Pipe Lines of Kaimu: Prologue
...The orbiting host of a forenoon sky claims a sunny day. They are attributed for the better part of each year, primarily affecting the island's leeward side. On its windward side, periodic downpours f...
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Categories:
windward side, allegory, childhood, dream, feelings,
Form: Narrative
Our Trades
...Life on the windward side of our island,
at times, the tradewinds persuade downpour,
still, the sun light's gods and goddesses tanned.
Sailboats adrift, surfers thrill life ashore,
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Categories:
windward side, adventure, analogy, beach, beautiful,
Form: Terzanelle
Snow Ghosts
...Rime, a crunchy, rough, as it glows prime snow
On the surface of all that snow, like a white cameo
Popcorn or Styrofoam plastered at zero below
Rippled from the nemesis cold wind, frozen curling ...
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Categories:
windward side, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Winter Pallette
...Vibrant, sunlit aqua bands streak over grey sky,
As smoky purple, broad brush strokes under them lie.
Deeply drink this bolder winter palette, before it passes by!
Snow clings to the windward si...
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Categories:
windward side, color, life, winter,
Form: Sonnet
P O E M 2012
...P.O.E.m 2012
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Peitro is barely three years old
Eleonora, his great-grandmother, eighty-three
And yet, they are the closest of friends
Carrying on and laughing in the library but
Even the stud...
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Categories:
windward side, christmas, love, peace, words,
Form: Acrostic
Windward Song
...When the clouds
Become untied and divided
Sometimes, colliding together
Tumbling upside down or,
They are knocking each other around....
I know that's you up there
Guiding me, humbly alon...
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Categories:
windward side, daughter, dedication, devotion, family,
Form: Free verse
Never Too Old For Snow!
...Like a blustering old man the
storm spews snow epitaphs of disregard
for the minions of man.
A light froth falls from the north
dry and distant making
sideburns, muttonchops on the bark
of bar...
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Categories:
windward side, adventure, childhood, happiness, nature
Form: Free verse
Voyage
...the horizon is endless
a lone ship at sea
passage for one
an intolerable feat
navigation by the stars
like the days of old
days of endless drifting
nights of rain and cold
no lighthouse t...
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Categories:
windward side, introspection
Form: Verse
Lunching Vultures
...He left the boat tied fore and aft on the windward side of the ramp
It was low tide and kelp covered most of the low end
The usual crowd was watching his every move
Sitting there in the sun sippin...
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Categories:
windward side, nature, people, social, boat,
Form: Blank verse