Rivers
Stop
your snivelling
creek - bed:
come rain hail
and flood water
laugh again.
Hone Tuwhare.
Come Rain Hail, Haiku.
More on Hone Tuwhare and his work please visit:
http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/tuwharehone.html
The poem has been referenced from Page 122 Gordon Roberts and Brian Turner "New Zealand High Country Four Seasons."
Photo above from Frank Erceg Archive. Location unknown, could be the Arawata?
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