Categories:
aloha, fashion,
Form: Senryu
Tsunami
Tsunami
Clinging to a tree my might is numb
Teeth chattering, soaked in seaweed I succumb
to the shores of doom, the tides violent surge
Adrift and marooned all owed to a sudden urge
After the party I woke up on a tropical island
Wild rainforest and coconut groves, tailor made in Thailand
The Turtle Island, underwaters heaven
We were seven, gone
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Categories:
aloha, natural disasters, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Plenny an Aloha Prayer
Inspired by John 3:16 and Luke 11:2-4 from "Da Jesus Book, Hawaii Pidgen, New Testament"
God wen got so plenny an aloha fo da peopo inside da world wood hav dis prayer fo us:
“My chillin
Who hav
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Categories:
aloha, god, inspirational love, prayer,
Form: Narrative
An Autumn Aloha
Ever-changing Autumn, its shapes and shades.
Fanning breath stirs the heavily laden;
transforms and redraws like playful charades,
prepping, and grooming, all the misshapen.
A pastor's mural paints pure from trespass,
ever-changing Autumn, its shapes and shades.
Prismatic design grounds tell-tale stained glass
and forest steeples are Redwood's crusades.
Kids taking the plunge, multihued cascades,
succumb to trampling and crushing horseplay.
Ever-changing Autumn, its shapes
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Categories:
aloha, appreciation, autumn, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Quatern
Aloha Lahaina
today’s conch bead lei -
aloha Lahaina &
lokelani rose
nod & prayer from the mainland
grieving your loss, your song heard
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Categories:
aloha, in memoriam,
Form: Tanka
Ko Olina Place of Joy
Picture a tropical paradise - faraway
Colorful leis of fresh fragrant flowers
Worn by hula dancers that sway
Sandy beaches and leisure filled hours
Soft waving palms on a moonlit bay
This island where mountains reach down to the seas
You’ll be filled with Aloha wherever you go
Soothed by the oceans and warm blowing breeze
Each day assures us of a
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Categories:
aloha, happiness, inspiration, race,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Aloha My Friend
*Image of Lewis Milton Hankins
aloha my friend
a bevy of doves
laurels wrestle a whirlwind
fair plumes coronet
~"The Last Token"~03/22/21
weasels and foxes
snow tracks charging the blizzard
freshness soothes the wit
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Categories:
aloha, tribute,
Form: Haiku
Santa Had a Change of Aloha
There's Santa that came to Waikiki bay
On an outrigger canoe Christmas Day
He wore a grass hula skirt
And a large Aloha shirt
His course went astray he opted to play
12/19/22
A Funny Santa Limerick Poetry Contest
Sponsor-Tania Kitchin
3rd
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Categories:
aloha, christmas, humor,
Form: Limerick
Aloha
Hello and goodbye
Forever in between
For a soul’s eternity
Having been seen
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Categories:
aloha, appreciation, death of a
Form: Epigram
Aloha - For Rico Leffanta
I’m not on social media
And yet I have a group
Of buddies I have never met;
I know them from the Soup.
We comment on each other’s poems
And through each varied post,
We learn, in dribs and drabs, about
What matters to us most.
My fellow poets span the globe
And one above the rest
Took time each day to let me know
He’d
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Categories:
aloha, death of a friend,
Form: Rhyme
When the Whistle Blows
When the whistle blows
You combat for your dreams
When the whistle blows again
You retire from your dreams
When the whistle blows for the last time
You have to say aloha
And before the last whistle blows
You have to try your best
So that you won't regret
For the first or the last time in life
Life is so short
It won't
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Categories:
aloha, dream, life, retirement, time,
Form: Free verse
Aloha Weeps
Aloha Weeps
Aloha weeps
In waves of grief
Pounding on a windswept beach
To grieve the loss of gracious footsteps
That gently walked upon its sand
Where the waves that tickled her heart
Now carry a plumeria lei
Beyond the horizon.
Pele mourns
Her adopted child
Whose fiery imagination
Flowed like lava in poetry
To build new lands of inspiration
Child, laughing in pikaki’s fragrant garden,
Slips quietly
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Categories:
aloha, flower, friend,
Form: Free verse
Aloha Also Is Goodbye
*Image of Floor Mat by Etsy.
Aloha also is Goodbye
How do, You do,
(Obama, who?)
Honolulu,
"Gathers," the pro-left best
they stick like cements,
Issues: starved mass,
overcrowdedness;
their gilded penthouse nests
o'er the homeless tents.
2022 August 25
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Categories:
aloha, betrayal, depression, food, poverty,
Form: McWhirtle
Aloha Rico
Aloha Rico
Rico is a fellow soup brotha
Whose limericks are all a goha
With the stroke of his pen
Comes again and again
He’ll then smile and sign off Aloha.
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Categories:
aloha, humor,
Form: Limerick
Aloha Rico
He’s the master of limerick quirks!
He has charmed PS with witty smirks!
His wit, quite dry,
Hits a bullseye,
That is how Rico's wry mindset works!
March 8, 2022
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Categories:
aloha, humorous,
Form: Limerick
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