Long Tiki Poems

Lisa and I had a party to hit-up. I can’t stay inside all the time, not on a Friday night anyway and a rooftop is the perfect place to mull over big questions and get...

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Serenade Me, Julius La Rosa

His striped tie has a green tint color 
And his hands are dark and bulging with blood. 
I can see them gripping the steering wheel like parrot talons. 
I can see...

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Two Aloha-shirted Hawaiians 
of generous girth were strumming 
their ukuleles 
on a small stage in front of the hotel’s poolside bar
in the late afternoon, 
rehearsing for the night’s performance. 
It must have been the low...

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I remember the land of drums I was born
  bedded beneath great hanging nets;
          the sound of the conch and the horn.
My blue suitcase filled...

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We stood on a beach of white sand, on a beautiful tropical isle.
I held my daughter's hand in mine. We shared a knowing smile.
There were no words spoken. We knew what was left unsaid.
Our voices...

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Beachfront resort, gloriously soothing palms, a sunlit heavenly warm loving paradise.
Vacation dream, enhanced by sweet friendship of Grandma Lil, who gives advice.
That does not have to be followed, as she does not care, she throws...

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and don't say no......i'll bet you if i had asked you to wrte me a poem about the beauty of a 
mother with a nest of eggs,but make it as funny as you are capable...

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Is it truth, is it fruit, unspoiled?
           Filtered news under play kitchen hard boil?

           Unproofed,...

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Like an upright bowl 
the moon hangs filled 
with starry light

sparkling in your eyes 
Stained glass celestial orbs 
consume the night sky

beings of mercy swim 
in poisoned clear blue waters 
I've watched the death of innocence...

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The faith in our Democracy
Was almost lost most shamefully,
When losers made their foolish claims
And railed against imagined blames.

The lap dog trogs obeyed the call
To challenge what was clear to all;
That voters cast their ballots free
And...

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Three days late,
and a dollar of truth short
No condemnation of neo-Nazi hate,
no negative KKK report
Only tweet silence was heard ... 
didn’t hear a peep, not one word
Domestic terrorists
were Tiki torching a church
late that night
Shouting ethnic...

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My dream holiday on an Island so far away
I’ve wanted to go there for many a day

‘Kon-Tiki’ film by Thor Heyerdahl  caught my eye
Now Easter Island is a destination I dearly want to try

A...

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SHAMED BY THE  SHORE

As a child I felt patently pure
Jesus cleansed my unrighteous soul
As an adult I’ve now become unsure
Because life and love have taken their toll

Admiration is colored  red
Joy is colored blue
At...

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"There's a river meandering through the mind,"
older than the Englishmen who raised a bridge 
over its Constitution, a nude Indian sped away
from a warring Englishman behind 
absconding by canoe to an adjacent isle
but smallpox caught...

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mountains tumble
across the horizon 
twisting the last splinters 
of warmth
through heavy hanging 
gray soup 
listless lifeless 
endless sigh
dogs roll over
mown grass
clinking ice 
gentle laughter
fluttering chimes
cool breeze
sweet pungent earth 
enlivens lungs 
ocean cracks 
spills sheets
steams stainless...

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T' night after a peaceful bubbly sunset
And a well painted aftermath.
We 're about to stroll down 
Alongside the Alawai Canal 
Beneath aloha waving palm fronds
Carefully stepping around the biggest frogs
We've ever seen
At least twice the...

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Slow flames under the blacktop,
simmer-ghost rise
from the sloughing road.

Rubber scorches its skin
shedding blackened snakes.

It's a hot day,
creeping turtles fill pot-holes
with their hot-plate shells.

The highway drums along
to the churr of cricket songs,

along the way, either out...

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Tea time in the desert,
a stellar hibiscus moment;
the freedom of passionate dreams
build to a crescendo amid
starlight reverie.

A release of stress and trauma,
is a sip of love from the universe;
I watch evening waves greet 
the celestial...

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My love,
What a dream you are to me.

We walk hand in hand,
Sometimes by the sea,
And yes it seems a dream.
But a dream how can it be?

With you I feel so free.
The crashing of the waves,
Erasing...

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The night emits a citronella scent
   From tiki torches topped with living flame;
I swim in circles -- softly speak your name --
   While starlight washes over us, content.

Cicadas still sing secrets...

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Zeno on Vacation

		           - In praise of immobility

	


		It certainly isn’t far from his room
		to the ocean. A few steps. Easily

		navigable, he says to himself. Not
		a...

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The beach ran into the surf
exposing her body, showcasing a creature
heavier than the vogue
yet graceful in the swell and spume,
more adapted and fluent than the leaner
more angularly lank ideal.

Water turned her curves,
curled endearingly over
her aqueous...

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Expecting storm clouds to pass
dreaming of greatness
bobbing back and forth...
hoping for lots of power ups
feeling kinda seasick
sharpening senses...
happily smiling
thinking about cheese 
staying confident...
shuttling electrons 
feeling upbeat about chances
wondering what "Zuma" means...
reviewing Tiki knowledge
anticipating fun...
passing time...

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Outside October perches it's little feet
upon summer's fading scenery,
replacing marigolds with mums
and swapping tiki torches
for dimly lit jack o' lanterns,
illuminating midnight
with another seasons mysterious approach

and I cannot help but wonder
if fall had a heart,
to whom...

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Is it the same in Hale Ewa
Where the bars are  slow to wind
Are the regulars still clever
As they chatter in the kind
Is the Alawai still flowing
With giant frogs still growing
To the ever pounding
Same resounding...

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