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Submission for The Bones of Blood Work: “Kāneʻohe Town” Prompt
Hilo Bay, anno Domini 2546 “You know about the nuclear king tide that just hit Hilo Bay?” “No Puna, no one ever…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for October 2024 Year of the Dragon Bamboo Shoots Writing Contest Prompts
Wasa mala you? You know who dat wuz?
Buzzy’s Lounge, a time warp of a cocktail lounge a few minutes away from the old Hilo Airport. Jon, the head bartender, is putting away the bulbous Hurricane, Tropical Itch…
Aloha kākou , I’ve got one more story in me for Hawaiian History Month. An excerpt from Hannah Grace: A Second-Generation Missionary’s Daughter “One day, after the rains, I felt…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for September 2024 Year of the Dragon Bamboo Shoots Writing Contest Prompts
We Five Kings: Nā Kamehameha ʻElima
Aloha BR ʻohana and readers, This is Hawaiian History Month. I often ask myself, what do I know about our monarchs? How did they shape our history? How do our…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for August 2024 Year of the Dragon Bamboo Shoots Writing Contest Prompts
Grains of Rice – 1,000 words
It’s kaukau time at Tutu chan’s house, she taught me how to save every grain of rice when you wash and every grain from the pot when you save leftover…
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Jewels of Inferno
My challenge was the Golden Shovel: A newer form, inspired by Gwendolyn Brooks. I took a line from an existing poem and used each word as the end word in…
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In Memory of Humanity : a Than-bauk
Food near but far Gaza markets Old war no die
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No Can Help : a Nonet
We thought was going be pau by Christmas Dey nevah like start for talk yet Dey said gotta teach lessons People no mo kau kau No mo hospital Da land…
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Te Kete, te Tahā Wai ā te Rākau Ngaio (The Basket, the Calabash and the Ngaio Tree)
Aloha BR ‘Ohana, Missed the deadline of last month’s Shoots assignment. I composed a poem based on an ancient tale of the Māori people called Rona. The English translation follows….
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rabbit -- October Contest
Lomeo and Iulieki – one pidgin tragedy inspired by Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”
Aloha BR readers, If you nevah read “Lomeo and Iulieki — one pidgin tragedy” part one and part two, mo bettah go back and catch up. Bumbye going be too…