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Tag: #Relationships

Breakfast After a Bad One

Old lovers are ghosts, pass the pancakes,pass the syrup, blueberry, not maple, please,the way they shift themselves into our consciousness,when … More

#Dreams, #Ghosts, #Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterSunday

Hearing Loss

What’s that you’re saying under your breath,a curse or a blessing for me, you’ve done both well.I’ve grown to known … More

#Love, #OldAge, #Relationships, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Time, #WriterWednesday

The Bibliophile (100 words)

“I love books,” he says, standing next to one of the massive shelving units in his study, his shoulders rounded … More

#CharacterSketch, #Death, #Ghosts, #HusbandsandWives, #Relationships, #WriterFriday

The Fire Escape

The fire and the sirens woke everyone up.  The sky was bright orange and red.  I knew it when I … More

#Hawaii, #Neighbors, #Relationships, #ShortStory, #WriterTuesday

Remember this one?

It’s us sitting on a seawall.Maybe somewhere near Waikīkī.I don’t know.Great photo though.We’re both looking down and toward each other.We’re … More

#Hawaii, #Love, #Memories, #Photographs, #Relationships, #WriterSaturday

High Stakes

Ed had been in a bad auto accident.  More precisely he’d been hit when he was crossing Beretania Street near … More

#Accidents, #friendship, #Hawaii, #Love, #Relationships, #Rivalries, #WriterTuesday

An Aloha Shirt

Retirement had been half, half good so far.  The bad side was that he still had never established a routine … More

#FlashFictionFeb, #Hawaii, #Relationships, #Retirement, #ShortStory, #TakingChances, #WriterFriday

What I’m Looking For

What are the three things you’re looking for most in a partner? Hmmm . . . Well, I want to … More

#Dating, #Love, #Relationships, #ShortStory, #WriterThursday

A Marriage of Two Minds

“So what do you think it looks like?” she asks. We’re head to head, lying on the grass, staring up … More

#Animals, #Changes, #FlashFictionFeb, #Love, #Marriage, #Relationships, #ShortStory, #WriterThursday

No Game Stop

We were that amusement, some bright, shiny object,the birthday toy, the circus mobile spinning above the crib to mesmerizeor maybe … More

#Games, #Love, #Poetry, #Relationships, #Time, #WriterThursday

burn that mother down

I stare into a mirror sometimeswhere we bathed in a fiery lakebaby seen over my shoulder those gray eyesI can’t … More

#Dancing, #Love, #Poetry, #Relationships, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterTuesday

Books as old friends

I read you again, silent words and fading pagesturn them, weighing the paperthe memory of our first touchI close my … More

#Aging, #Love, #Relationships, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterTuesday

I know about first love

I’ve been there and I can tell youexactly what it’s like.  For sure youhoped she’d be someone special, the one, andwow … More

#Dating, #Kissing, #Love, #Relationships, #WriterThursday

The Gardener

I’m watching through the running glass window, an old one from 1926.I see my father, his figure slightly distorted in … More

#family, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Poetry, #Relationships, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

Footsteps (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Chapter 11)

Father and son sat on the lānai of their Punchbowl home.  The sunset was one of those spectacular Hawaiian ones so … More

#CrimeFiction, #FathersandSons, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #Murder, #Relationships, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

Family Moments (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Chapter 8)

Late that evening, nothing else breaking, David Chan staggered home to get food and a few hours of sleep.  It turned … More

#family, #FathersandSons, #Hawaii, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #Murder, #Relationships, #WriterSaturday, #WritingPrompt

Time: Lesson #5 (September Song)

RememberSummerCountryRockDiscoPop78Era / AndRecordsCassettesCDsMP3sWaiterPlease * * * * * Aloha #WriterFriday. Today’s #WritingPrompt is music Use it to inspire a piece … More

#Aging, #Love, #Music, #Relationships, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

Affair on Eighth Avenue

I sing a fall chill wind exploring the corners here, on the downside of town,the sun unable to peer into … More

#Love, #Poetry, #Relationships, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterFriday, Writing Prompt

Reactions (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Part 30)

Yamamoto was more curious than alarmed to find out that Chan had narrowly missed becoming an ex-partner. Fingering the bandage … More

#CrimeFiction, #Hawaii, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #Mystery, #Relationships, #WriterThursday, #WritingPrompt

X. Crossing Sevens

So they don’t look like ones, you taught me, thatwill bring us back to all the music in Madison held … More

#Love, #Poetry, #Relationships, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

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