I thought I would do this one as a podcast. I thought for a while about whether I would post this poem - because it is me and my real thoughts. I read it out to my Te Kurahuna whanau (aka my work team at Mahi a Atua) in a Hinekauorohia process that we have - reflecting on our own journey every maramataka phase. I had just happened to write this poem that morning in my journaling practise I do most mornings. In spite of feeling very vulnerable when reading it out, I realised that it is in that vulnerability that we connect the most. When we say the ‘real stuff’ that goes on in our heads.
One of the koha I received back after reading the poem, was for me to remember Tane Mahuta and the many ‘failings’ Tane had in trying to separate the parents. And also the many ‘failings’ of the atua, when they were trying to create the first human. What were the lessons from those many varied ‘failings?’ And in those failings there were also other beautiful koha received.
Arohanui, Lisa
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