Long Waterspouts Poems

You had that future retro look:  two thousand seventeen,
There was a slow and sultry permanence, a little slouchy lean
As you eased out of the taxi before it shot off to the right,
Who could have...

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I remember gazing upon
 the ocean from my lanai
on the Kona mountainside
Watching the cruise ships
gliding through the dark 
Into Kailua Bay at the 
Same time every morning
always clad in their bright jewel
necklaces that lit up...

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I attacked her branches vigorously, 
clipping crossed limbs, suckers and waterspouts
that reach straight to the clouds.

The day, too early for the warmth we'd been getting,
bright, sunny, bee-dazzled.
The bees flitting from pink bud to pink bud,
racing...

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The earth shakes, quakes; 
belches up ash, rock and smoke;
spitting tsunami’s and cyclone winds.

Here and there, 
extinct species reappear, 
as if they’d been spewed from cavern’s, at earth’s core; 
perhaps they’ve been hiding for centuries.

As...

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Togetherness 

Have you ever seen those beautiful sky paintings known as Fire rainbows?
You are one of them sparkling my life.

Have you ever seen those halos known as Ice crystal in the clouds?
You are one of...

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The fog has lifted and the breeze blows
Though clouds still decorate
Pink hibiscus' blooms open wide
The sun they celebrate

Under currents run wild each day
Red, angry waves assail
Fear presses below the surf, waits
Then waterspouts prevail

Tossing, churning the...

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