Long Taro Poems

Welcome to a typical 'Luau' spread. The first thing that is best to learn is the Hawaiian word, 'ono', which means, delicious. It's a word bandied about before and after food goes in your mouth....

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"Just live a little, Hawaiian style!" Quote by Hawaiian Style Band.

On the first day of Christmas, my tutu gave to me,
-- (and...) a-*Ne-ne-Goose-un-der-a-gua-va-tree.
(guava fruits are the best part of their diet--trust me)

On the second day...

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Journey by Ferry on the Celestial Nile
7 Ancient Portal Ascension to Immortality
In a Vessel, The Radiant boat employed to Traverse
the Cosmic Galaxy
On a Quest to seek within the Universe in My Mind
To Re-member Roots Scattered...

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Archetypes flash straight from a pack of Tarot cards
anti-terror Jing Jang synthesis with neuro-spiritual precision
implants explosive animation from the deep unknown
like a taro rootstock growing wings to fly with found suspension

Stereotactic stereotypes archetypes semi-circling soothing...

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African embodied in a birth of a nation,
I do apologize for my lateness in my African time
To the only goddess of Mother Nature in her smell of sweet
Grains of mountainous African mahogany, fruits; mahlatswa, ditshidi.

Picking...

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AUDIO: Song was...

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Inspired by live event
on Ramblas Boulevard, Barcelona

Barcelona… Summer raining night…
Gentle shower sprinkles down the faces.
In the whole world the only light:
It comes straight to me from Spanish Artist spaces.
He is so much tired of hard...

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Behold the beauty!
a bliss! a miracle!
deep in azure cloak,stretching end to end,
at far horizon burns an amber ring,
morphing sleeping sapphire sheet in tangerine ;

harbinger of dawn!

birds rise high,dancing in skies
escorting the soothing rays,chained in feathers,
bathing...

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I am now as old as the days
Of grandma's stories.
But I remember the tales as the boy
Who heard them.
There were songs too,
In ancient tongues.
Grandma sang -
O my old man! You who ate taro root
And died,
Eat...

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Emerald green that shines on
gleaming green jewel bug
Algae green of the serene pond
And there swim the shoveler ducks

Harlequin green from areca leaves pinnate
Softly grins when sunrays gently penetrate
And the dark green on betel leaves
Oh ho,...

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DATE: 27th June, 2022.

POEM TITLE: A Morning’s Play 


In a misty morning simmer,
where droplets run along
blades of grasses in limber
to a game of ‘who grows bigger’
until a splatter rings a song,
a brief play date gone...

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De la croûte à la mie 
Parvient l'essentiel de l'ambroisie;
De la préparation à la fourniture 
Tournoie la belle tournure.

Miettes pêche en poudre, 
Saupoudrées à la surface, 
C'est son coup de foudre
Tout à votre chasse.

Taro, crème,...

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You were 
neither a destroyer
nor a preserver 
like Shelley’s west wind.
You were
a native signal
to harvest the taro and tapioca.
You were
a swing for the shore, 
and my soul too.

You weren’t 
just a parching wind
for me.
My still...

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Betrayal

Stranger looking into me staring in my eyes
hiding the deception in his careful sea of lies

Slowly breaking locks I’d carefully constructed placed around my heart to appear it was hardened

Breaking up my fences pulling down...

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COVID-19 a contagious disease
inherited from SARS-COV-2 borne
a new killer disease, called coronavirus.
Weak immune system, a havoc to your
frail body, exposure can kill anybody.

Quarantine, I’m afraid they’ll force, if I didn’t 
cancel my flight to Japan,...

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after Solomon

Entering the door
After shrouding the porch
With the night of a cold kiss
Darkness climbs the stairs
And engulfs me in its throat
My eyes sink into bottomless sea
With waves in havoc
On which no son of man walks
I...

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There are deep creases in palm of the harried hag’s hand
Her wizen face is wrinkled, freckled, there is a brown spot on her cheek.
She has a surreal expression; her voice is gravelly and ethereal.
her tent...

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