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LIFE’S SUNRISE FLOWS IN THE VEINS: TE RANGIHIROA – SIR PETER BUCK

Oh navigator, Am-Kiwi Maori father,
New York, Hawaii, Ngati Mutunga, Yale scholar,

Swedish Order of the North Starman, our peak of Maunga Loa. 
Your mind a swirling ocean of te aute, Colenso thoughts.
Rare exotic-novel man abroad. Medicine man of culture back home.

Those forbearing formidable, Polynesian Vikings of The Sunrise
always whispering wisdom of life's tupuna flows in the veins.

–Ode to Te Rangi Hīroa, Sir Peter Buck, Kiwi hero.

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Photos: Margaret Wilson and Sir Peter Buck. Sources: & National LibaryPuke Ariki & Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand, reference number: 1/2-078259-F, circa 1930.

~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 1.9.12~

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