Paradise Penguin

Aloha Poets,
Tropical penguin inspires today's poem. Enjoy!

Paper Hearts

In dreams of epiphanies and such
A little sojourn means so much
Small parts of heart all but to touch
In your own mind attains to clutch

Upon pencil in hand from within
Heart smiles at brain's little grin
Rocky at times is really no sin
Page blank stares up under a chin

Perish the thoughts so tossed around
Cherish the wonder of words newly found
There at the table with feet on the ground
Pencil in hand black graphite ground

Find a foe you thought didn't care
Extract some words spin a phrase there
Don't be frightened your heart joins the fare
Reaching deep on blank page's double dare

To view a foe is to view the attraction
In maps of incoming against frames of retraction
Know yourself well to throw truths into fraction
White paper beckons for you to gain traction

Mere shifts of focus and now it starts
Remorse gauges who gets those parts
Then to spur the repair from hurtful darts
Pencil on page brings paper hearts

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Lost in Hawaii

Aloha Poets,
The debate goes on regarding the TV show "Lost." How is this for a perspective?


Granted, "Lost" is no "Casablanca"... maybe more of a combination of Casablanca and Mario Bros.

Think of Jack and Kate on the island in "Lost" as in parallel worlds with Rick and Lisa at Rick's Cafe' in "Casablanca," encountering a vast assortment of characters who seem to collect sporadically around them for various reasons, all with the ultimate goal of getting out of there.

Jack and Hurley, in a sideways world, are the Mario Bros. who wander the island's paths, hatches, and tunnels as if in a "plumbing system" full of odd monsters and snares. Not only do they evade death, but a permanent one as well.

In our brave new world where young mixed media audiences seem to be increasingly bored with web sites, blogs, and MySpace and... increasingly satisfied by instantly updating on Facebook and Twitter, it's no wonder "Lost" enjoys both critical and popular acclaim with its quirky instant plot twists and 14 million tongue-in-cheek viewers per episode.

After all, who really wants anybody to stay killed?

Cherry Super Ferry

Aloha Poets,

Cherry super ferry inspires today's poem. Enjoy!


Formula and Motif in Surface Tension Relief

Brothers for each other is all we need
through this rough patch of thin ice
Quiz me later on how we lived to bleed
this story somehow got rescued twice

Appreciated apprentices listen hard
with their internal indemnity device
Axed in the sawdust as life's bard
framed within the halo of nice

Rank upended in needs of the parable
possessions positioned in positive frame
Books remain unwritten though probable
smitten with questions of who's to blame

Tools to turn on, is it really my turn
as safety nets become so livid
Effective veneer wrong to so many burn
plays to enjoy life in the vivid

Power tools its way through thicknesses
to spray openings of love finding ways
A family chore adheres in sicknesses
as to appreciate apprenticed pays

In a muddled class recurrence as if in a blast
furnace epic inspectors stall finding the flame
Living becomes a given as the given come last
or is it turned around just to point blame

New places arrive in benefit of mine
eyes in times of a troubled vein
Let's get to a connection eat donuts sublime
confection tries to be so vain

Framed in a halo in a kitchen eating
with jello we broaden constituent base
Locally casuals eye to get better seating
a casualty for all to see face to face

That's not so great that destiny of late
you depict as if reflected on a griddle
Confidence rains on parades of fate
as horses rescue me from the middle

Act on that thought to actualize the hot
in fact what you bought still rankles
Was I happy giddy and snappy at what I got
to lose all that grief through my ankles?

Is this business as usual a busy perusal
of blindsided formula and motif
The under pinnings in mind of that refusal
as signs undermines the ways of grief

Inside life strides with embattled strife
how can we all scratch that surface?
Sound footage surrounds somewhere nice
why don't we just paddle out and surf it

Negativity rules in quarks and joules
as on the surface serves its purpose a bit
Have to admit I had a little fit with the rules
their surface area volume ratio was infinite

What that really means is more than jelly
beans in tendencies to act natural
But here;s the thing that's more than Nelly
in true dazzled array being factual

Abysmally small we dropped a little ball
now the whole in my heart looks up to me
A clang for the better I mean change for all
I mean butter is bitter well you'll see

That was a last flip in a pool continental
cool after my little soup song bombed
The jury now rests in this little haunted rental
unbearable truths or whatever comes along

One leads to another in magnetospheric
bother delivered in hazy hemlock
Her arsenal of technique really did hear it
wreaking havoc in my lazy hammock

Dilemmas anew still try to skew
screwing up what I already know
Narrative elation can still build a nation
except in the mist of magneto's hello

Your little journey of gain has left its small
pain among other stains in fun chase
Did I mention a sure surface where all
get a grip if only they surface in haste

Reflection is the new teacher you don't to bring
preacher or a short wave blue light blue blocker
With dietary silicon bone density bling
its eerie smile of approval is the real shocker

Importance rules among all those jewels
somebody really had the wrong parable
The chase is on so put that face on let's
face it this surface tension is unbearable

Blind burials the miller who grinds out that
killer we all know now as a time chaser
Scratch your head and the surface in
service of your own little shark frenzy caper

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Tropical Popsicle

Aloha Poets,
Tropical popsicle inspires today's poem. Enjoy!

The Last Living Witness

Rigorous questions emerge to engage on the fly
Instinctive results stick to land one more try
Miniskirts and whiskers skirt a tunnel vision issue
Emissive memories wish upon a star to miss you

Reminiscent feminine fashions in ornate
Minimalism rises through a fissure in the back gate
No particular credential has heartfelt ever known
As versions of the truth down the river get blown

Living on a group of islands is one preferred way
Gigantic fancy somehow stays across the bay
Hereditary gestures to signal appropriate remedy
Leaving delegations so delicate to go fight the enemy

Impact is the dreamer in all manner of miscue
Regulators interact to come view the rescue
Believing chief mischief is for all to behold
Steady hands readily hand the squeamish over to bold

Disabilities incorporate to now constitute a tribe
Deliveries to the fortunate run away to hide
Discrepancies rising raise red flags of issue
Dynamics of greed cause the simple life to miss you

Never they stray far from those confines of danger
Cleverly riding cars not a horse like the lone ranger
Though mothers teach requiem and stories of a manger
Lovers still depend upon the kindness of a stranger

Chocolate Milk Tree

Aloha Poets,
Chocolate milk tree inspires today's poetry. Enjoy!

Unclear Nuclear Uncle

As usual, fashionable scales the relative back a bit
Here fool's conquests of logic throw another fit
Searching for a turning point in the reflection of it all
A glorious rise moves on before the coming fall

Textology strikes with the heartiest of shows
Final pow-wows bows out as old times come to blows
The absence or presence stays consumed by quest
These wants as force of nature remains anybody's guess

Sequence plays partly to a crowded room
Fishy finishings come full into shrouded bloom
Sequential summaries summon thinly abroad
In piles of dust on empty shards of shelves and pod

Rising tension storms right past the next thought
Amidst tents of wonder that seem to last or not
Clearer now comes a foggy past into play
Destination dreamers move fast to get away

Full attention to duty makes an unsightly arrival
As unclear nuclear families question survival
Passionate passages come back into play
Becoming your camouflaged colleague for the day

Small to summarize to say it just as it is
Rising tension begins to make a smoother fizz
Readiness hides within its plunderous night
Steadiness chides for another thunderous fight

Say it from the inside of that clench-hearted fist
Call out beyond a mighty consumption of quest
Go it alone from darkness to the slight of day
Badgered support waits for another heave at a say

All yours now goes lost in that texture
A brush with death paints a happier picture
Arbitrary military hears the next mortal cries
As casting spells it dream world into the skies

Rhythms change in forms of simple conversation
Pleasures range as once a pleasant destination
Now a giant spectacle this thing they call love
Gain control from somewhere even try from above

A banging head gamer then comes your way
Arresting looks to spread a distracting spray
Mistaken identity arrives with its genetic logic and all
Just a believability hillbilly making a last curtain call

Certain squalls can silently see and feel their own weight
As untested virtues beg to barter to hesitate
Assertions wait their turn quietly outside the gate
As passage sages ponder another page's fate

Entrepreneurial hunts are novelists for all
Divisiveness out slides a collective recall
Nobody here truly ever gains control
In places where unclear nuclear dreamers troll

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