Foreign Vogon Poetry
...Sopheceles studs chorale the Martyrdom call 'ems
ant-chant Thyme dash and Cheyenne bled-cles
and Mud Squadrorns dove colorblind
Link on-a-role spiked with trail and errs past
Prosed...
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Categories:
kamehameha, imagery,
Form: Vogon Poetry
William Charles Lunalilo
...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 ...
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Categories:
kamehameha, appreciation,
Form: Clerihew
Pipe Lines of Kaimu: The Hawaiian Church in Kalapana
...I stood at the top of our dirt driveway looking back at our two-story house. It's kind of a long house where, from our second-floor windows, you can see cars driving on the lane road in our v...
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Categories:
kamehameha, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, christian,
Form: Narrative
Communing With Trees
...Under a dark sky and a glistening half moon
I walk quietly, lest I awaken the sun
As I and the trees silently commune
Melding in the energy of the universal One.
Majestic royal palms that stret...
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Categories:
kamehameha, environment, inspiration, nature,
Form: Rhyme
From Maui With Love
...America had a King
and we all know his name
He wasn't king in England
and he wasn't king in Spain
He ruled with in our borders
And with majesty he did reign
King Kamehameha
He was known by his...
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Categories:
kamehameha, allusion,
Form: Blank verse
Cliff
...*Image of Pala au & Nanahoa by Historic Hawaii
AUDIO: Couplet read
VIDEO: Unique Okala Island Off Monumental Cliffs of Moloka'i
Cliff
Cliff's supply the bemused aback.
Amassed ...
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Categories:
kamehameha, imagery, nature, paradise,
Form: Couplet
The Great Mahele
...*Image of Hawaii State Flag & State Motto/Seal by Pixabay.
The Great Mahele
The Hawaiian islands were overwhelmed,
In the year eighteen hundred forty-three,
Ha...
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Categories:
kamehameha, america, conflict, england,
Form: Sonnet
Waimea Bay
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On the northern shore of Oahu is Waimea Bay.
Anyone can get there via the Kamehameha Highway.
The surf there is what only the bravest surfers will try.
Waves are known to crest as much a...
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Categories:
kamehameha, america, travel, vacation,
Form: Rhyme
Kamehameha the Great
...Kamehameha The Great
Kamehameha the Great King
Banded the islands by taking,
Foreign ills brought us mass killing,
Now takers are law-abiding.
Kamehameha viewed himself as being ...
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Categories:
kamehameha, irony, parody, power, satire,
Form: Clerihew
The Enchanted Pali
...Let me pass under the tunnel of trees
While shrouded in mist in tropical breeze.
Let island mysteries slowly unfold
As customs remain from centuries old.
Let me rise up to the Pali so rare
As ...
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Categories:
kamehameha, culture, history,
Form: Couplet