Rainflowers inspire today. Enjoy!
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Green Sea Turtle Lilly
Aloha poets,
Lilly pond and red tropical fish inspires today's poem. Enjoy!
Green Sea Turtles
Technically colorful, these toxins of ours
Rainbow sheen, blue-green to the shores
Teardrop-shaped in hues of true feelings
Day 63 oil sea, sloshings and reelings
Our hand of trust needs now to extend
Green Sea Turtles swim around the bend
Last seen headed east across Gulf's oily waters
Will they live to see our sons and daughters?
Hides and seeks in a Sargasso sheen
Dines on a seagrass of black gasoline
Dark paddle flippers glide and trudge
Joins in the fight against BP sludge
Green Sea Turtles
Technically colorful, these toxins of ours
Rainbow sheen, blue-green to the shores
Teardrop-shaped in hues of true feelings
Day 63 oil sea, sloshings and reelings
Our hand of trust needs now to extend
Green Sea Turtles swim around the bend
Last seen headed east across Gulf's oily waters
Will they live to see our sons and daughters?
Hides and seeks in a Sargasso sheen
Dines on a seagrass of black gasoline
Dark paddle flippers glide and trudge
Joins in the fight against BP sludge
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The Sainthood of Father Damien
Aloha poets, Poetry originally posted at my blog site in the Honolulu Advertiser newspaper Feb 24, 2009. Enjoy! Posted 2/24/2009 6:10 PM HST Aloha... Inspiration from Father Damien St. Damien De Veuster Across the pond from Belgium 1873 The little nest, Kalapapa, safe haven would be A task so noble simple acts of kindness In a time before the global, heartless, and mindless Duty and service in the despair of banish A kind heart arrived never to vanish Epidemic in a land so scenic and blue Father Damien De Veuster cared for you In service to the people with nerves of steel A sail away to Molokai had no broad appeal Acrosss the vast where truthful winds blow The seas rise and ebb as if to know Molokai monastery Ecclesiast From across the sea came help at last Canonization trickling along meager path In 1873 to fight Hanson's wrath Now a date is set at St. Peter's Square October 11th the world meets you there Father Damien De Veuster's story forever now told Homeland Hawaii across the wet and cold A simple hero in his own time A sainthood now to carry and chime Heroic service reveals no squalor To go alone in silence and simple valor Bells will toll in a Belgium Mission For a life of toil and banished victims Try for a sense of hope as it rises For love embodies all shapes and sizes Arrive at the momentt with faith on display Bridge a divide beyond a feeling of grave Duty as devotion's sanctification route Elevating life is no illusion Among the suffering with a warmth so human Now in far away lands of St. Peter Square St. Damien finds beloved Hawaiians there Back in Kalaupapa hallow the ground Home village Molokai love and joy abound |
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