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tell her you saw me

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tell her you saw me ...

tell her I was out on the bluff at the Cape during a gale, much too close to the rocks … tell her the surf was tormenting the ledges, its roar far too loud for me to hear...

Categories: outrigger, adventure, analogy, anxiety, break
Form: Epic

Santa Had a Change of Aloha

...There's Santa that came to Waikiki bay
On an outrigger canoe Christmas Day
He wore a grass hula skirt
And a large Aloha shirt
His course went astray he opted to play

12/19/22

A Funny Santa ...

Categories: outrigger, christmas, humor,
Form: Limerick

Tell Her You Saw Me

...Tell her you saw me ...

Tell her I was out on the bluff at the Cape
during a gale, much too close to the rocks.
Tell her the surf was tormenting the ledges,
its roar far too loud for me to hear...

Categories: outrigger, allegory, heartbreak, lost love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Without Outrigger

...He who rows on two rivers
Is drowning his wife in tears....

Categories: outrigger, boat,
Form: Epigram

Subsidence

...The memory of yesterday is 
clanging, 
Competing against the sweet 
and bitter tastes of the present.
While sailing against the giant waves of life.
I persistently and firmly hang on, 
allowing...

Categories: outrigger, life,
Form: Free verse

Odyssey From Africa 11c

...Chapter 11c (The Island Kingdom, continued...)

Every member of the party
Had their fill of roasted sea-flesh
All the dogs and Rosy also 
Wolfed down all that they could swallow 
 
Then they r...

Categories: outrigger, adventure, africa, environment, history,
Form: Narrative

What's the Use

...I have a little shack near the water’s edge.
The surf beats its sound into my ears as I go to sleep.
The palm trees are there and the sand is white.
Village bamboo huts rim the bay farther away.
...

Categories: outrigger, how i feel,
Form: I do not know?

Descry a Skill, Decry It Not

...I spied a ship and descried the flag it flew.
It was nothing like the flags I had seen before.
It was red and blue, with white circles and yellow stars
The highlights of white and yellow stood out...

Categories: outrigger, ocean, sea, stars, travel,
Form: Epic

Hawaiian Fantasy In Blue

...
Where the sea meets the sky,
Blue on blue.
White sails, slowly sliding by,
Azure hue.
Warm sands, intense, bright sun,
Calming you.
Beautiful island girl, scantily clad,
No taboo.
H...

Categories: outrigger, beach, beauty, fantasy, joy,
Form: Monorhyme