A Terrible Matriarchy translation.

trumpet in tunnel sound not light magnified brutally like when man first created music out of raw sounds like that primitive backward sounds those hewn out innards of earth spewing forth broken chords choking like a man's rasping sound trying to get out through unsmooth passages a hacking a racking throat æsophagal. Poem by Easterine Iralu

There was a moon over Stavanger a great bright moon Stavanger mooncity The moon chased me down the highway and into every city lane until I cried, "Stop, Stop You're frightening me now," he laughed then, and knelt down to do the laces on his shoes Stavanger mooncity. Poem by Easterine Iralu

For the Tenyimia people, stories and poems are considered the carriers of culture. Thus a great deal of effort is put into handing down the stories and poems in the right manner. The stories teach right behavior and contain moral lessons for the young. The poem-songs are more poetic and idealistic. Almost all of the Tenyimia poem-songs have a story behind them which a poet-singer will explain as he introduces his song especially if it is not a familiar one. Tenyimia poems are always written to be sung or chanted, hence the reference, poem-songs. If we examine the content of an oral poem-song, we will see that it carries a great deal of cultural information. See Nagaland Page for more..