New Zealand Poetry Society
TE RŌPŪ TOIKUPU O AOTEAROA
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The New Zealand Poetry Society Te Rōpū Toikupu o Aotearoa supports and promotes poets and poetry in New Zealand. Established in 1973, we engage with individuals and communities across Aotearoa who share a sense of curiosity and excitement about poetry.
Poem of the Month
JULIE ANNE BATES
When The Pen Runs Out of Ink
You wandered in with your beauty
and stayed a while… tracing your
long fingers over a lived in face,
eyes soulful and weary, sorrowful
yet with tremendous faith
Our task is to die awake… to fall
as a drop of rain into the vast ocean
When our pens run out of ink, sighing
deeply, slowly turning our feet towards
home… to lie down under the earth turned
soil.