If you were here I’d lie messily on top of you to double the hallelujah of meeting you once, forever, last year. Do you remember how we recognized each other…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General Poetry
Equilibrium
You are a numbers kind of guy machines, sharp angles, and symmetrical bridges between legs excite you. Logic makes you pause and consider the many ways we come together so…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General Poetry
Spitting Caves With You
Damp skin catches salt sticky water churns beneath and the lace of my skirt clings hard to your legs like cobwebs to a strong wind. The stars, our lives make…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General Poetry
MAKAHIKI AT KAHO’OLAWE
The Makali’i will rise in the sky soon signifying the time of Makahiki. These haikus written some years ago recall that observance on Kaho’olawe.
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General Poetry
‘AUHEA O WENDY?
This is in memory of Wendy Machado…died 10-01-08…go in peace.
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General Poetry
LISTEN
This is a birthday poem written last year for my grandson La’akeaomaunalei. It evokes places on Lana’i – where part of his name comes from the clouds (maunalei) that converge each afternoon over the island.
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General Poetry
End of (a) Time
We live in a time, my friend, where genius in art and science is measured in money. We live in a time, where beauty is only acknowledged, if it can…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General Poetry
DOWNPOUR By Will Espero
Here is my attempt to capture the power of nature in words.
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General Poetry
I LIVE IN HAWAII/BY Alexis Nye
I live in Hawaii But I am not Hawaiian. Only parts of my human soul festooned with plumerias dripping sea water Nut brown voices singing in my head. Living in…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General Poetry
Places that Once Were
Inspired from the many stories my father used to tell me.