January 2023 augured significant changes, and I am not disappointed so far. January arrived like the gust front of a thunderstorm. My life was put-putting along for a long time like the Model T Ford my father drove when he was young. Then, suddenly, I’m driving a hypersonic car with an exciting future in view. What a perfect moment to launch my poetry website and start a blog.
When I was 17, I dreamt about a civilisation in New Zealand some 50 to 100 thousand years ago. Flying cars zipped through the air in multiple vertical lanes, all stopping dead at some high-rise floating ‘traffic lights’ before proceeding at mind-boggling speed. This dream was long before the film The Fifth Element, by some 20 years. I have never forgotten the dream and often speculate whether it was about a hidden past – and the future. I’m not alone in my musings. About a year ago, I spotted a car in Te Aroha with a beautiful futuristic painting depicted on its side. It summed up perfectly my vision of the future, and here it is with the blog.
Such a world hasn’t arrived literally, but I can feel its formation figuratively in the first stirrings, a sense of elation, movement, and increasing spiritual and intellectual freedom. Where thought goes, energy flows.
Welcome to my new Poetry Website and my blog, The Nest.