Simply Live Aloha: Haikus & More

Look Up (6/30/22)

Do you ever look

up in time to see falling

mangos in mid air?

Shiver, Bamboo (6/19/22)

“Why shiver, bamboo?" 

I'll tell you. 

If your summer

was spent in the path of falling mangos

You'd shiver too!

Bamboo in the Breeze, a Poem by Patrick (6/19/22)
Bamboo why do you sway in the breeze?

Because I go where the wind takes me.

I allow it to bend me but not break me,

it’s a dance we share, he leads and I follow.

Tuesday Sunrise (4/19/22)

The sun peaks through a

puka in the veil of vines

and roosters rejoice.

Sandy Saturday Lunch (2/26/22)

A splash of crashing

waves and a dash of salt and

pepper sand for lunch.

Seeds in Flight

Tropic snow? Fairies?

What is this floating down on

such shimmery wings?!

Kalikimaka Morning

Red cardinals call

“Mele Kalikimaka!”

to green bamboo trees

Wake-up Call

The midnight thunder

awakens chickens roosting

on mango branches

Pure Nature

Life really is pure

like a white seabird in flight

on a cloudless day.

Wild Parrots

Vivid streak of green

darting from tree to tree

dining on mangoes.

Simply Live Aloha

Sipping bamboo tea

under the mango tree, in

my Aloha tee

The Handshake

bamboo branches reach

across the blue sky to shake

leaves with mango trees.

A Cardinal’s Song

all the sky is your

stage. sing to me from on high

scarlet messenger.

A Walk Under the O’hia

Finally present

under a blue Volcano

sky, holding your hand.

View from the Lanai

From up here, seabirds

and sailboats are the same white

dot on waves of blue