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Breeze
It was just a breeze
Or was it?
Come and gone
Cooling, easing
Lifted, carried me
To a world now known
Hurt, pain and tears
In a bottle, they collect
Now hardening
Like a stone
On which I stand
Balanced, stepping forward
It breezed again
But the door’s shut
No turning back
By Notuda-Kaera John
Road to Matalau
Save me from this warkurai
Clothe me with your dignity
A gambler I’ve lived by taking chances
Everything I’ve touched has turned to gold
Yet everything I’ve loved has walked away
I’m a dice rolling from my own shaking hand
My own display of dots betrays me
I appear at the final crossroad with no memory
The earth beneath my feet bury the history
You’re in my arms again
And heaven waits to exhale
In the little chapel at the village edge
The words of another sage
Resonates through the sacred air
Every lie I’ve ever told
Is replayed as I pronounce another vow
On bended knees I prayed for companionship
On this road I chose to walk
By David Soroda
Change
The winds of change are here
My heart all but drear
Days are full of surety and doubt
Life must go on with clout
Decisions left unmade
Response my heart evades
Life can be so obscure
Especially when one can never be sure
They say one’s past makes their future
But if the past was sad blue
I wonder what that would make you
A sad and lonely person, for sure
They say people change
The bad and the good exchanged
Some for the better
Others for the worst
Do changes make one true,
Honest, kind and pure?
Or is the same person underneath
Waiting to resurface from beneath
The winds of change constantly shift
The simplicity of childhood but swift
Another decision yet to make
I must be sure, for my future’s sake
By Stephanie Awinup
Those seafaring Anuki
No one knows
How the Anuki came to Ribua
Rumor has it they were partners
To Noah in building sea vessels
They sailed wide and unknown seas
Bringing with them Aisa, surviving
Sister of Anuki, and those
Famous Anuki Tablets
On which were written
The very laws
That govern us today
They made Pem and Tototo
Their final land of promise -
Yet, they number but a few hundred
A sad phenomenon that makes
Linguists declare that Anuki
Is one of the endangered languages
Of the world today
Once, when the world was young
A certain man was paid millions
To cause havoc in Pem and Tototo
To which the Gaesasara sent out
The following order:
“People of Anuki and Are
Look after Aisa and her clan
Keep our vabu namona
I trust you will save us all.”
By James St Nativeson
 
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