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Tag: #sonnetsfromhawaii

To Move On

All those times you’d been togethernot holding onto you, sticking with you,how after all this can laughter heal you, evercome … More

#Death, #Grief, #Love, #LovedOnes, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterSaturday

The world, grown old

You know, my fate’s really always come down to you.It’s been that way since 1982.I’ve counted the years nearly every … More

#Aging, #Love, #OldAge, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Wishes

This is now

Sometimes I think I’ve becomethat man it’s said will never understand the boyeven though he has been that boybecause he’s … More

#Aging, #Childhood, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Time

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

Mānoa Driving Lessons

Friday nights we smoke dopedrink Strawberry Hilland I give Steve driving lessons Every time we pass by her houseSteve stops … More

#Cars, #Drugs, #Games, #Love, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Teenagers, #WriterSunday, Drinking

The moment

when sorrow impossibly palesloss of what made sense and words lostcome untethered time and rhymeunreasoned rants in late day hazespeech … More

#Death, #OldAge, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterMonday

Carousel of Time

The end of the carnival of light and soundthe summertime fairgroundof Ferris wheel and rollercoaster rideslaughter a million miles from … More

#Aging, #Memories, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterWednesday

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

My corn grows high

in five large black plastic pots on my lānai,watering, and fertilized with care,I am satisfied, bearthe slight tremorin my hands … More

#Aging, #Disability, #Gardening, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterMonday, #WritingPrompt

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

The Walker

I need to buy tennis balls, I thought, go upand say it’s a gift, because, you know, sir,I’ve heard they … More

#Disability, #Neighbors, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterSaturday, #WritingPrompt

November Song

I look back on them all long and longfor what I might have had in my mind’s eyesee red skirts … More

#Aging, #Love, #Memories, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

A Memory of Dying

I can see us holding those little white pleated paper cups,smell the yellow pineapple cubes, icy cold, the perfect mid-morning … More

#Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

A Dying Wish

The second thing I remember is my 4th birthday party,five red wax candles burning on a pink cake, the extra one … More

#Birthdays, #Memoires, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Wishes, #WriterWednesday, #WritingPrompt

On Wisconsin

I hear, see, grow the silence of the fields, the farmershaving retreated into their farmhouses as graves,the long acres of … More

#Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterMonday, #WritingPrompt

The Norway Dance

Last night I dreamed I danced on my Norwegian side.I’m ashamed to say, I’ve no idea what authentic Norwegian dance … More

#Dancing, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterSaturday, #WritingPrompt

When Will Rogers Met Donald Trump

Stuck here at home, unable to see my family anymore,lying in bed at night I think, with short, shallow breaths … More

#family, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Time, #travel, #WriterTuesday, #WritingPrompt

Shanghai Tower

I wouldn’t get caught dead in Dubai, so probably then in the endthe tallest building I’ll ever have visited in … More

#Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Time, #travel, #WriterWednesday, #WritingPrompt

Time Lesson 10: Cutting Ties

He had a baby once.He didn’t survive the pregnancy.Neither did it.  Neither did she.A crisis back then.  What to do, … More

#sonnetsfromhawaii, #Time, #WriterMonday, #WritingPrompt

Time Lesson 9: How to Cut It

I sliced the back of my neck the other day.Not huge, but not small either. Lots of blood.I was pissed. … More

#Aging, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterSaturday, poetry, Time

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