Inside Middle Earth: West Coast Nikau Palms

For me, nikau palms are an essential NZ (aka “Middle Earth” from the Lord Of The Rings films)—& NZ West Coast—image.

So much so, that they characterize my poem, Songs From The Sea:

“Songs from the sea sighing

in beneath the spindrift to the land’s

curve, lying long beneath green bush

where the nikau palms stand sentinel

all along that shining margin

between sea and land…”

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