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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 hou.

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The Heart You’re Looking For

We come back day after daySearching for someone to holdWhen others walk away in loveWill we be here passing our … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday

Some London Aloha

My sister and I are headed for the Royal Observatory, and we’ve decided to take a ride on the Thames … More

#Kindness, #London, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Strangers, #Travel, #WriterThursday

Abstract (Concrete Plagiarism)

Okay, I see the title of this one is Air Force Research Laboratory, Aero-Effects Laboratory optical metrology system and performance. … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterThursday

Far To Go

Kidnapped and blindfolded, I’m dumped in an unknown part of town.Sitting on the asphalt, I remember it’s Christmas Eve and … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Time, #Work, #WriterThursday

And Found

We walk hand-in-hand down a green grass path. I see the undersides of overhead leaves. They are a deep brown, … More

#Dreams, #Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday

If a Chapel Bell Rings in Space

I waited, breath bated, in anticipation and trepidation,the tenterhooks rubbing my flesh a delightfully reddish hue.Headen for a wed’n, I … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday

To See What He Had Seen — Part Fifteen

A few more reports had been filed by parents whose sons had gone missing.  Four more victims had been identified.  All five … More

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #WriterThursday

To See What He Had Seen — Part Twelve

Jason Yu was at a loss about what to do.  He sat listless in his warehouse.  Kevin Won walked in, interrupting Yu’s … More

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #WriterThursday

Mask Up

Today I wore long pants for the first time since I flew home from Egypt in February 2020.That would be … More

#Pandemic, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday

To See What He Had Seen — Part Two

Chan and Yamamoto sat across from one another at their desks.  Chan, bleary-eyed, watched his partner munch on a donut. Taking … More

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #WriterThursday

Blue Mounds

We are walking the area called Blue Moundsjust outside of Madison, on a sunny summer day.It’s another picnic, she loves … More

#Love, #Marriage, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterThursday

The Night I Proposed

The band, two guys on guitar, and the female singer, played four nights a week, and I came to hear … More

#Love, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterThursday, Courage

A Maze

It’s good for a local island boy to see life from somewhere else once in a while. Madison was an … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterThursday, Friendship

Going Pro

By the time she was twelve, she’d risen to the top of the amateur circuit here in Hawai‘i.  Her parents, … More

#Careers, #Dreams, #ParentsandChildren, #StoriesfromHawaii, #Talent, #WriterThursday

Laundry Lines

My mom calls out from the kitchen window, telling me to hurry and bring in the clothes drying on the … More

#Childhood, #ParentsandChildren, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday

Icarus, Move Over

The pink plumeria tree still stands there. I can see it from my patio. More than twice its height at … More

#Games, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday

Peace

I stood by until after the crew had filled in the hole, a fresh mound of earth rounded over them. … More

#Death, #Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday

No Time for Sunshine

I’d love to write a poem affirming truth, and love, and constancy, extolling the happily ever after we all seek … More

#Happiness, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Sunshine, #WriterThursday

11:11

I glance at the clock, and it’s 11:10, one minute shy of that best moment of our lives. On the … More

#Clocks, #Love, #Marriage, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday

Food Glorious Food

If you were ever told that there were starving children somewhere who would be ecstatic to eat your unwanted food, … More

#Food, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday

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