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Category Archives: rain
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Sometimes it rains hard and there’s nothing you can do so you sit and wait.
Hurricane Street
This is the storm of the century it’s time to batten down the hatches and tie down the tents close all the windows, shutters, and vents make one last trip to town to stock up on supplies buy cases of … Continue reading
Posted in Aloha ʻĀina, american dream, capitalism, climate change, farming, hawaii, hurricane, poem, Poetry, rain, sustainability, Uncategorized, water, writing
Tagged Aloha ʻĀina, capitalism, climate change, consumerism, disaster capitalism, environment, excess, farming, greed, hawaii, hurricane, Hurricane Lane, Naomi Klein, plastic, poem, poetry, pollution, sustainability, waste
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I Hope You’re Crying Too
It’s been raining all day today and it rained yesterday too and just when I was feeling blue about all the grey skies I realized that today was August 9th and then I opened up my eyes and I cried … Continue reading
Posted in Hiroshima, Japan, Nagasaki, poem, Poetry, poetry for peace, rain, Uncategorized
Tagged Hiroshima, Japan, Nagasaki, poem, poetry, poetry for peace, rain
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Let’s Sing A Song
Let’s sing a song for the dead let’s sing a song for the dying I want to hear more than just poor villagers crying let a chorus of cries ring out from sea to sea and we will fill oceans if … Continue reading
Gaza
I was losing myself in the sky reflecting in a puddle, a mirror left by an afternoon shower on the floor of our open-air barn. Mesmerized by the tree branches swaying in the breeze and by the clouds arriving and … Continue reading
Mother Earth
There might or might not be a “God” there might or might not be an afterlife there might or might not be ‘good’ and ‘evil’ there might or might not be a reason that we’re here there might or might … Continue reading
Posted in blood, capitalism, climate change, collateral damage, Dakota Access Pipeline, DAPL, death, democracy, earth, empathy, empire, environment, flowers, god, government, greed, hate, history, hope, human rights, humanity, Jesus, love, money, nature, oil, peace, poem, Poetry, rain, religion, revolution, taxes, trees, truth, Uncategorized, violence, war, water, Yemen
Tagged blood, DAPL, death, flowers, freedom, god, greed, inequality, life, money, oil, Peace, poem, poetry, poverty, religion, revolution, trees, truth, violence, war, wealth
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Pali
Longing to set sail once more casualties of a war waged with germs and guns and drugs and spam and pineapples and sugarcane and chemicals and steel and my heart is numb and I cannot feel your pain the goddess … Continue reading
Posted in collateral damage, fire, hawaii, hope, human rights, humanity, life, poem, Poetry, rain, religion, solidarity, Uncategorized, violence, writing
Tagged drugs, hawaii, poem, poetry, religion, solidarity, war
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Kalaupapa
how many feet have walked along this trail for years and years and years before hiking shoes and boots how many mules have stepped on these stones carying the weight of history how many tears have fallen remains a mystery but … Continue reading
Posted in farming, fishing, hawaii, human rights, poem, Poetry, rain, Uncategorized
Tagged farming, fishing, hawaii, Kalauapapa, poem, poetry, rain
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Olive Tree
daylight fading into evening shade tree branches swaying old record played on repeat no street lights here nothing to fear but aching feet and tired eyes havent cried in too long the records skipping mid-song just as I started singing … Continue reading
Posted in alcohol, american dream, anxiety, collateral damage, depression, farming, fear, hawaii, human rights, life, memories, Olive trees, peace, poem, Poetry, rain, suicide, time, Uncategorized, Veterans Day, war, writing
Tagged alcohol, american dream, anxiety, chickens, cows, death, depression, farming, life, news, olive trees, Peace, pigs, poem, poetry, politics, suicide, truth, war, writing
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Real Eyes
My eyes are burning as I’m falling through space galaxies become stars I fall further from grace and the race has no ending, I begin to realize that these signals they’re sending are just coded lies and these … Continue reading
Posted in american dream, bible, church, civil rights, collateral damage, death, democracy, dreams, empathy, environment, farming, fear, fire, free speech, freedom, Garden, god, government, happiness, hatred, human rights, humanity, imagine, justice, Liberty, life, love, memories, music, nature, peace, people, poem, Poetry, rain, religion, stars, summer, time, travel, trees, truth, Uncategorized, universe, violence, war, water, writing
Tagged american dream, collateral damage, death, democracy, dreams, lies, love, Peace, poem, poetry, space, time, truth, universe, war, writing
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