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  • That They Might Lovely Be
    • Testimonials
    • Memoirs of Ida Medd
    • Promotional Video
  • Under the Shadow of Your Wings
    • Under The Shadow of Your Wings Act One
    • Under The Shadow of Your Wings, Act Two
    • Under the Shadow of Your Wings Gallery
  • About David
  • Other Work
    • Sermons for Mirepoix
      • Sermons for Mirepoix – 18th November 2018
      • Sermon: Mirepoix 20th January 2019
      • Sermon: Mirepoix 16th June 2019
      • Sermon: Mirepoix 18th August 2019
      • Sermon: Mirepoix 17th May 2020
      • Sermon for Mirepoix 21st February 2021
    • Tales of our Forebears
      • Tales of our Forebears – Princess
      • Tales of our Forebears – Prunes and Prisms
      • Tales of our Forebears – College Days
    • Miscellaneous Poems 
      • Miscellaneous Poems – Per Crucem ad Coronam
      • Miscellaneous Poems – Anniversary
      • Miscellaneous Poems – Epithalamium 10th August 2019
      • Miscellaneous Poems – Epithalamium for LGB
      • Miscellaneous Poems – The Spring at Fontaine-de-Vaucluse
      • Miscellaneous Poems – To Lucy
      • Miscellaneous Poems – China
      • Miscellaneous Poems – The Button Tin
      • Miscellaneous Poems – A Carol
  • Poems for Artemis
  • The Long White Cloud, poems from Aotearoa
  • Stations of the Cross
    • Stations of the Cross – Prologue
    • The First Station: Jesus is condemned to death
    • The Second Station: Jesus takes up his cross
    • The Third Station: Jesus falls for the first time
    • The Fourth Station: Jesus meets his mother
    • The Fifth Station: Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus carry his cross
    • The Sixth Station: Veronica wipes the face of Jesus
    • The Seventh Station: Jesus falls for the second time
    • The Eighth Station: Jesus comforts the women of Jerusalem
    • The Ninth Station: Jesus falls for the third time
    • The Ninth Station: Jesus falls for the third time
    • The Tenth Station: Jesus is flogged
    • The Eleventh Station: Jesus is nailed to the cross
    • The Twelfth Station: Jesus dies
    • The Thirteenth Station: Jesus is taken down from the cross
    • The Fourteenth Station: Jesus is laid to rest in the tomb
  • Behind the Scenes

The Long White Cloud, poems from Aotearoa

We spent a month in New Zealand in 2020, little knowing that, as we flew home, a pandemic was about to engulf most of the world. The poems, collected together as The Long White Cloud, were written in response to the places we visited and the ideas they triggered.

  • Motu Kōkako
  • The Old Horizon
  • Wild Lupins
  • Waimangu
  • Sam Summer
  • The Musician
  • West of Lindis Pass
  • Aoraki
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