My stocking stay hang from one of da knobs of da built in bungalow cupboards and now so full of puka da roaches get ‘um I tink mine one…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Ox -- December Contest
Firefly Moments
The first time I saw fireflies I was with my brother in Illinois waiting for fireworks It was dusk, and we were sitting in lawn chairs we carried from the…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Ox -- December Contest
Lessons in cohabitation
A free spirit (FS) with decades of control freak (CF) experience shares defusing techniques with examples, in order of increasing sophistication or infraction severity. Caution: Your results may vary; favorable…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Ox -- December Contest
Creative Process
Typing but I’m tired. So I lie on the carpet. Let my hair sprawl on the floor. Strands of a black silk, complex web. Huli onto my stomach and…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Ox -- December Contest
Only in Hawaii Senryu
Lines to board aircraft Do not compare with the line To buy fireworks. eyk 0258 12;26/2021 At 2:50 AM in the morning after Christmas Day, the line to buy fireworks…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Ox -- December Contest
(Un)remembered
The gown dwarfs the little boy, the cap extending a head-width-and-a-half on either side. He tries to smile, head atilt, but the sun is in his eyes, and at an…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Ox -- December Contest
Kitty’s View
The view outside my window whose sill upon which Hello Kitty sits, is that of a large magnolia tree. This tree was likely planted by the previous owner of this…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Ox -- December Contest
Haiku and Senryu about effects of the recent storm
The winds of the storm front blew down the blossoms of a tree near my office and scattered them over the grass. When the rains came, the downpours flooded and…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Ox -- December Contest
My tutu : 295 words
My tutu She’s building, fountains Shooting higher than the tallest ʻōhiʻa tree in the forest. Her fountains spit rocks and glass Her hemo-skin anger is unbridled. Her wiry tresses snap…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Ox -- December Contest
My Father’s Laugh
My Father’s Laugh I heard my Father laugh the other day, It was same broken “heh, heh, heh” That issued from a half crooked grin As he perused some new…
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