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Short Tui Poems

Short Tui Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Tui by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Tui by length and keyword.


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



September Spring
Tui birdsong starts again, melodious warbling 
              bitter southerly wind still bites 
              sleet, horizontal and cold, flattens the daffodils
sudden rays of bright warm sunshine 
race over paddocks
              vivid green grass juxtaposes clear blue sky
Earth warms...

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Categories: tui, seasons, weather,
Form: Free verse
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 with throaty trill
Greets the morn in unrestrained thrill 
Singing all day with nary a care 
Right until darkness in the still night air 
The personification of freedom is he... 
A lover of life living wild and free...

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Categories: tui, bird,
Form: Personification

Book: Shattered Sighs