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Mistletoe Angel

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since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

0 posted 2007-06-08 07:44 PM

(Hey y'all! I am approaching the end of completing my finals for the current university term, and after that will have many new summer poems and sing-alongs coming your way, so here's a re-post to tide y'all over these next few days as I wrap the term up in earnest, yay!

I've been listening to a whole lot of Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman, Tiny Bubble Band, Les Baxter, Clouseaux...all kinds of exotique/polynesian music lately, coupled with lots of Japanese power pop, Europop and space-age sounds, so a lot of my next summer postings will have quite a balance of 50's-vintage style tiki lounge appeal and cavity-ridden cosmological cobbler, yay!

Enjoy this poetic pearl of paradise again, and in case you missed it, my novelty ode to cicadas as well, "Zenaida the Magicicada", yay! )

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Hana Ka Hoe, Pa'a Ka Waha
(Part of: “Emmanuel Endorphin’s Serotonin Sundae”)
By: Noah Eaton
5/29/05
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Simple as a sunrise,
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recollections of vinyl lullabies,
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refrains of Makalapua, preview of paradise…
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honeycreepers hang like monkeys in the trees,
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sailing through this purple orchid menagerie,
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rising to the anthem of the Keawaiki chickadee…
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sandhill skippers hula with the western pygmy blue,
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south sea prom festivities across the Lahaini plumes,
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sharing breath with our ancestors in this ancient lagoon…
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so observe with the eyes,
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listen with the ears, heart and mind,
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paint your face with Kuilima sunshine…
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hana ka hoe, pa'a ka waha…
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hana ka hoe, pa'a ka waha
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hana ka hoe, pa'a ka waha
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ku`u makamaka…

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other"

Mother Teresa

Earth Angel
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since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

1 posted 2007-06-09 03:07 AM

Good morning, Kuilima Sunrise! I thoroughly enjoyed "sailing through this purple orchid menagerie" via the technicolour spill from thy Lahaini plumic quill!

If your aim is to delight your readers, then you can consider this poetic offering as mission accomplished!

"hana ka hoe, pa'a ka waha
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ku`u makamaka…"

Loveya!
EA
P.S. I wish you well on your finals!

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

2 posted 2007-06-10 05:44 PM

Enjoyed...James

Drauntz
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since 2007-03-16

Posts 2905
Los Angeles California

3 posted 2007-06-12 02:09 PM

This is beautiful. truly very beautiful.

enjoyed

have a wonderful day and eat well. and keep running, Angel.

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