No Tapu te Ranga ahau | Cameron Grice, Mia Evans, Oriwia Williams, and Jayan Ranchhod

I look around me and I see

fiery colours on the leaf,

ants like a freckle face.

The moss is on the wall;

it looks like my sunflower.

Leaves on the floor like fish in the sea,

moss slipping from the wall.

Sea as blue as the sky,

a green bush like a cave.

Orange fire like an orange bird on fire,

seaweed gliding in the water like fish,

toitoi like bunny tails.

I see a leaf that has the right colours like a rainbow with little lines like cracks in the ground,

and brown bits like water spilt on a map.

Trees everywhere like a person,

diamonds on the floor.

I hear
birds singing like a whistle that blows.