Tuesday Poem: Dear Ruamoko

I want you to know how much I admire you.

You have to be a male God, right?

All that tectonic testosterone. Looks like

you’ve done some great bad things

but I’m sure you were provoked and besides,

I ain’t lily-white myself. Check out my photo –

how cool are those fangs and the hair style

with the writhing snakes. You might have heard of

our sisters gang, the Gorgons. We did some

neat bad shit before Medusa got her head cut off.

Anyway, maybe when you get out

we could hang and do some stuff –

I’m ace at turning men into stone

which you could use in your rock and roll thing.

Yours immortally

Stheno


Here is another of the Ruamoko (Earthquake God) poems I am writing. Keep an eye out for future Ruamoko poems on this blog and visit Tuesday Poem for more poems this week.