Aotearoa, your spirit calls across
the sea,
your long boats cut the waves,
part the prairie grasses,
we are one, life and death,
long-suffering, triumphant
thunder ripped asunder,
star-shine together,
Doers and Done-to
above the clouds.
Celia Turner is a Loveland published poet in Northern Colorado Writers and Columbine Poets annual anthologies,Poetry Potion and winner of the 2020 Denver Women’s Press Club Unknown Writer’s Contest. She regularly studies poetry, takes workshops and classes. The Grind online practice of a daily poem submitted to a random participating group each month has been a boon. Poetry for her is an ongoing intimate conversation she continues to have with those unmet but not unknown.