Shooting Star by Daren Kamali

Tonight a shooting
star
kissed my lips


Its bright spark
shone in my eyes
reflecting love
from the lover in me
My face could not hide
such vulnerability
connecting
affection through my writings
to reality


Tonight a shooting star
kissed my lips






Posted with permission from Daren Kamali
Editor this week: Michelle Elvy











Daren Kamali gets around. A poet of Fijian, Wallis/Futuna

He Has Superpowers by Daren Kamali

(for Munro te Whata)

He�s an unsung superhero
in the village

He can fly
breathe underwater
walk on hot lovo stones

No one knows his secret
except his soulmate
Duna
Grandmother Eel
who lives on the reef

He visits Duna on moonlit nights
when everyone is sound asleep
he swims out to sea

They talanoa about ancestors
and Vu
good and evil
ancient times

He wished he lived in those days
he would