William Charles Lunalilo

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Poetic Form: Free Verse

Inspired: 2024 July 15

Image/Video: Lunalilo composed the song 'Alekoki' which is an approching storm. He was describing Princess Victoria's brothers opposition to their marriage, that later led to her death without ever to have wed. He wrote the song while she was still alive.

William Charles Lunalilo First King, chose by the people Grandnephew of the Great King, as the people vote, was unanimous Next year, King Kamehameha the Sixth died of tuberculosis Hawaiian marriages are coconuts Apple's eye, orchard nigh--girls uppercuts Bees concede and confess Honey is not the best Lunalilo stings in-laws -- blood and guts. Pacific divides paradise from lies, pulpit denies, missionary connives, fleece, devise hoax, and shanghais, The native's supplies for whalers, all dives. At times, pearls for wider eyes, command contrives to control their lives. Kings II & III foresaw their greed, the lands were a need to wed and achieve access was their way to succeed, Lunalilo was short-lived, the people he decreed, as past kings agreed, a land trust deed, 'ere his life concedes.

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