BELOW THE SEA by Irene Swimming below the sea is a fish Combing open the tangled seaweeds And shaking them like the smoke That curls up to the sky.

CENTIPEDE by Valerie Foster (10) A centipede creeps through the grass With long and active nippers It eats the small insects. With six legs on the ground it rears up Then flops down onto the wiwi ground And works the tangled grass Until it comes to another insect. He never moves away until he has devoured that insect ….

A CHAFFINCH by Valerie Sitting on a stalk of grass Is a little bird. A fat bird A pretty bird It's a chaffinch A red and brown chaffinch Why he's eating thistle tops. The parachuted thistle tops.

KIWI VOICES by Irene Matiu (14) I can hear the kiwi's voice Slowly crying out into the dark He walks from out his hiding place out of the ponga He stops and listens to noises that are coming nearer But he keeps walking on the dry tin taraire leaves Soon clatter clatter he runs across the leaves to his hiding place.