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Tui Poems - Poems about Tui

307 Tui fele esechis Tagoreweb
...Tui fele esechis Tagoreweb Thou art an oblivion in forgetfulness Pondering a wanderer for a long forgotten soul, my soul whence wills met Henceforth, a life passed by within the blink of an ey......

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Categories: tui, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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 thou......

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



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 mor......

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Categories: tui, bird,
Form: Personification
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......

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Categories: tui, seasons, weather,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Albany in April
...From hills and orchard row to the Queen’s chain plume the toetoe, the ponga’s silver gild - in planted grove and fertile dairy plain droved is the fatted calf and the earth tilled. White ......

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Categories: tui, autumn, seasons,
Form: Sonnet



Aroha Nz
...this is my song, my love song of you, my land, my heart love for green ferns silver beneath volcanic lakes so deep ......

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Categories: tui, love,
Form: Free verse
Nz Summer
...Pohutukawa red bristled rain falling Drifts down sienna cliffs floats on azure waves. children swarm, hear the ice-cream van's song calling ......

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Categories: tui, summer,
Form: Rispetto
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 - consisting of soul tuning notes - intricate melodies......

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Categories: tui, bird, song,
Form: Haibun
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
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 you to say it - emotions or will? Your logic... correc......

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Categories: tui, beauty, games, heaven, mystery,
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 well. With a little toil, You can make money from flax s......

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Categories: tui, change,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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 will wild knock Does Death need an invitation for fu......

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Categories: tui, nature, philosophy, violence,
Form: Villanelle
Ad Amore, Ii
...Beatrice Discerno in te come s'agona la libertate onde 'l superno seme da la fatal famiglia vi disclona. Ora viatico non sia teco la spe......

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

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Categories: tui, art, history, time,
Form: Concrete
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 -------------------------------------- Deine Zukunftsträu......

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Categories: tui, on writing and words
Form: Tanka

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