Long Loa Poems

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...

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*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 jaws sink as all stand back,
tourist gawks, at paired land splendors.
First; mountain...

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Atacama, Eden der Winde,
Blume der einsamen Steine und des Salpeters, 
Heimstatt der Flamingos und der Geysire,  
und  über allem, 
unter einem azurenem und tiefem Himmel 
tragen die Berge auf ihren Spitzen  
das...

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Atacama, Eden of winds,
flower of abandoned rocks and of sapleter,
homestead of flamingoes and geysers,
and above all ,
below an azure sky,
mountains are carrying on their tops 
ice of the past.

Old villages tell us their stories,
Toconce, Toconao,...

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Vacation Contest
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The sweet fragrance of tall palms swaying in the breeze, 
brought  continuous harmony into our hearts,
The smell of contentment spread as far as the eye can see,
This was our anticipated honeymoon,...

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Majestically they've stood since time had its start
rising on a cartographer's global elevational chart
Mountain ranges, wondrous works of God's creation
that eyes have beheld for centuries with fasination

Come along with me on this adventure as my...

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I am ...

I am the black shine of a dead stare
      I am the reticent pallor of the moon's caste
         and the...

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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...

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PoetrySoup may need to re-think how it allows writers to act as unelected Tyrant of POETRY here. July Morning reads one item, & wants to dictate how I may think, write, worship .... Are we...

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Work in Progress
Mauna Loa Volcano & Kilauea Sister Volcano

The political and spiritual symbolism of Mauna Loa’s historic eruption
“We’re seeing new land, new geographical features being born right in front of our eyes, and there is...

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Atacama, edén del viento,
flor de piedras solitarias y  del salitre,
hogar de flamingos y de géyseres,
y sobre todo, 
bajo de un cielo azul y profundo
llevan las montañas sus copas de
hielo y nieve en el ritmo...

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The Front Window Cogitation
By Sy Roth

Observed the others drowning in their tears.
A pasty rain inks the front window
Sad remnants of a broken sky in Kandinsky splashes 
Marked on an ancient, bubble-blown glass. 

Outside cars distorted,
People...

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Long have me feet walked..bare upon de earth of mother Afreeca.
Days, passing in a flow’r chain round de brow of de morn.
De sacred drum calls wid de heart beattin of de Hougan’s soul
Afreeca’s soul ...

Long,...

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*Neighboring Mauna Kea has been sleeping for centuries, but notice the red flows popping and flowing in the gray areas below Mauna Loa's actual summit. Those are rift zones that pave through gray areas untouched,...

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I want to say thank you
In some of the languages of the world
To all the soup members
For you have helped my heart to twirl
You've add bits of humor, rhythm, and definitely some rhyme
From writings on...

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Oh DEER, You again….


At the crack of dawn
Outside my bedroom window
Unexpected noise?   Chewy, crunchy, crumbly
……I’m trying to sleep

Oh dear!  deer is staring at me 
     fearlessly

Uninvited guest crackling...

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Let's give a big shout out to all those parasites out there 

vile and creepy 
full of doom 
entering at night 
by the light of the moon 

slyly scoot across the room 
nails click on...

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”... Seven dimes placed and a penny in my shoe…”
The law of attraction works really quite well
Undeniable secrets of long ago
Modern understandings prove to know
Better mixed up what the Bookie was to show.
”....Times a changin’......

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IF   ONLY   WE   COULD


If only we could hold the steady  
Pulses of time through the earth,
So likely to stop at any moment.

We’d calmly plant marigold and pansy beds,...

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O Sierra Loa, the mountain of lions
A land of thy free, O native land.
A symbol of God's majestic hand
A nation so small yet peaceful and grand.

Beneath your ever clear sky
Merry mountains and gay valleys lie.
Home...

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Dear Soup Members,

Carol's list of winners is much too long for me to comment on individually, but I am 
reading each of your winning poems I may have missed and I want to congratulate all...

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A place of 7000 islands
and natural beauty,
know as
Pearl of the Orient.

Images lovely to behold,
a rich and diverse history,
of pearl diving and much more.
History tells of, 
The Pearl of Loa Tzu,
and his discovery of 
a huge...

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Kyd my cat played hooky from giddy-up to whoa
                          ...

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