Oh Holy Night – Tapu te Pō

For you all at this time, I wish you peace and contentment.

And whether you celebrate Christmas or not here is a song I want to share with you. In my opinion it is the most beautiful version of the carol, Oh Holy Night in existence. Here it is sung in Māori. For the information of my readers in other countries ….(Māori: [ˈmaːɔɾi]) are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand (Aotearoa). Māori originated with settlers from East Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of canoe voyages between roughly 1320 and 1350.

Tapu te Pō (O Holy Night)…In this version Marlon Williams is the soloist and is joined by

the  Dhungala Children’s Choir (Australia). Australian  Paul Kelly accompanies him. It is available on Paul Kelly’s record production A Christmas Train. But to watch it on you tube go to link below. You will want to watch it again and again.

 

Arohanui and Meri Kirihimete, Helen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLvkazL0J70

 

 

Tuesday Poem-Hope by Emily Dickinson

Today Monday, I decided to look back one decade to see what I had blogged about at the time. This is the poem I found. What serendipity!. Tomorrow, Tuesday 10th October, is World Mental Health Day. And a day when many are looking for hope and peaceful ways of putting it into action. Read the poem carefully and take much hope from its message.

HOPE

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I ‘ve heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

Emily Dickinson

Helen says…This is what I wrote a decade ago.’ Emily Dickinson’s poems are in the public domain. ‘Hope’ is much known and loved but I like the idea of helping to spread hope on the internet.’

‘Hope’ is poem number six in the second series of Emily’s poetry,  edited in 1891 by two of her friends, MABEL LOOMIS TODD and T.W. HIGGINSON. To read the preface, which gives a great insight into Emily’s writing go here.

We can all do with a good dose of hope at present. May all who read this poem find it anew.

For information about World mental Health Day go here