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Ka-‘ula-o-ke-ahi

Karen Jones

I am Pele:
Destroyer,
Creator,
Queen of the fearsome volcano.
Goddess of flaming hair,
and eyes that burn the land,
I shape this sacred place.

White tropic birds
nest in steaming walls
around the crater of fire
where my spirit dwells.
Its molten lake I command
to ravage every space.

My hot heart awakens,
my sulpher breath poisons the air.
Lava spews from my jealous throat.
Raging, violent,
the ground quakes.

My fiery river
ignites a path to the sea,
burning great forests.
Steam clouds rise under sunset sky;
red roaring fountains
explode over water, black waste.

There, wind and water
round my forged crystals
to shining pearls.
They spill from sculpted precipice
and gather into green sands,
sifted by endless waves.

There, with my sea sister,
I bring forth,
sparkling in the sun,
a billion black diamonds
where sea turtle hides her eggs,

and cliffs
where the black seabirds
play and dive over sapphire waves
crashing constant
against my wild embrace.

I am Pele:
Destroyer,
Creator;
I shape this sacred place.

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