Poetry for Peace Week

Literacy Goals:

• I am learning to make language choices that enable me to express myself concisely/exactly when writing for a particular purpose.

Context: Haiku for Peace Week 2017

Success Criteria- My haiku poem will include:

• Synonyms  for peace in English and te reo Māori.

• Images from nature that connect to my message for peace.
• Simile or metaphor
• Plurals

Haiku Sequence

A mad war rages

Peaceful countries are changing

People are rabid

Cold destruction looms

People fall dead on the ground

Te rongo changes worlds

Poisoning the air

Nuclear bombs starving for death

Everyone wants peace

Like sprayed weeds dying

People want to live longer

Fighting hard for peace

• Arly

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Peace Haiku

One can change it all

Peace is different to War

nuclear poisons mao

War is changing us

greed and hunger isn't a mix

war over comes peace

peace is a place we should kaiao

peace is like sun warm and bright

We should whakaaio

• Poppy

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Peace

Take a look around

What is this world turning to?

Make a difference

Our voice will be heard

We can roar like a lion

Resilience, just try

Spring birth of nature

Plants grow like our love for earth

Peace spread like butter

Stop and stare around

Silence listen, serene breeze

Tepid air surrounds

Restful call, the sea

Tangaroa soothes live souls

Crawls for harmony

Te Rangimarie
Tirohia te titiro
He aha te huri o tenei ao?
Hanga he rereke

Ka rangona to reo
Ka taea e tatou te hamama rite te raiona
Te tautuhi, te tamata

Te whanau whanau o te taiao
Ka tipu nga tipu hei aroha mo te whenua
Ka horahia te rongo kia rite ki te pata

Kati me te tirotiro
Whakarongo, whakarongo mai, he wera reka
Ka karapoti te hau o te taiao

Ko te karanga, ko te moana
Ko Tangaroa te wairua e ora ana
Nga pupuhi mo te pai

• Greanne

Haiku For Peace

Loving and Hatred

Bombing like huge firecrackers

evil cold darkness

War cold as could be.

The smoke as black as rubber.

Could it be easy

The warm sunny days.

millions of smiles to last.

And air as clear as glass.

Lots of Souls were lost

Pakanga is so evil.

But peace takes over.

• Josh C

Haiku Poems

Peace or war your choice

The Hiroshima bombing

Should help you today

Once a bomb has hit

The country will cry and cry

Dead kids on the ground.

A peaceful forest

Now like a meteor, bang

Animals all dead.

Men, women, children

Lying lifeless on the floor

       Families in grief.

• Abby

Peace Comes From Your Heart

Peace comes from your heart

It is learnt and it is earnt

Break it, regret it

Tonight my kindred

Spirit guides them through the mist

Of the cloudy earth

I’ll take the fight tonight

When the wind blows and rain falls

And darkness fills skies

After it all we’ll

Be flying with no worries

Through purple and Puru

-Hakuna Matata- (Uncle Fern)

Haiku For The Times

Hail hitting my face

It's raining doggos and memes

Flowers dripping dew

- Fern

Haiku For Peace

Caves of ice, melted

The shade of the vibrant sun

Darkness flooding us

Dreams slowly faded

Nature falling into parts

Completely dark skies

Howling screams echo

One small voice can make a change

Can you spread the word

Tumanako cleansers the air

Doves circle the morning fog

Love highlights the sky

• Lillie

Hoping for greatness

nguha for peace and for time

Nuclear strife, free world

Lots of people dead

hope for families of dead

For good life ahead

Gruesome bombing deaths

Hundreds of bodies wasted

Like stones on a beach

All those innocents

praying, “please don't drop again”

Rotting deaths in fields

By Noah and Max

War vs Whakaaio

War defeats world peace

Bombs create chaos and death

Peace defeats nguha.

People seek refuge

Rocky hills provide cover

Nature calls for help.                                      

War gives death and pain

Peace brings love and forgiveness

War and peace brings life.

When nature calls out

We ignore what we have done

We talk of new wars.

• Hazel

Overcome War

Breathing frustration

Dignity lies beneath us

Nature our symbol

War never-ending

Liberty soon to be found

Like hideous gorse

Nature is silent

Filling us with unity

Trees leaves whispering

Fighting together

Making us brothers in arms

Whakaaio is here

Ko te raruraru
Kei raro ia tatou te honore
Te ahua o to tohu

Ka mutu te whawhai
Kaore e kitea te waimarie
Ka rite ki te paohu

Ko te Nature te noho puku
Whakakiia ana matou ki te kotahitanga
Ka waiho e nga rakau te mimiti

Te whawhai tahi
Te hanga ia matou he tuakana ki te patu
Kei konei te Whakaaio

• Molly

Whakaaio Haiku

Tūī sings up high

Reassuring me of peace

No longer afraid

Steps are so quiet

Nature overwhelming me

Leaves falling like rain

Trees rise high above

Towering over my head

Blocking out the sky

Quiet, so peaceful

People talk amongst themselves

Speak of past horrors

• Aleece

Haiku

Misty Morning fog,

Like a smokey grey blanket,

Me in it’s embrace.

Flames eating forest,

Forests ablaze for humans,    

Will we bring water?

Doves settle in trees,

Tree leaves petting the white birds,

A symbol of peace.

Guns roar beside me,

Townspeople choke in black smoke,
Is there hope for us?

By Tara.

Peace haiku

Nature at its best

Colors are bright but precise

Amazing, complete

Ignored, then all gone

All that life, all that beauty

Destroyed, still ignored

Past wars still haunt us

Yet we still seek destruction

With more wars to come

Killing, to no end

We drown in a sea of grief

War devouring us

• Mitchell

           Haiku

Sunlight shines above

  Beyond every one of us

    So warm and peaceful   

 

         Dark damp depressed clouds

           Pouring sadness like the wars

             All those hurt people

               Scared afraid clueless

                  Terrifying screams

                     Of the hurtful cries  

                                        

                          Then we pray for peace

                            Cry for the hope and freedom

                                Smile for our future!

                                 

• Summer

War

The mad war is shaking

The countries are raging with fire

Bombs are being dropped

Nature is Kua ngaro

Bodies flying up in smoke

One country changes

Poison in the air

War is taking over peace

Silence is raging

War gives us death, pain

We are talking about wars

Who will invade next

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Te Pakanga

E wiri ana te haurangi
Kei te riri nga whenua ki te ahi
Kei te heke nga perepi

Kua ngaro te Nature
Nga tipu e rere ana i roto i te paowa
Ka huri tetahi whenua

Poaka i te rangi
Kei te kaha te whawhai i te whawhai
Kei te kaha te riri

Ko te Pakanga e tuku mate ana, mamae
Kei te korero matou mo nga pakanga
Ko wai ka awhina i muri mai

• Nyah Reweti

Haiku

Whawhai and destruction.

Engulfing me in its darkness.

While I wait to die.

Whakaaio is no longer

Only death and destruction

The living are gone

Bright sky bursting with

Colour like a rainbow

Drowning the mountains

BBQ on the

Beach with friends and family

Happily talking

• Miko

Peace Week Haiku

Life, love, happiness

Humans are made for loving

We resort to war

Evil ridden earth

Hatred and deceit takes over

A place without peace

Black smoke in the sky

Death in the air, life, nowhere

Haurangi, should be

Egos begging more

How many lives will they take

Peace is pulverised

By Finn

Free Verse

Suffering of the smoke.

Sounds of the bombs smashing onto the ground.

People trying to be in a safe place.

It would always be worse.

On the 6th of august 1945.

People striving to get out of the city.

They never knew it was coming there way.

Years later the burns of the radiation were still there.

The city burst into flames.

Seventy two years ago many people were killed.

Fresh trees and grass turned into kawau tui trees.

They need whakawhiti to replace the city.   

They destroyed the city.  

• Wil

War And Nature

Scary dreadful war

Tearing everything apart

Nuclear bombs killing

Whaiwhai is te patu peace

People are screaming for help

But we ignore that

We forget about war

Instead think of our own tuhinga

Create more problems

When Āhua calls us

We ignore it completely

And stare into phones

A war hurting us

It’s like being hit by desks

Killing us with pain

• Caitlyn

People are dying                              

from the cruel nuclear rain        

 a huge plane up high                       

Cancer is killing

Hiroshima was awful

Nature calls you

People do not care

We forget about nature

Whawhai is gruesome

A mad war rages

We ignore it completely

Killing us with guilt

• cameron

War and Peace

                    Big bombs fall like small  leaves

                 Pain and suffering across the town

                       Chemicals spread like clouds

               Peace, what more could you ask for?

                 Sparkling water and blooming flowers

                               Will peace desist

                       Bombs start to come in tons

                             Cities flee like fleas

                          Millions die few survive

                Bombs drop, the apocalypse starts

                         Peace spreads like moss

      But all good things come to an end some day

• Bradley

We Strive For Tranquility

We strive for tranquility

To be safe

However getting rid of a threat

Will make an even bigger one replace it

Somebody has to write history and it’s story

History of war is always written by the victor

When you destroy something

You will always make something else

Something to replace it

Persian, 100 years, Napoleonic, The World twice, A Cold and more

Wars have sequels

Whether it involves the same countries or not

The next war will always be much worse

War is a mass murder

As people we struggle to be in Kotahitanga

Greed, jealousy, pain, it’s felt by all

Green grass, fresh trees, Growing flowers

Wiped out by a new cloud

Eternal peace?

Impossible

• Josh R

Nature’s Voice

Nature calls for help

Peace is what everyone needs

War and peace brings life  

Wars just keep going

Nuclear bombs starving for death

Everyone dropping

Take a look around

What are we turning into

Let's make a difference

Nature’s gone silent

The lofty mountain calls out

We talk of new wars

• Keisha

The night is freezing

Peace flies by and war stays here

Sadness is in the air

The day is boiling

Families celebrating

Peace, love and freedom

Fighting for their life

At war fighting for freedom

Together frightened

Reunited back

All sacred and overjoyed

Safely together

• Zoe

Bomb’s dropping quickly,

a lot of people dieing,

Hurray wars over!

Poma dropping down

Whawhai are people shooting

Japan's going fast

Big Nuclear weapons

Toxic Gas getting breathed in.

Explosions are big

Peace to Japanese

Rebuild a whole new city
Loud Bells made of coins.   

• Ryan   

War & Peace

He is an evil sorcerer he is walking along our lands.

He is satan himself.

He kills all that is good in this world.

His riched stench burns all types of nature.

He is the devil he can turn good men into evil titans.

He is the destroyer of worlds the end of all life.

Can you guess who he is. War/Nugha

She is the goddess of life herself.

she protects the living.

And stops the wars.

She is the stand she is the rebellion.  

She is the green the blue and the yellow too.

Can you guess who she is. Peace/Whakaaio

• Gage

Haiku

Peace we wish to have

Sadly whawhai, death we get

Lifes, love gone to waste                            

Bombs dropped everywhere

Dark black smoke colours the sky

And lots are dying

We do not want war

We want peace and to be free

From the disaster

We do not like war

So we really want world peace

And to be war free

• Jack