10-12-2017, 07:50 AM
Rules: Write a poem for national poetry month on the topic or form described. Each poem should appear as a separate reply to this thread. The goal is to, at the end of the month have written 30 poems for National Poetry Month.
Topic 12: Write a poem inspired by a NZ fairytale, fable, or parable. You'll find them easily but here are a few links.
https://audiobooksnz.co.nz/product/maori...3eb2c69a18
http://eng.mataurangamaori.tki.org.nz/Su...ry-Stories
http://history-nz.org/maori9.html
Form : any
Line requirements: 8 lines or more
The children never returned
from a fishing trip. It should
have been easy, just
placing eel traps
near Koekohe,
so many tamariki went.
Aue! Aue! Big waves
came that day
after the waka
sailed out of sight.
We’ve heard their traps
washed ashore, right along the beach.
They’d be getting dry by now,
cracked.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...years.html
tamariki - children
Aue - lamentation, woe
waka - canoe