- A poem, a story, and a challenge
- Pieri Wor, the Hatohobei State Song
- Old
Tobi fishing song from Peter W. Black's Fishing
Lore of Tobi (1968).
This song was dictated to Peter W. Black by Patricio Mohotimoh and translated by Felix Andrew.
- W.H. Goodenough
has given us permission to post two
poems in Chuukese & English—
Waasééna, Drift Voyager
Ikenen Wúkúnné, The Fish of Sufficiency
These poems are from Sonnets from After Middle Age and Other Verse (Haverford, PA: Goodenough, 1997). Ward noted that Fish of Sufficiency was written to commemorate the work of the committee convened in Chuuk in 1972 to decide on the orthography to be used in the Trukese-English dictionary. When he recited it at the closing festive meal, he indicated that Wúkúnné (sufficiency) meant that wúkúkún aach angaang epwe nénnéén aach mwechen (the extent of our work will be the equal of our desire).
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