Birthday

• Phoenix Tulimaiau, Grade 5, Beenleigh State School
• Poetry
• 2014

Excellence Award in the 'The Text Generation 2014' competition

My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a watered shoot;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in the sea;
My heart is gladder than all of these
Because my love has come to me.

Raise me a dais of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Has come, my love has come to me.