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InteGRATion into
GRATeFULLness
Singing&Sounding keeps me Sound
Po Kare Kare Ana
A Maori Love Song
[not completed]
| 2007_03_20 Po Kare Kare Ana |
The same
man from New-Zealand who in 1978 taught us the song Awake, awake, and to which I adapted Biblical texts, also taught us this Maori Love Song, I love the song and sing it often, but until now I never knew what the words meant. In 1997 I adapted to it a Hebrew poem by Yehuda Halevi |
This is
what I now discovered on
the Internet: Pokarekare Ana Soldiers ditties, composed in about 1914 and arranged by P. H. Tomoana in 1917 This love song arose in the north of Auckland at the start of World War One. It then drifted to the East Cape, where it was modified into an action song telling of Paraire Tomoana's 1912 courtship of Kuini Raerena. It is now known and sung world-wide. |
| A New-Zealand Version |
The English Malel-Choir |
My own singing, based on a midi-tune |
Pökarekare ana ngä wai o Waiapu, Whiti atu koe hine marino ana e. E hine e hoki mai ra. Ka mate ahau 2 I te aroha e. Tuhituhi taku reta tuku atu taku rïngi, Kia kite tö iwi raru raru ana e. Whati whati taku pene 3 ka pau aku pepa, Ko taku aroha mau tonu ana e. E kore te aroha e maroke i te rä, Mäkükü tonu i aku roimata e. |
Footnotes: 1. Ngä wai o Wai-apu is Tomoana's 1917 East Coast variant. The original 1914 Northland version was probably Ngä wai o Hoki-anga. And ngä wai o Rotorua is a popular tourist variation. It flows better, and the 'r' and 'o' sounds are pleasant. [Link to Rotorua details] http://folksong.org.nz/pokarekare/index.html#Roto
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They are agitated the waters of Waiapu, But when you cross over girl they will be calm. Oh girl return to me, I could die of love for you. I have written my letter I have sent my ring, so that your people can see that I am troubled. My pen is shattered, I have no more paper But my love is still steadfast. My love will never be dried by the sun, It will be forever moistened by my tears. |
2010
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2010_04_11
- Mika's Heaven on Earth Since August 1, 2009, I employ song-page after song-page for documenting and exploring the evolution of Mika my youngest grandchild, whose assignment seems to be: to demonstrate to humankind by her own living and doing, how to playfully create from moment to moment "zest-fully and full-filled" [see previous composition] |
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"....Manifestation is meant to be
a playground
where being and doing are fun..."
[Godchannel,
Second Interview with the Folks]
Since Mika's thread has reached
SongGame 2007_03_17,
I've been creating a more comprehensive composition than before:
Not only a sculpture made up of Mika's personal, individual being ~ playing
~ living
but a composition of the major experiences of her family -on this planet -at
this time.
This will include scenes in the recent past, from Immanuel's album [since
2010_01_01]
and relevant e-mail quotes from Abraham
or quotes from other nourishing
sources.
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Daily e-mail quote from "Abraham" (2002) on April 28, 2010 You cannot judge the value of a life by its quantity. It is by the joy that you are feeling. The more joyful you are, the longer you live. Let yourself relax and breathe and be free and be joyous, and romp. The optimum physical life experience is to have plenty of things that stimulate you to desire, and an awareness of the way you feel, so you're reaching for thoughts that feel good-- so you're wide open, so you're tuned in, tapped in, and turned on. We promise you, the timing of your death is always chosen by you. |
Purim, first as an Indian woman (Febr. 22, 2010), then - for kindergarden - as a pirate woman (Febr. 26)
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Daily e-mail quote from "Abraham" (2001) on May 8, 2010 If you have a subject that makes you uncomfortable when you think about it, it means there is strong desire related to it. Which means it really, really, really matters. So finding a way to think about it and feel good is your work. But it is equally effective to think about anything else and feel good, and let it in. |
Again Immanuel goes out into Nature with his bike
(Febr. 22, 2010), this time on the special biking-tracks around Kibbutz
Be'eri.
Hearing this name, I very fondly remember Rami Haruvi, one of my angels on
the abyss at the
beginning of Succah-in-the-Desert.
Thanks to Rami there is up to this
day the "bell-tower", made of empty oxygen-bottles, which,
when hit by a stick, call guests to meals.
Rami Haruvi's belltower in 1990
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Daily e-mail quote from "Abraham" (2001) on May 9, 2010 There are no happier people on this planet than those who decide that they want something, define what they want, get hold of the feeling of it even before it's manifestation, and then joyously watch the unfolding, as piece by piece, by piece it begins to unfold. That's the feeling of your hands in the clay. |
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Continuation of Mika's
"Heaven-on-Earth" , in March 2010, on the Song page of March
21 , 2007 |