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In Memory of Humanity : a Than-bauk
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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 bus up. How you feel? My tale Pau
Aloha e. Happy Tax Season to all of you. I hope you get large returns. I got $1 back from the State this year. Score! Now, here’s what we’re up to this month. Let’s write between 100 and 1000 words. These are some prompts.You know the story. You can use the prompts, or you can…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for March 2024-Year of the Dragon
There Went the Neighborhood
It is a large party. My neighborhood is a quiet one. Usually. But tonight valet parkers – valet parkers — run back and forth, young and looking like they would appreciate large tips, their white shirts, red vests, and black bowties suggesting a need to afford to escape from their job. I mean who in…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for March 2024-Year of the Dragon
Edentulous
“This is a problem” said the authorities. “It doesn’t bother me” I reply. “This needs to go.” They reiterated. “Never.” Said I.” I will tend to it, care for it, nurture it and I will love it forever. For always.” “Ok let us know when it starts to bother you…..” Hrummpph! Thought I. Is it…
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for March 2024-Year of the Dragon
March 2024 Year of the Dragon-Call for Bamboo Shoots Writing Prompts : )
Aloha, Writers, and Happy Lunar New Year. I’m looking for writing prompt suggestions. If you have one for this month, please email it to me [email protected] Mahalo : ) UPDATE: Okay, here are two: Write about something that puzzles you. Maybe a time when you were confused about something you saw or heard, or sometime…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for January 2024 Year of the Rabbit Bamboo Shoots Writing Challenge Prompts
The Spirit of Aloha
“So what’s so important that you have to yell?” the platform director asked, looking up at the flustered man. The Asian-looking man, who stood a half foot taller than the gentleman dressed in his perfectly pressed blue suit and cap, stopped short. Blinked. Regained himself, as if he’d been living in another world for a…
Aloha and a very Happy New Year to you all. First, the 45th Anniversary Banquet & Fundraiser (including a Silent Auction) is coming up on Saturday, March 2nd. If you can, please come out and support BRP: 45th Anniversary Banquet & Fundraiser Also, please consider purchasing a copy of the 45th anniversary BR issue: 45th…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for December 2023 year of the Rabbit Bamboo Shoots Writing Contest Prompts
A Child’s Christmas in Hawai’i
Say, 65 years ago this morning I would have been awake much earlier than sunrise, earlier than that time when worms begin to quiver in fear of rising birds, and most amazingly, earlier than my parents. It was the only day of the year when I would jump out of bed with the kind of…
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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. Hope you enjoy it. A tale of ancient times in a drought-ridden ʻāina. Te Kete, te Tahā Wai ā te Rākau Ngaio Kore wai…