Tùì

Tùì, tùì
scrapes and squawks

drags sounds
from a box

checking out the different noises
that can work as tùì voices

Mary Cresswell


Note: Tùì are wonderful imitators.  A tùì at the Mount Bruce Wildlife Sanctuary in the 
Wairarapa can reproduce a few words of human speech.  There have even been reports 
that tùì can imitate the rings of cell phones!

Rain

I like the straight-down,
Silky rain,
The fat, warm drops
Of summer rain;
But not the sideways,
Driving rain,
That stinging, sharp
Midwinter rain.

		Bill Nagelkerke
Road Victim

You survived,
somehow,
against all odds …
the men, machines,
the tumbling logs;
the fires, the cats,
the stoats, the dogs.
So why,
oh, why,
did you tempt fate
and cross the road
to find a mate?

		Glenys Brown

The Swimming Rock


Summertime rock 
In the middle of the river 
Is what we swim to 
Cling to 
Jump from and sing to
Swimming-time rock

It's our rock 
Round and smooth 
We slip from it 
Slide from it 
Slowly we glide from it 
Into cool water

Holiday rock
Waiting in the water 
We jump on it 
Bump on it 
Climb up and thump on it 
All summer long

Summer's end rock 
"Goodbye!" 
We cry to it 
Fly to it 
Sing to it, sigh to it, 
"See you next year!"

Vanessa Proctor


