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Reef triggers, up to 30 centimetres (12 in) in length, are fairly aggressive and generally do not tolerate conspecific individuals in their general vicinity; thus the fish is often solitary. This is particularly true in captivity. They have the ability to rapidly alter their coloration.
The line, "Where the Humuhumunukunukuapua'a go swimming by," refers to the reef triggerfish, Hawaii's state fish, by its long Hawaiian name. Poi is a Hawaiian food staple made from taro root. There is one full line in Hawaiian, "Komo mai no kāua i ka hale welakahao," which literally translates to, "Come into our house while the iron's hot."
Kamapuaʻa. This pre-missionary wooden statue of Kamapua'a was found in a cave in up-country Maui. It is on display at the Bailey House Museum. In Hawaiian mythology, Kamapuaʻa ("hog child") [1] is a hog -man fertility superhuman associated with Lono, the god of agriculture. The son of Hina and Kahikiula, the chief of Oahu, Kamapuaʻa was ...
Line (poetry) A line is a unit of writing into which a poem or play is divided: literally, a single row of text. The use of a line operates on principles which are distinct from and not necessarily coincident with grammatical structures, such as the sentence or single clauses in sentences. Although the word for a single poetic line is verse ...
In the Kumulipo the world was created over a cosmic night. This is not just one night, but many nights over time. The ancient Hawaiian kahuna and priests of the Hawaiian religion would recite the Kumulipo during the makahiki season, honoring the god Lono.
Utamakura is a category of poetic words, often involving place names, that allow for greater allusions and intertextuality across Japanese poems. Utamakura enables poets to express ideas and themes concisely—thus allowing them to stay in the confines of strict waka structures. Some scholars [who?] see the use of geographical allusion as the ...
Feud. Estate. Literature portal. v. t. e. Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic [1][2][3] qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. Any particular instance of poetry is called a poem and is written by a poet.
Renku (連句, "linked verses"), or haikai no renga (俳諧の連歌, "comic linked verse"), [1] is a Japanese form of popular collaborative linked verse poetry. It is a development of the older Japanese poetic tradition of ushin renga, or orthodox collaborative linked verse. At renku gatherings participating poets take turns providing ...