Year 8 are doing poetry from other cultures, and one of them is written by the Fang Tribe of Africa (http://www.africaguide.com/culture/tribes/fang.html).

HYMN TO THE SUN

The fearful night sinks
Trembling into the depth
Before your lightning eye
And the rapid arrows
From your fiery quiver.
With sparkling blows of light
your tear her cloak
the black cloak lined with fire
and studded with gleaming stars-
with sparkling blows of light
you tear the black cloak.

AFRICA TRAD.
FANG TRIBE

My students have been writing their own poems, where the night is the warrior, and then their models. Here is one of Jon James Ashcroft’s: