Long Mauna 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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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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Famed gold crepuscular rays angling down
Knifing in between, through volcanic haze 
Hualalai and Mauna Loa’s crowns
Fire Goddess Pele greets fresh island day

Fuchsia blooms explode, steal attention
Pollens mingle on zephyr coastal breeze
Hallowed entry, this tropic dimension
Surf...

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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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*Image of Mauna Kea Hilo Bay by Big Island Now.

*Hilo Town, Now and Then

Signs of
     Store Closed
          or Out of Business
 ...

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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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Mother Nature’s Plan

Climate changes are everywhere
Hawaii is one place getting its share
Volcanoes, snow, hurricanes too
Mother Nature is showing her force through and through.

Madam Pele is showing us whose boss
I just hope it's not a terrible...

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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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Dawn's diamond dew drops delight
As cooler autumn air descends
Upon the tropical trees in dappled sun
Where wild piglets run, free to forage

Down below the snows of Mauna Kea
Where the rain forests reign supreme,
Where bird songs echo...

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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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**A lesson offered by the poet in me I've seen,

The lee sides (leeward) of mountains are where the winds parts upwards,
And the warmth of the earthen mound, extends outward becomes trapped,
Within the grasps of escaping...

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

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