Kunai Poems | Examples

Quazune Remembered

With silver eyes, 
scattered,
reminder to  bygone days,
between mountains and river,
our world,
under children's eyes.

In the garden,
stars from water and earth,
the sweetest fruits,
tempting,
bananas and oranges.

The odor of the forests,
the far drifting honey grass,
in the nearby village,
kunai huts and smoke.
coffee in full flower,
like  morning dew.

The  vast Waghi valley,
Kaukau mounds and Kumu.
Protecting Kunaigrass
separating water and mountains.
Pictures from  memory ,
between  coffee and tea plantations

Quazune, my friend,
where did the sky go?
Where is the warmth of the day?
Lost in the thicket of  forest,
whispering loneliness
And birds of paradise
sing their last tunes.

Those wonderful days,
memory of time, like
falling leaves.
Now silent songs.