Andrew Mcauley

He is out there with Nature his is a watery grave
The man who loved adventure but he was truly brave
His kayak was found capsized just out of Milford Sound
A day or two and he would be with family and friends and safe on solid ground.

Andrew Mcauley the Australian adventurer was so close to history
To be the first to kayak from Tasmania to New Zealand across the Pacific sea
He was a brave adventurer one who lived without fear
And he must have known to history that he was very near.

He did not make it to land this time luck not on his side
But he was a true adventurer and on his greatest adventure he died
He went so close to history till things for him went wrong
And amongst the great adventurers he surely does belong.

Somewhere in the vast Pacific his last remains now lay
And he did not live as many do for to grow old and gray
Dear Lady Luck ran out on him in his greatest ever test
And he died in his late thirties doing what he liked doing best.

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It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.

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When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.

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There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.

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It Is Time That Will Be Judge

theme unpatriotic
seems over used
in some countries

in free New Zealand
people still demand
freedom of speech

though not in pubs
where alcohol tempers
can swiftly end such

debates religion politics
get in trouble hot heads
it is time that will be judge

poem by Terence George Craddock
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Nationalistic Catastrophe Governs-Mentally Engendered

In New Zealand
potential equalled people
source sustaining
planned future prosperity.

Turkey’s critical
expanding ethnic cultures
within politically
limited land mass.

Attracts foreign forces like PPK
influencing social degeneration.
Profit geared militarist capitalist
environmental economic rape ruination.

Potentially ultimately neo-liberalism
nationalistic amoral annihilation.

New Zealand required operation...?
Nats (national) Nazi health care policy.

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poem by Terence George Craddock (1995)
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Prime Minister John Key

Prime Minister John Key of New Zealand,
Let us think of how best to build back 'Christchurch';
For the heavy earthquake came and destroyed everything!

I saw it on the T.V. and you felt it on your land,
But let the world come to your aid to build back 'Christchurch';
For tomorrow is the New Moon.

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Signs....

a pending
volcanic eruption
in Irosin

earthquake in
New zeaLand

protests in Libya
Iran

mUBArak ousted
floods in Punta

mispelled wordss
trgemblin
letters

shattered beliefs
bloated stomachs

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Nationalistic Catastrophe

In New Zealand potential equals people
proven source of aspired future prosperity.

In Turkey rapidly expanding masses
within relatively limited land mass.

Is a force of possible social degeneration?
Environmental and economic ruination
and potentially nationalistic annihilation?

These spectres lurk in war are defeated in peace.

poem by Terence George Craddock
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Born To Sing

a few are born to sing
with rare heart soul
voice music inspires real...

lends a little magic
quickening moments
of sweet happiness...

to everyday lives
of gathered listeners
played for on the day...

nice to see scenes
of New Zealand after
a decade plus away...

Inspired by the song ‘Would Ya Give Your Heart' by Boh Runga.

poem by Terence George Craddock
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Earthquakes And Tsunami

Some scientists had located a missing geological piece therefore,
They found a puzzle of plate tectonics in the Southwest Pacific Ocean.
East and West Antarctica had spread twenty six million years before.
The rift between them opened one hundred miles due to this motion.

The scientists had clearly described how the Pacific tectonic plate,
The North American plate and others have moved at different points in time.
As one plate moves, the adjoining one is affected and there were adequate
Theories about plate moves, earthquakes, tsunami and changing the clime.

One plate affects the other one because the mantle was planetary pieced
In a plate tectonics jigsaw puzzle, named the 'global plate circuit' mystery.
Zones around the Antarctic Ross Sea and the West rift were imbalanced,
Pushing other plates and this fact has been a mystery for a quarter century.

Knowing about the plate motion around Antarctica is an important key
To understand the motions between the Pacific and North American plate,
To understand better than before the East and West Antarctica geology
And to determine the plate motions in California, until it is not too late.

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New Zealand

An earthquake struck New Zealand's city of Christchurch on Tuesday
Burying vehicles under debris and collapsing buildings into the streets.
Police announced a curfew and city was shut down on Wednesday,
Rescuers scrambled to reach beneath the rubble the residents.

The quake devastating the spire of the Cathedraland is a real tale.
The buildings had collapsed and the people were trapped inside.
All around the city, this powerful earthquake strangely bent some rails, Moreover, it toppled the tall buildings and seventy five people died.

The earthquake combination of distance and depth was so deadly,
Streets were strewn with concrete and people were stuck in towers.
Firefighters climbed ladders to pluck people from roofs to safety.
Buildings have gone because aftershocks hit the city within two hours.

Pre-World War buildings were damaged by the quake on September,
People wandered through streets strewn with debris and concrete.
The further damage was caused by a strong aftershock in December.
Now there is a real carnage with bodies littering the streets..

The women went into premature labor and the city was in agony.

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Nationalistic Catastrophe International? No!

“In New Zealand potential equals people
proven source of future prosperity.

In Turkey rapidly expanding masses
within relatively limited (cityscape) land mass.”

Is political polar fractions force
of possible social degeneration.
Environmental and economic ruination
and potentially nationalistic annihilation.

Borders bound by troubled nations
potent potential threat dividing within.
Terrorist independence Islamic militant
Tear politically at hearts exposed neck.

Eurasian country Anatolian peninsula
in Western Asia Eastern Thrace
southeastern Europe bordering eight countries:

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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Washed Ashore In Ages Past

two weeks later a leg
washed ashore
to be buried at
Charleston cemetery
New Zealand

to be buried as
presumably
the partial remains
of an ancestor
who drowned

needlessly
while attempting
to tow a schooner
through narrow
tidal rocky entrance

heroic rescue
of drowning man

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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Master Of Origami We Honour

master of origami folding many coloured
pieces of paper into objects of appealing interest
animals people flowers mysterious artifacts
respect and honour are given master creator

in Japan an artist is honoured respect is due
no cretin comments “imagine a grown man
sitting around all day folding pieces of paper”
this is not New Zealand where a master poet

is ignored condemned by creatures of contempt
master of origami we honour wonder in your eyes

poem by Terence George Craddock
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The Nagging Wife Won The Prize

There was a news from New Zealand,
about a nagging wife and a hesitant husband.
The wife was nagging her husband to buy a lottery ticket,
who was reluctant and hesitant,
postponing until 2 minutes before the sale closed.
The ticket won the prize.....the highest and the most.
It was about 4.2 millions NZ dollars.
They could'nt be happier.
The husband thanks his nagging wife,
for the rest of his life,
because the nagging has its bright side,
making them millionaire overnight.

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Life Tossed By Waves In A Storm

Life stasis is a calm wave
swept breath beach
smooth sand tide swept.
Life storms preach
motion change dynamic fluid.

Lizzie Limpet should
have rocked on
exploration has benefits.
Clinging to a rock
is leave ever beached.

Staying clamped
in one place life caged
a stick-at-home
stuck stick in the mud
is denial lesson fixed.

Lizzie Limpet is a character in a story by Edith Annie Howes, a New Zealand teacher, visionary educationalist and writer of approximately thirty children’s books.

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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The Burial of Sir John Mackenzie

(1901)

They played him home to the House of Stones
   All the way, all the way,
To his grave in the sound of the winter sea:
   The sky was dour, the sky was gray.
They played him home with the chieftain's dirge,
Till the wail was wed to the rolling surge,
They played him home with a sorrowful will
To his grave at the foot of the Holy Hill
   And the pipes went mourning all the way.

Strong hands that had struck for right
   All the day, all the day,
Folded now in the dark of earth,
   Veiled dawn of the upper way!
Strong hands that struck with his
From days that were to the day that is
Carry him now from the house of woe
To ride the way the Chief must go:

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The Great Spirit Echoes

The dreams of the immigrant
the hopes of the native

when the sweat meets the soil
the dollar the hands of the needy

the dance of waves upon Chilean shores
the fires still kindling upon the reservations
the African rivers the Alaskan Storms
the heights of New Zealand the Amazonian basins
the mist above the hills
the lone lotus in the forest
the sacred rituals the sexual release
electricity of the city

through all life
channeling from coast to coast

the long sigh of the buffalo's ghost
the great spirit echoes

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A Nail In Nicolas Sarkozy's Coffin

Will French
Socialist Party
challenger
François Hollande

attain pole position
defeat as expected
Nicolas Sarkozy
president of Republic?

We've got
a strong turnout
for today's
presidential election.

We estimate
the turnout
will stand at 82%
at least by 8pm.

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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