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Ulu Poems - Poems about Ulu


When the Full Moon Rises
... The night falls, a darkened sky, Stars glitter at me… every second, every time. From the eastern side of my island, we see an eye— A bright, round, dark-yellow eye, Peeking from beneath the cal......

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Categories: ulu, autumn, childhood, culture, joy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Pipe Lines of Kaimu: Much Ado About Poi
...Welcome to a typical 'Luau' spread. The first thing that is best to learn is the Hawaiian word, 'ono', which means, delicious. It's a word bandied about before and after food goes in your mou......

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Categories: ulu, allusion, analogy, appreciation, culture,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Pipe Lines of Kaimu: The Hawaiian Church in Kalapana
...I stood at the top of our dirt driveway looking back at our two-story house. It's kind of a long house where, from our second-floor windows, you can see cars driving on the lane road in our v......

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Categories: ulu, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, christian,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Twelve Days of Christmas, Hawaiian Style
..."Just live a little, Hawaiian style!" Quote by Hawaiian Style Band. On the first day of Christmas, my tutu gave to me, -- (and...) a-*Ne-ne-Goose-un-der-a-gua-va-tree. (guava fruits are t......

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Categories: ulu, animal, bird, care, environment,
Form: Lyric
Night Owls
...Vocal, nocturnal, creepy Silent and sneaky Binocular vision, sharp sight They are active at night We are asleep They are awake Our lives are at stake. "Do not trap yourself into an owl's hooti......

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Categories: ulu, flying, integrity, may, prison,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Tuan Tata: Song of Uda - Parts One and Two
... TUAN TATA : Song of Uda - I by T. Wignesan (Patrick Noone, a British anthropologist, discovered the Ple-Temiar tribe living isolated in the jungle highlands in the State of Perak on the west ......

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Categories: ulu, death, murder, tiger, wife,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Orang Ulu
...Orang Ulu Pronounced Uloo = Collective name for the up-river people of Sarawak Orang Ulu, loping through mottle-green light of the jungle-track, lighter than dawn-mist, nimble as wild-cat. H......

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Categories: ulu, bullying, earth, environment, green,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Tuan Tata: Song of Uda - I
...Part Two shrinking you again within our ruwai though always fearing, always cringeing at the thought of the day when his brothers would come in numbers bearing fire-spitting engines over the sodden ......

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Categories: ulu, fear,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Military Lingo
...'Tis well-known that military blokes speak a lingo of their own, But it has served them well over the years, it has been shown! To a General or a Private, such jargon is totally sensible, But to o......

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Categories: ulu, funny
Form: Rhyme

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