A L O H A From Honolulu!
Allow yourself to trust joy
and embrace it.
You will find you dance
with everything.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beyond the Chinese Cemetery
Down through the lush green valley
The sun paints the sky
Waikiki towers rise down there
Like distant tiny giants
clustered at the shore-
Born under the Manchu-led
Qing empire,
final imperial dynasty in
Chinese history.
Lived in the last years of the
sovereign Kingdom of Hawaii,
experiencing the overthrow.
Citizen of the short-lived Republic.
Died in the (U.S.) Territory of Hawaii
just three years before US
Statehood for the Isles.
What stories he must have lived!
Be not inhospitable to strangers
lest they be angels in disguise.
[Volkswagen Van Mailbox!]
In the cherry blossom's shade
there's no such thing
as a stranger.
Kobayashi Issa
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Love You,
Magnanimous Pixie
&
Cloudia
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