Congratulations to Homelessinhonolulu. You are the January winner for the Great Bamboo Ridge Year of the Rooster Writing Contest. You’ve won 10 Bamboo Bucks that you can spend in our…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
Love
The fierce love I feel for you is like rolling thunder building a rain and dust storm on a hot summer evening.
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
Drum Party
I can’t remember wakening to the sound of birds before, ever. It was a minor surprise that the already warm tropical sun hadn’t done it earlier, or, as I slowly…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
Auntie Visits The Cemetary
“Which one is Mother? How you know das her name? Long time ago get all kine rules: who can go graveyard, who no can. Depend on how old you stay….
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
All Comes Down
Propped up against the headboard She calmly smoothes the cotton sheet With knarled arthritic fingers, Examining the faded flower pattern. In lucid moments she tells me that I look so…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
New Year’s Day, Plus One
Penning “2018” on my water bill payment, I realize it’s been fifty years, a full half-century. If not now, when? That novel of social and personal revolution, summer 1968. Better…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
Brain Farts
I approach the medical receptionist’s desk with my 84-year-old mother. We are at her primary care doctor’s office, on the third floor of the medical group’s building. She’s scheduled for…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
Walking Around Chinatown
Everybody like fo walk around Chinatown on New Year’s Day, no mo nothing fo do, no mo money. Dey like go stand outside da window, watch da cook chop char…
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for General
Write on into the new year with this month’s contest rules and regs
Happy New Year to all. I hope that your 2018 will be filled with great writing sessions. Here are the guidelines for January. Hey, guess what? You can write a…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
Winter
Winter Winter comes when a woman goes cold on you when the butterfly leaves your hand and when the hummingbird no longer stands still and when nothing rests on a…