Cherita is the Malay word for story or tale. A Cherita consists of a single stanza of a one-line verse, followed by a two-line verse, and then finishing with a three-line verse. It can either be written solo or with up to three partners.
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General Poetry
Determining GOOD
Right doesn’t have to explain itself to wrong. Good wins over evil. Consider this, No one is GOOD. We instinctively know this and then reject it perhaps that is why we ask WHY. We need to fit all the answers into a nice little package and then later forget the question. Future peoples may ask…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General Poetry
POEM A DAY
Pithy sayings Otherwise overlooked Engage readers with Moving metaphors Allotting thirty Daily Allegories to raise and encourage emerging Young poets.
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General Poetry
50’s Milestone Memoirs
Poem a Day charge’s brain’s battery. 50’s boomer hikes Diamond Head trail. Still trying to learn new things. Changing with times sparks stimulus package. 50’s best life is staying green. 50’s quiet reflection six word memoirs. Golf at 50 sinks two putts. 50’s golf swing flies the distance. Book smart babe writes poetry books. 50’s…
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Time Well Spent
Time well spent is a man sowing seeds in rich loam watering and feeding diligently day after day repeating the process until finally he eats the reward. is a good book read in pursuit of personal growth that gives up its seat on the train of popular thought. is a belief challenged on the road…
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Windy–Cherita
Kona winds scatter lightweight objects to four converse corners a tiresome puzzle to piece together.
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General Poetry
Siblings-Aphorisms
The oldest child breaks through barriers. The middle kid sports steel determination. Sisters exchange secrets friends share information. Siblings have rivalry friends craft alliance. The youngest one never grows old. Sisters for life family still rules.
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A Great Dane’s Report on New Year’s Eve in Hawaii
I would be the first to piss on all of them and all their explosives. I would make sure to tinkle on all of their matches not a single aerial or even a piece of obnoxious red paper would remain dry. This colossal stain would wreak a reminder that these islands are shared by all….
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New Years Eve Folly
Predawn my favorite time of day a time where stillness reigns. No firecrackers, no rockets, or pinwheel brilliant bursts. The party people have retreated gone back into their caves to rest and stock up on ammunition. Thousands of firecrackers still silent are strung across countless streets hanging from makeshift welded metal and boards, haphazardly constructed…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General Poetry
New Year’s Eve–Ku
Fireworks are out of control!