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Best Tui Poems

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Te Tui

Kuikui kuku ana
Ou parirau rerehua
Tukuna kia rere
Kia kautere i te Ao 
Hei kaitiaki hei kaiwhakamarumaru
Hei whakaruruhau mo te tira
Hei whakaruruhau mo te Marea...

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Categories: tui, adventure, allusion, bird,
Form: Chant Royal

Lesson For the Liitle Boy Tui

Tui was a little boy, 
With a heart full of joy. 
He loved to play and explore, 
And learn about the world more.

One day, his...

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Categories: tui, blessing, education, teenage,
Form: Rhyme

Demise of the Flax

Before you reach for your axe,
There are some facts you need to know about flax.

A Flax rope made well
Will get you safely out of the...

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Categories: tui, change,
Form: Rhyme

Aroha Nz

this is my song,
  my love song of you,
    my land, my heart

        ...

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Categories: tui, love,
Form: Free verse

Nz Summer

Pohutukawa red bristled rain falling

              Drifts down sienna cliffs floats on azure...

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Categories: tui, summer,
Form: Rispetto

The Book of Changes



"The Book of Changes"

Thoughts arrived before words,
1000s of years before
the crossing of curves

always seen to be 
swimming upstream 
against the current

thoughts … and feelings,
in the...

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Categories: tui, muse, mystery, spiritual, symbolism,
Form: Narrative

Villanelle: the Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 42

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 42

Wrap the self in fear for the dark cloaks the beast
Shut the door on vile thoughts no fear...

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Categories: tui, nature, philosophy, violence,
Form: Villanelle

Ad Amore, Ii

Beatrice Discerno in te come s'agona 
                  ...

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Categories: tui, angel, beauty, blessing, innocence,
Form: Terza Rima

Future Dreams/ Zukunftsträume/ Somnis De Futur (Catalán)/Sogni Futuri (Italian) Sentanka

Your future dreams
Empty paper in your hands
Disguised as desire

Your words written in silence
Until the last sunlight vanishes

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Deine Zukunftsträume
Leeres Papier in deinen Händen
Als Wunsch verkleidet

Deine Worte...

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Categories: tui, on writing and words
Form: Tanka

September Spring

Tui birdsong starts again, melodious warbling 
              bitter southerly wind still bites...

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Categories: tui, seasons, weather,
Form: Free verse

Autumn In Albany

From hills to orchard row to the Queen’s chain
  plume the toetoe, the ponga’s silver gild -
in planted field and alluvial plain
  droved...

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Categories: tui, autumn, seasons,
Form: Sonnet

Haibun

New Zealand's favourite bird is the Tui, also called parson bird for its ruffled white cravat - it is famously noted for various lyrical songs...

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Categories: tui, bird, song,
Form: Haibun

Salvage

Through wisdom and control
fear a reluctant challenger...

Side with me my courage...
All fools banished to oblivion-

Trail blazer mighty warrior...
leading the charge...

heart and soul in formation...
Quill and...

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Categories: tui, art, history, time,
Form: Concrete

Mystery Woman

The mystery woman. What do you say?
And what did you think sending that word away?
Or even before, tell me -  what did you feel?
What made...

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Categories: tui, beauty, games, heaven, mystery,
Form: Rhyme

Wild Birds

The Tui opens his throat and sings
A beautiful sound that summer brings
Welling up from deep within his chest
Bursting forth his joy expressed
He begins at dawn...

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Categories: tui, bird,
Form: Personification