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A slam poetry performance from a Samoan queen | Daisy Lavea-Timo | TEDxChristchurch


jingim ana
NRO inna allaha wa far johanna seiderman
a qui m’a a Karuma who even a yamaha
Nakia quarter me ho ki ki tamanna
phenoix Tyrolean a a Larkin aitakute a
family tena koutou katoa kawaii are we
to marry Maria culture cannot see her mo
otaku even a more more perilous city
living inhaler tool for tylenol off from
alone angle a well near Melbourne we’re
leaning far my boy fact I love our Thule
podium and mamalu of fear sorrowful time
alpha Tyler falada call a New Zealand
chakra waka call a Viet emo rawa Roja
Anu Oh cooing – oh ho Daisy’s Taku
ignore kata-kata particle korero cotton
amana OT Tonetta
wh AKA ma na spells amana it’s the
indigenous Maori word for empowerment’s
I found mana at my local footy
club beautiful
Bonecrusher she’s the upward outward and
future facing CEO of the heavy hitters
Club see Jersey six and seven they’re
the multilingual and strategic play
makers who Buchan are the rugby ball
from any corner of the field she’s big
on fundamentals wide wat Sangha the
spiritual plus Fernando tena
relationships plus katana collective
action equals bridging our systemic
silos a hadith of Utah it’s a torrent
saketini
he taught a Qatari he taught saketini
because the champion team will always
beat a team of champions right
Amana
is jazz music agile and thought and
creativity she escapes through the
defense agile and action she’s the bold
running it straight up the middle her
synergy so in the pockets she Sprint’s
onto a floating ball hashtag where’s the
one Amana it’s burpees for
breakfast Broncos for lunch
and if 45 Papa Nui for dinner up down
and back ten meters for the hole 18
minutes and when I want to give up like
a mana kneels at the altar where
capitalism and activist and collide and
whispers rhymes through her Nike
megaphone Daisy asked not if your dreams
are crazy but are they crazy enough sis
keep pushing to their dark place
juxtapose there is the light the hum the
flow
in the hum you can see the marathon
finish line in the hum your marshalling
troops into formation and you are
Beyonce all at the same time Amana
is altruistic leaving no man woman or
child in need of a cultural home cocoa
Papa be kind be kind be kind
amana’s k tape sock tape and 3d tape
mummified body shows up every week and I
quickly learned that if it’s and
respects are the only currencies that
meza here and this Rugby League arena
these mana Wahine playwrights of Power
gladiators if you will continue to allow
me to borrow their bravery and wear
their biggest shoes with which to leave
deeper prince sheath that just center to
my Chloe and the Sierra through my
Parris Goebel and it’s time to level up
wh aka MA in a spouse Pokemon ah it’s
the indigenous Maori word for
empowerment I found fucka mana and my
spoken word poetry finds its origins in
many oratory traditions and what I love
about it is that anyone can do it I’ve
taught it sitting on a mat with primary
school-aged kids I feed my students when
I used to teach at Kashmir high school
and even all the way on a marae and
Kokoda with one of the auntie’s and
everyone in between it is first and
foremost an idea your story your truth
that is well written and well crafted
onto a piece of paper upon which we add
this elements of performance Thank You
TEDx for inviting me to share two pieces
their first poems like a manner I once
it’s supposed the question what can
leadership in the community teach us
about partnerships participation and
collective impact did you know that the
word tattoos it’s homology finds its
origins and the root word Pacifica word
satsang SAR to strike zone to finish
Tata to keep striking you can almost
hear the tattooist that’s a former tech
tech tipping to sell bet which is right
balanced and finished now you know where
the word tattoo comes from the stick and
piece I’m going to share as on our
salman max of mana for males it’s a
right than to adulthood
this is called the bitter it’s very
detailed for females ours is called the
Malu which is the unique diamond motif
at the back of Alex and it translates
literally to shade shelter protector and
I wonder if you would be so brave to
share and participate with me in a
little wee Sanborn engagement that we do
every time we get around a campfire
because it’s cold so if you can put your
hands together and rub them like so it’s
Milly
so I’ll say Milly and then I’ll say
boxier which is one flip but yeah but
yeah sorry bout it
and then I’ll say lure putty which is
two claps let’s try that no but see
no Patsy and then we’re going to add
this element of performance in it so
feel free to have your best faces and
sound effects are welcome
so sale or putty tyka and you can do two
clips sound effects and facials are on
know about to take that and then you
know some ones are creative because we
don’t have any in the islands but you’re
gonna go north but see buffalo whoo
let’s try that lower budget Buffalo I
love it here gentlemen in the front and
the final one for all you cool cats out
there nor but sea snake let’s try that
North let you snake let’s take that from
the top and at the end I’m going to
share my second piece like a witch she
is my story of getting my traditional
tattoo Phoenix 2018 millaa millaa millaa
millaa millaa millaa millaa millaa me
Bhatia partying neuropathy neuropathy
neuropathy tight car neuropathy Buffalo
and our chisel has bitten my skin and as
black marks tell this tale of Siamese
demigods singing it’s a tire of a Feeny
I let satire oh sorry
only the woman only the woman get the
tattoo
diving for enchanted Tricia’s the gods
miss the lyrics up and came up singing
it’s a thoughts on a la città Oh for
Feeny only the min only the men get the
tattoo the priest does the worst up
loose around the appia hat my checklist
one Matsuya blow a kiss to death thank
mom for taping crystallises on my tongue
my Salman Nenana gives voice wings to me
offer 10 yards of material pour more
cigarettes and bottles of vodka wrapped
in a duty-free packaging chick
three my hubby is he here
where is he did I bring her are suddenly
serious my game face is sick II and I’m
expiring I mean perspiring just a little
this is it there is no turning back
that’s a full hour walks in with the
swagger of a lead actor takes Alps as
Hollywood kits and lays out his outs are
chisels are you ready
he says handing him the mail offer I not
solo up there is Taika Waititi drian one
actor director and producer motifs
itched and his brilliant mind all he
draws on my thigh the three lines middle
lift writes
breathe in and hope he says and as I
breathe in his support actors stretch my
skin so up it picks up his hammer and
his chisel and he tech tech tips black
lines all the way down he tech tech tips
black lines all the way down the support
actors wiped my blood with the temp
muslin cloth I think of my daughter’s
Hadassah
and detective tips if it’s all stars
tech tip sets warhorse Eagles I breathe
in land and the tech tech tips and we’ll
fare worms and Colusa crosses I breathe
in see Andy Tet Tet Tet’s aloe aloe
jellyfish in a veil starfish the vilely
centipede crawled down the backs of my
knees illustrating service of the past
service of the future service of the
untitled eyeing a church village nation
world it’s all along Luxor they said see
I have not yet met the woman I am
becoming but I know that she stands on
the shoulders of giants
she is the rib cages of Salamis inna
Queens and Nassau no owari as she is
cookie building empires with the hustle
of a beast mode bloodline she is the
great-great grandmother’s of the folly
boooo lying amalfi who it’s otto was
threatened with extinction by
colonialism they scold some cover
blasted some gangster music and stood
with their timing they fought for these
marks of manon fought for these defiant
ticks scripts and testimonies of
nationalism and beauty it’s all old lot
so they said and as he my kneecaps I
understand why if I can handle this I
can handle anything there is no turning
back I have made that sacred covenant
between being Samoan and living someone
I am Malu protector I am Malu shade I’m
Malou shelter I’m Malou shield
I am ma Liu I am a loon I am mum or
Lilla al to my sites are more the adorning of a Salman Queen
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