Playing Games with an Ancient
...I returned home after forty years to my home island of Hawaii. Its preferred nickname is the Big Island, lovingly a.k.a., the Orchid Isle, and yes, a.k.a., the Volcanic Island. Rightly named ...
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Categories:
leilani, analogy, anxiety, change, courage,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
New Fishing Buddy
...Leilani Rose
Aquarius
Nearlt born on my birthday
Loves to smile
And make people laugh
We weren't expecting you
Opened a card from your Mamma
On Father's Day
While I was golfing in Idaho...
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Categories:
leilani, addiction, baby, birthday, father
Form: Free verse
Edward Hyde's Sanctuary
...ACT I
Night enters. Ned Sandy: paralysed in eye by gun shot.
Scene: Mannequin with rotting limbs “Deadman on the Freeway.”
And instead of being the good guy, he’s good, bad, worse.
Why kil...
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Categories:
leilani, poetry,
Form: Free verse
To My Cousin Yolanda, a Dedication
...Y_My Cousin Yolanda has a yearning and yen for a loving life!
O_She's a vivid example of optimism with a sparkling attitude, no strife.
L_Lovely as the sweetest, most fragrant Leilani.
A_She has b...
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Categories:
leilani, cousin, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Leilani - Heavenly Flower
...Leilani was a little island child
as lovely as the bud that she first saw
in spring where it was growing in the wild.
She loved to visit it, and then with awe
she noted its unfolding ...
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Categories:
leilani, child, sad,
Form: Sonnet
Blue Leilani
...lush blue syringes
filled with caked on pus
she is not a mannequin
nor a living doll
nor dead space ajar.
She likes to stare
at the backs of her hands
as if at any moment
they would mutate in...
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Categories:
leilani, addiction, blue,
Form: Free verse
About Me
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Leilani
careful, careing,
understanding, lovable
Who loves with her heart not her mind
Who feels pain in the most painless times
Who needs nothing except the love of her father
Who ...
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Categories:
leilani, character,
Form: Free verse
Last Night I Dreamt
...LAST NIGHT I DREAMT
Today it is stormy outside
thunder, lightning even cold hail preside
cozy and warm against tempestuous weather
once again my thoughts crowd together
I choose to acknowle...
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Categories:
leilani, adventure, angel, dream,
Form: Dramatic Monologue