The Museum hosted a night to talk about the power of poetry, the call of the forests, the stir of climate change and the reminder of cultural heritage on Friday evening.
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Guest speakers included Dr. Leasiolagi Malama Meleisea, Reverend Ruperake Petaia and Fa’ainu Latu.
“When Lumepa contacted me for this presentation I couldn’t quite make the connection of poetry as important as a Museum Talk about the subject of climate change or global warming,” said Reverend Petaia.
“Actually the mention of the world museum connotes antiquity and a thing of the past so to speak, and I believe climate is neither exactly a thing of the past nor is it a display of historic moment to be admired now or even as we conjure up nightmares about a very unlikely future of utopianism.”
However Nicholas Smith in a write up on the subject of poems about global warming suggested that poetry is a creative way of expressing feelings about a variety of topics, including global warming.”
“I believe a scientist/expert of the topic shall be speaking later on in the programme, on the more technical scientific definition of global warming and particularly its undesirable effects on our physical environment.”
“I am just a poet and a Faifeau (writer/ servant), so I’ll concentrate on the emotional and perhaps the spiritual, the abstraction of thoughts and inner feeling of the soul and the hearts of human beings as experienced by poets, about the effects of human activity on our environment, the rain and the rainbows, sunshine, moonlight, twinkling stars, the air we breathe that labours behind the scene, to enrich the soils that all life so much depends.
“As quoted in their invitation, Robert Louis Stevenson said that ‘It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.’
Mr. Fa’ainu Latu also spoke on the effects of climate change in the world and its impact on the Pacific including Samoa.
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