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Aloha and e komo mai. I'm an author of prose and poetry born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. I publish a daily rough draft here on my author site. Please read with me, comment, and please share your own writing. Mahalo for reading, and a hui ho.

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Tag: #Music

Heritage Song

We Koreans converge on Hawai‘i Theatre tonight,all bows and the scent of garlic-laced dinners, lots of quick head nods and Annyeong … More

#Culture, #Dance, #Hawaii, #Korea, #Music, #WriterThursday

This Old Piano

When I sit down on our piano bench, the piano nearly 60 years old now, I am comfortable enough. I … More

#Children, #Music, #ParentsandChildren, #Talent, #WriterSaturday

Conduct

We’d sit at stoplights and classical music would playon the public radio station to which she still donated.Again she’d begin … More

#Music, #ParentsandChildren, #WriterSaturday, Aging

We Were Then

That silver flame subdued all color  into black and white. Remembering neon paint and black light nights. I recall the … More

#Dance, #Love, #Music, #PoemsFromHawaii, #School, #Teenagers, #WriterSaturday

Soundproof

For the first two years in Madison, I live in Susan Bradford Hall. It’s on Greek Row. Once a dorm … More

#Love, #Music, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterMonday

Gaze

I squint, and even though I oddly see you tiny and distorted through the peephole, I can make out her … More

#Love, #Music, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Secrecy, #WriterMonday

Not Everything Is Broken

If I were Bob Dylan, I could tell you everything that’s broken.If you know that song, you know his list is … More

#Memory, #Music, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSaturday

One of a Kind

A friend, a school band director, professional drummer, jazz fanatic, and high-end audiophile,reports he’s just back from a west coast … More

#Death, #Music, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday

Happy Some Before Dawn

Quieter, still quieter, quiet down the energy pent up today, for such recklessness cannot sit wasting by the window ledge … More

#Love, #Music, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Work, #WriterWednesday

That’s What’s That

2021 marks the 60th anniversary of the movie version of Flower Drum Song.32 years later, a second Hollywood movie, The … More

#Music, #Musicals, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Race, #WriterSunday

Spin

I will enter the vault in search of the song I believe I have spun here on old vinyl.Memory could … More

#Music, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSaturday, Aging

Miserable Musicians

There once were two moron musiciansWho were wise about public admissionsThey thought white was rightTold their fans so – that … More

#Music, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterMonday

Choir

He sits there stick alert staring into space, one quivering hand resting just above the keys, the other pointing off … More

#Music, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSunday

The Tests of Time

We’d known each other, worked together in the record store, for nearly six months already.  By the time she came … More

#Dating, #Memories, #Music, #Wisconsin, #WriterThursday

Contributing to the Cause

I have been to the Bristol bus terminal enough times now to have lost count.  Not a huge number of … More

#England, #Music, #Travel, #WriterMonday

Dinnertime

Charlie calls hogs, eats um, chickens too, royally roasting marbled tunes of time draped in gold and bar-b-que sauce, sweet … More

#Music, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterSunday

Vinyl’s Final

Vinyl was as good as dead, but it’s making a comeback.Like Lazarus, LPs have risen from the grave.The last time … More

#2021AprilPADChallenge, #Music, #Nostalgia, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Time, #WriterTuesday

Not for Sale

In 1973, on the heels of him rocketing into the big name star echelon, Neil Young came to Hilo Town … More

#Fathers, #Hawaii, #Love, #Music, #ParentsandChildren, #Rivalries, #Teenagers, #WriterWednesday

maybe try saying this

so if you can’t say every single wordthen try at least a word or tworemarking maybe howtwo neutron stars will … More

#Astronomy, #Love, #Music, #Poetry, #WriterSaturday, #Writing

Old Dance Record

This is the way it should be for everyone who passesswing us back, some yearning mote of feather dust floatsin … More

#Dancing, #Death, #Music, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterSunday, #WritingPrompt

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