Feature Poem
Black Ferns - By Vane Graham Ihe – 31/07/2022
Primary and immediate years. Being spurred on by support like candlelight angling around
There’s a star in you, just glittering to be found. The minute you’ve just skipped in, sparkles the school’s magical ground. Take wairua [spirit] by the hand, let a nation of smiles warmly expand the Aupiki cup,
Aupiki cup, the spoils plentiful and pleasing, flow long and freely into the shadow of the night. From sheer delight as you wake up you can see Aupiki is shimmering from the twinkle of living daylight.
Black ferns here you come, hooray to yesterday, super rugby mounts up for its rosy new day. From the toes to where beats your heart and from the split second you start, never let the dream of you and the fern slip apart.
Cease the moment from momentary, inches away from stardom. The black fern never withers, the jubilant call unravels the day they pull on the fern, dancing and all.
Now is the hour, memorable are the 15 ferns ready with their grips in black, they wittingly assemble soon. Like sister, like cousin, from all from whizzes of a genius. Let their off-loads, cleverly resemble. The try of your dreams, heals a dreamless scar and a ferns jazzy glow, shines upon the gleam of tomorrows star.
Smithy dazzles them with a little light by a careers end, you ought to be stunning and bright. From Smith, he sees every new fern wonderfully and tearfully without a blemish in his sight
Ferns friends for life so giving and gentle as they shone in all your sweetest ways, friends for now and evermore that’s where your loyalty forever stays
30 years go flying by, like a sweet melody to your ears, hearing each other’s lovely call
In your tears of caring aroha and all is in the waiata you share. A fern says the timeless memories will never leave you, for the rest of your fondest days.