Island to Island for Haiti

Aloha Poets,
Site of Island to Island for Haiti happening this Friday at Hilton Hawaiian Village in the Hawaiian island of Oahu.


An Anthropomorphic Apologetic Approach

Personal relationship often amiss in tactless scorch can go awry
As inappropriate appreciations approach back porch on the sly
That place where smokers snicker to keep their options open
My wish to extend goodwill and appreciation adopts a new notion

In extending a tradition of common and complete courtesy
Paleodiets of summer radish relish to summon more to see
The indignation of a double designation brings on indigestion
While extraordinary kindness prompts expressions of indiscretion

Thank you for the kind mention of congratulations and the money sent
In a final detour toward humor the congregation got funny and went
Won't someone please put my name on an anti-whaling ship?
Even now decisions to write you fill my heart but to you I'm a blip

As assistances in life waver among stationary platitude
You acknowledge your gift on stationary to show gratitude
Preserved for persuasive pacts and the purity future perusals
This song of thanks, an invitation of kindness, parodies further refusals

Hospitality of kindness contributes in goodwill in a complimentary way
Membership of family so dear to the heart, I think only hours away
Longing for an undercurrent of payoff laughs as standup tanks
I would like to express my appreciation in a moment of thanks

In this small note ever so short on words yet big on heart
I thread my ways seemingly pleasant, brief, and smart
A mention of memoir threatens to appropriate a God-given gift
Bridging rifts to drift in benefit as only two hearts can lift

To reciprocate is legion and holds promise clear and so dear
When the storm's payload comes we will all be barely here
As mixed messages wander and wonder and thud aloud
Thunderous storms offer up mudslides and a boisterous cloud

Specific is better, though the Atlantic may always be yearned
Payoff laughs never hand themselves over must always be earned
Prose posse concurs when in a lurch for time to marry such
It's always better to use simple thanks, thank you very much

Sincerity compliments and complements hearts sincere
Barely habitable linguistics sides with blunder barely there
Merit a letter to examine your sway with compadres and kin
Watch in financial infancy some major mud slingers on gin

This personal note of gratitude initiated in single initials
A gift has been given as all earnest sincerity eats its victuals
Kindness not overlooked is blindness forsook or even for taking
Kind gifts offer their assistance for love to cook in ovens baking

So anthropomorphic this personal note now hand written
Appreciation's many shapes and sizes somehow remain smitten
This personal note of gratitude for your unexpected personal gift
In our little household, even our sleepy cat gets a purse and a lift

Your kind gift to our new family today is most generous
We felt your kindness in a wonderful way as if ghosts render us
Please feel free to stay in touch, drift by as much as you like
Both of us were touched by your act of sheer kindness alike

It was extremely thoughtful of you to send a talking gift
We still appreciate the kindness and felt the wind shift
Mountains denuded by wildfire make wide-mouthed frogs hop
The gift you sent gave us the pride even couch dogs can adopt