fined $3,450
-before he was deported back to Germany.
Hans Kurt Kubus might try an asp or viper next time around,
-he will probably take pass.
Hans Kurt Kubus is not as smart as New Zealand caveman, -he is a real dumb a$$.

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