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Tag Archives: rain
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Sometimes it rains hard and there’s nothing you can do so you sit and wait.
Hawaiian Hurricane Haiku: Tropical Storm Postscript
1.) And then came the rain following the hurricane Tropical Storm Lane 2.) Everything is wet and the rain is still falling. Gardens are grateful. 3.) We’re all still alive us and all the animals horse and ducks … Continue reading
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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Without Ever Thinking Twice
After the rain stopped I sat there on that lava rock with the warm trade winds drying my wet clothes and the ocean making music waves crashing on the rocks around me the push and pull, that timeless dance taking … Continue reading
The Weeds
Sometimes it rains and the vegetables grow but so do the weeds and the weeds grow faster and stronger and sometimes the weeds suffocate the vegetables before we can intervene and sometimes they consume the entire garden but the rains … Continue reading
Wings On The Vulture
Let us wake now from this sleep before there’s nothing left for the meek to inherit the missionaries stole it and their kids won’t share it as they still fly old glory over stolen land broken with bibles and pineapples, canned and shipped to Rome from … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, america, drones, earth, empathy, farming, Gaza, goats, god, government, guns, hawaii, human rights, humanity, Japan, life, oceans, oil, palestine, poem, Poetry, Syria, taxes, truth, Uncategorized, war, war tax resistance
Tagged Afghanistan, America, empire, farming, god, greed, hawaii, human rights, humanity, iraq, palestine, poem, poetry, pollution, rain, war, war tax resistance
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And She Cried
There is an old woman whose husband had died and she cried and she cried and she cried and she cried and then this old woman’s children all died and she cried and she cried and she cried and … Continue reading
Posted in collateral damage, empathy, forgiveness, greed, humanity, life, love, poem, Poetry, revenge, revolution, storms, taxes, Uncategorized, war, war tax resistance, writing
Tagged death, greed, life, Peace, poem, poetry, rain, taxes, tears, war, war tax resistance
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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
Spring
The script was written long ago with an apple bitten so we’d never know that the truth was in us all along but they stole our solstice and silenced our song and said the devil made us dance and if … Continue reading
Posted in bible, church, dancing, empathy, eyes, fear, god, hate, hell, history, human rights, humanity, life, love, music, poem, Poetry, religion, song, Uncategorized, war, writing
Tagged dance, fall, god, humanity, life, mother earth, music, Peace, poem, poetry, rain, religion, solstice, Song, Spring, summer, truth, war, winter, writing
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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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