Tamati Dances
Monday, June 18th, 2018 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bairnsidheTamati dances
He dances the haka to thank Rangahore
For her gifts to her children, the rocks
Tamati dances
He dances the stories of his ancestors
For the people who come to learn, the children
Tamati dances
He dances destruction and creation
Earth moves when he plants his feet, the roots
Tamati dances
Tamati thinks
He thinks about Tane who made Mankind
And left all his wives to do so, even Rangahore
Tamati thinks
He thinks about promises broken open
Like things split by volcanic heat, even rocks
Tamati thinks
He thinks about other gods and godesses
Known for creating and destroying, even Pele
Tamati thinks
Tamati grows
He grows as a person and as a supervillain
Building connections through tunnels, underground
Tamati grows
He grows as a brother and a tribal member
Expanding his family through marriage, surprisingly
Tamati grows
He grows roses and herbs with his Tuahine
Covering planters of lava rock with green, budding
Tamati grows
And he thanks Pele and Tane now too.
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Date: 2018-06-18 11:03 pm (UTC)The context is fuzzy, but the character definition* is rich.
And of course it gains weight of significance in the light of what Pele is doing on Kilauea right now.
* as in optics, not in dictionaries
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Date: 2018-06-19 01:09 am (UTC)Yeah, poems don't often come out for me with a whole lot of context, they tend to be deep dives into character and emotion. I saw Ysabet's prompt of Pele being a geo-scale gardener, and I recalled Tamati gardening with Dacia, which apparently alerted him and he came to dance a haka in my head until I wrote his story out for him. Since dance and poetry are both right-brain/emotion-mind things for me, it translated out in verse.
>>And of course it gains weight of significance in the light of what Pele is doing on Kilauea right now.<<
I mean, who better to appreciate Pele for her hard work in times like these than a super villain? He understands better than most that if you wanna make an island, you're gonna break a few eggs. If that means some people don't thank you, it's not like you did it for them anyways.