Short Hilo Poems

Red Sun 

The engine coughs and sputters
Then roars and shows it’s ready
To catch the sun at Hilo
Rising from the sea.


Written 06/24/13 for Russell Sivey’s
Red Sun Contest....
Remember Pearl Harbor...

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El amor florece en el invierno también
Rompe el hilo de tus cuentas silenciosas
El amor no es un espejismo
Abre las cerraduras de tu camuflado
anhelos
El amor es genial, el amor es azul
Violeta rosa violeta amarillo
El amor es rojo como la sangre...

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Today I,
Choose to dream so big
          Saying bye
         To the fear
That had me trapped in my mind
         Now I’m free
   
         


           

             



  




 02/19/2022
Contest: Give Me A Shadorma 
Sponsor:Hilo Poet...

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Waves washed in wind
Sulfer swirled till cold with rain.

Flowers bloomed in ashes
where lava dance to cool.

My love grew in tides
Love of my king and queen.

Banyan holds sulfer in tides
Branches blends kayak in dreams .

Left alone as promise child
Dead call names stalk of sugar cane....

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Mpenzi, mbona wanitupilia mbali?
Na kuniacha katika ziwa la mashaka,
Kisha nikapata mawazo kwamba,
Nasikika nikisema
Labda kuna sababu,
Kuhusu hilo jambo,
Lakini ikiwa ni hivyo,
Nasikika nikisema
Hatua fanya nipate furaha,
Mpenzi, kwani kwangu kusikia uzoefu,
Angalau ningeambiwa nini kiendeleacho.
Nasikika nikisema...

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A to Z 1 to Infinity - , Eureka's;:  N O   M O?

VOILA!

Being kicked to the curb
while skipping to the loo
my friends.
Now back to my shake and bake,
small town of Hilo,
that sits on the bay
below erupting
Mauna Loa &
the 100+ tremors
daily since it began
this past Sunday late at night.

Aloha Hilo Poet William...

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World's troubles reflected in a dark sky
Days and nights now blurred fears quantify
My ears pick up artillery in war cry
Depression rolls in I try to deny
All my thoughts grow befuddled I belie
Tears held in so many puddles I cry
Emotions all muddled up in deep sighs
My eyes hollow my heart beats amplify
On divine intervention I rely! 

2.11.22
Contest Name: Monomixorhyme
Sponsor: Hilo Poet...

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Is it  a myth that History repeats?
This universal question that time deletes

Is the evidence clear that it occurs?
Through eons and eons it strangely recurs

Is it true that  horrors are dulled by time?
This forever, unchanging paradigm

If wars are to end should it start with me?
To account for mankind’s insanity.

August 31st ‘22
For Dot Your I's and Cross Your T's Contest
by Hilo Poet
howmanysyllables =10...

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With a mind sharp as a marble
Words roll off my tongue as garble.
My clean shaved head is like a globe
Serpentine tattooed, lobe to lobe
With yellow, brown and strings of blue
Of understated pastel hues
Waxed smoother than a scratched eight-ball
Like a brain coral, all in all.
What is outside is not within
Sharp as a marble crown to chin.

Sponsor: Hilo Poet
Contest Name: Simile Poetry Contest
“Sharp as a Marble”...

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stealth
makes a sound
goes like this,
S W O O S H

death
makes a sound
goes like this,
S W O O S H

graves
makes a sound
goes like this,
S W O O S H

living
makes a sound
goes like this,
 ... ... ... ... ... >>>

Hilo Town
its bayfront
underwater
widest part
funnel shaped
its mouth face
out towards 
 ... the sea

Hilo Bay
underwater
smallest part
funnel shaped
its spout face
in towards
 ... Hilo Town

S W O O S H ...

...

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Caught up in a mournful and jumbled montage
It's an exhausting malicious barrage
Just shards of a sordid side show collage
Our sweet smiles are transparent camouflage
For your aching ego there's no massage
So now park it in a soundproof garage
And join your noble leader's entourage
Chant blue, red or purple, just pay homage
We will be great again in this mirage

11/6/22
Monomixrhyme Poetry Contest
Sponsor:  Hilo Poet
64 words
Syllable counter.com...

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I'll never know what from your heart I tore
Each lie I lived, every swing of the door
Not that I hid or kept even the score
Not that I loved anyone anymore
I question what love I was in before
It wasn't like movies, books, or fairy lore
For the rest of my life, on love I'll snore
Rather break a heart--my desire--ignore
A false lover I'll prove--could I be more?

For the MonoMixoRhyme Cash Prize Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Hilo Poet
11/8/2022...

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Ever since Biden marched in my stocks plump
My gains and nest egg make my shoulders slump
Unfortunately I've lost to that chump
My piece of American pie, a dump
What were five stars is now two dullest lump
I've endured his march of geese on my rump
Yet hope his wild goose chase comes to a stump
Until then I hope some road frees of bump
And tears chill and I get over this hump

11/08/22

MonoMixoRhyme Cash Prize Poetry Contest

Sponsor-Hilo Poet

N/A...

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Life is not a scrawled hazy fantasy. 
We must learn to impress what we fancy. 
If we open our fastened jalousie 
then maybe, we can explicitly see 
that our mind can be wider than the sea. 
For sometimes, gleam of bright reality 
does not reflect our chosen cup of tea; 
It takes far more than what we ought to be 
For our rambling captive souls to be free.

November 9, 2022

Monomixorhyme Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Hilo Poet
9 10 syllable lines checked by HMS.com...

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Palm trees and bamboo tower
above me 
What grand stature! 
Patches of terra uncensored by grass
 Ferns intertwine, creating a 
jungle of green
Deceased, arid palm leaves
rest upon a bed of lively shrub
The humid, Hilo air
annoying, yet, a sense of 
warm, maternal embrace 
surrounds me 
Mr. Buddha, he sits, stone still
So patient
Unmolested by the humidity 
or the mosquitoes
An ever so slight grin he presents 
that says: 
"I don't know it all, but I am content."...

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Value is personal all cultures through.
Check out the visitors seen in your zoo.
Younger kids love to pet the mama ewe
while teens want to watch baby snake’s debut.
I fancy museums, what about you?
Rate old Muslim mosques found in Timbuktu
with the bear claw necklaces of the Sioux.
Pondering preferences hitherto
contentious prejudice we can subdue.

November 2, 2022

Sponsor	Hilo Poet
Contest Name	MonoMixoRhyme

9 lines, 10 syllable each, 59 words
checked with HMS and RZ...

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As I walked into the building,
I was welcomed by an echoing silence,
Like a walk through a ghost land, 
I could hear the sound of every step l took,
Nostalgia feelings swept through me,
The amiable embrace of the
 the building is gone in the shadows,
Its affable warmth is stolen by life’s midnight,
Its aesthetic, waned and frail.
Sombre notes fill my heart,
The door stands before us,
Life’s twilight awaits everyone.




August 11, 2022.
Simile Poetry Contest,
Hilo Poet....

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I hear them on the television,
like I have a choice,
that's flat-out all they show these days:
Politicians
with their elucidations
tangled as Grandma's yarn.
Honest Joe, explicating why I'm beggared;
"It's your own fault, my good friends,
frankly, we need bold solutions"
they boom; 
then hike the price of gas.
And the voices of we, the people;
lost
like violins in a marching band.




Simile Poetry Contest placed 10th
Sponsored by: Hilo Poet  
Date wrote: 6th August 2022...

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We rode on a bicycle made for two,
    While on vacation, to visit a zoo.
    Where we strolled around, enjoying our view.
    Of North America's, wild caribou,
    To friendly llamas, from far off Peru.
     And an African antelope, the gnu.
     Then watching pachyderms, while in the queue,
     We observed birds, and a flightless emu.
     To big cats and reptiles, farewell adieu.

     11 / 9 / 2022.
     Sponsor Hilo Poet.
     For the contest.   Monomixorhyme poetry contest....

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