If you go over to the Bolgs tab, you’ll see that each day, Monday through Friday, a word of the day is posted. Use any of those words in a…
Bamboo Shoots awards
Year of the Pig Contest July winners : )
Hey, Happy hot August. Hope you aren’t seeing in your own juices these days. No deodorant can hold back Niagra Falls. Congratulations to Piihonua, DoreenB, Homelessinhonolulu, and Jim Harstad for…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
The Jewel-Encrusted Diadem
Fo da boss, he says, “jes’ write”, e kākau wale hoʻi. ʻEha Ke Poʻo Ouuuch! ʻEha ke poʻo! My head hurts. Auē! I feel trampling, all over my rugged kino,…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
Trade Winds
Wafting, crooning Palolo trades Surge naked and serene across paired innocents. Pele’s na pepa li’li, Tactile as touch. Cupid’s vanilla swoon, Tacit as hush.
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
ON HE RODE — Chapter Fifteen
Good of The Buckaroo to cut us a break this month — no rules. He cuts me a break every month by allowing — nay, encouraging — me to indulge…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
The Oldest Hotel in Waikiki
I’ve just come from listening to Robert Cazimero do a show at the Blue Note nightclub. I’m sitting at the Moana Hotel’s Beach Bar, checking email on my phone. At…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
Newell Shearwater
You are– the dark speck flapping in the eye of the sun, the passing cloud over the ocean’s face, white underbelly concealing talons, wingtips shearing ocean tides. You navigate the…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
Hawai’i Sonnet 67 (for LKH and R&R C)
Leina’ala floats, a dream vision her smile indelible, genuine, always so gracious gliding, swaying, her hands are birds in flight elegance in their movement, soar and weave of feathered flame…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
False Wiliwili — Part Four
My draft for Sunday 07.14.19. False Wiliwili — Part Four That night I tried to read the Economics text with the same intensity I read the material for my English…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
False Wiliwili — Part Three
I didn’t think of myself as a stalker, but I can see now that my behavior came close. I walked right over to the reception desk at Johnson Hall and…