MANA

Mana

And those holy

Sacred spirits will descend

Embodied as the most

Amazing creatures

And wing us out

Of our shells

To make us better humans

Or not humans at all

MANA?

And we need to progress

Carry our arms and armour

Get tougher around the soft spot

Deserve to be rewarded

With a dessert of dialectics or

Better lifeline for our cubs

Gladly retiring from

Own élan vital and lucidity

MANA?

And only some will

Talk to those rooted

Enter those furred

Stop between the breaths

To find no I in a mirror

And definitions only mark

New void in the middle

Of zero significance

MANA

Floating meaning on the surface

Someone’s sinking in the verses

Is there matter in the oomph

Or just a tongue keen to galumph?

MANA

Mana is a word in several Austronesian languages which has many meanings. The concept is especially important in Polynesian cultures, and is a major part of contemporary Pacific Islander culture. The term has also entered the Western academy, where scholars of anthropology and comparative religion have written about it extensively. Finally, modern fantasy fiction, computer and role-playing games have adopted mana as a term for magic points, an expendable (and most often rechargeable) resource out of which magic users form their magical spells.