Punk - Tuation

A  L  O  H  A !

" The mystery of life

 is not a problem

 to be solved

but a reality

 to be experienced. "

 Art Van Der Leeuw

 " And it shall come to pass,

 when I bring a cloud 

over the earth,

that the bow shall be seen

 in the cloud; "

 Genesis 9:14

" The soul of sweet delight, 

can never be defiled. "

William Blake

" Inside my empty bottle 

I was constructing a lighthouse

 while all the others 

were making ships.  "

Charles Simic 

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A Period is basic.

And simple.

The end of one

idea.

The Question Mark

meanders around

before it finds it's way

down

to the root of things,

where it balances

on a ball-

like a seal-

And claps.

Exclamation Point:

when you throw a can of paint

across mother's floor,

it makes a shocking line

that points right

to the thrower:

you!

The look on mother's face

is the meaning

of the exclamation

point.

And she may point

 also.

Comma,

catch a breath.

And a Semi-Colon

is a comma

with a graduate degree.

This is the deep truth

that  I understand 

of these

 "marks."

The rules of grammar

 were written

to try and explain

the greatness

in the speech

 of talented people.

But it always gets away

from the rules-types

like lightening escapes

the jar they try to put it in.

'Exception that proves the rule'

my elbo!

I always understood

that I had that spark.

Like brown hair. 

Spoke and wrote

beautifully

just knowing

what would sound

and say it

best.

So I never bothered  

with the rules,

and still do not know them

today.

I am a writer

not a grammarian.

Aren't YOU

glad?!

Join us in comments and

'say what'

                        Fondly, cloudia

 

Evening Eve

A  L  O  H  A  !

" Evening, EVE, the Mother Face of Night Tiptoes. . . "

 " Joy descends gently 

upon us

like the evening dew- "

 
Jean Paul

Rainy Day Waikiki

A  L  O  H  A  !

This could be Waikiki 

a hundred years ago: 

marshy, dreamy, wet 

- a place between-

between the mountains, 

the plain, and the reef. 

 The Hawaiians cultivated

 fish ponds here,

The Chinese  cultivated

 rice and ducks, 

The Americans raised hotels

 on the old 

Royal Compounds

Walter Dillingham 

had the only dredging machine in the islands.

His society friends gave him the contract

to dredge the Ala Wai Canal,

dry up the little farms,

make firm ground to

BUILD!

When it rains,

 the canal runs brown 

with runoff

 from the Ko`olau Mountains

 so near.

Of course,

 Waikiki is still low-lying

 and flood-prone 

as this marriage of nature

 & technology

 shows.

All the tall buildings 

and hotels

operate sump pumps

like the great Cruise Ships

 they are!

When air masses move 

over thousands of miles of 

open ocean,

 they grow cocky & confident.

They forgot what rising up

 and over mountains

 can do to them,

 forming clouds, adding velocity

to their winds.

This isn't your continental weather-

Sea Storms Rage

but the islands

have not sunk

yet!

Though this guy did look a bit

 water-logged.

 He inquired about an audition

 with Daryl

of On The m104  Fame.

I told him

 that only New York City canines

qualified.

But at Pau Hana time

("after work / happy hour") 

the sun often falls below 

the cloud cover

smiles on the sea

and shoots the land

some pretty golden grins

too,

 promising a better day

tomorrow. . . 

. . . Here in Magical Waikiki!

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Thank for visiting!

Leave YOUr grin

in comments-

                 Warmly, cloudia

The path, On The Path,

Empath?

A L O H A !

" Without enough to eat,
life is nasty; 

with merely enough to eat,
it feels empty."

Adam Gropnik

" He who indulges in falsehood

 will find the paths of paradise

 shut to him." 
Abu Bakr

" The capacity for delight
is the gift of paying attention.  "

                                          Julia Margaret Cameron 

" All paths are the same, 

leading nowhere. 

Therefore, pick a path 

with heart!  "

Carlos Castaneda

" All along the untrodden paths

 of the future, 

I can see the footprints

 of an unseen hand.  "

Boyle Roche

Handprints?

" I can't say as ever I was lost, 

but I was bewildered once 

for three days.  "

Daniel Boone

“You cannot travel the path 

until you have

 become the path 

itself.”

 

Buddha

Thank You for joining hands

across the empyrean. 

                Join us in comments, share what arises!

      

                    Warmly, cloudia

the Shy Turt-Ocerous

A   L   O   H   A !

 

" A little onward

lend thy guiding hand

 

 

 

 

 

To these dark steps,

a little further on.”

 

 John Milton 

" In a land of immigrants, 

one was not an alien

 but simply

 the latest arrival.  "

Rudolf Arnheim

 

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Fish school together

turtles swim

alone.

I must be

a turtle,

For following

an idle current

agrees with my

constitution:

finding, musing,

doubling back.

Yes,

I like to marinate

in Thick,

Rich, Creamy,

Velvety

Solitude.

Spiced librally

with great blog pals

and Alohas

in passing.

And were I

Wealthy

I'd wander

just the same. 

 'Even as the lion

 not trembling at noises, 

even as the wind 

not caught in a net, 

even as the lotus leaf 

untouched by the water,

 so do thou wander

 alone like the

 rhinoceros.'

 Buddha

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Rhinoceros!?

That's ME!

YOU?

                  Warmly, cloudia

Illusion Lounge

 A  L  O  H   A ! 

picture-clicking incouraged

"Humanism - 
the belief that , while our lives

should be devoted to happiness, 
they are impoverished 

without and idea of 
happiness

deeper than mere property-bound 
prosperity.

The special virtue of freedom 
is not that it makes you richer

 and more powerful

but that it gives you more time 
to understand

what it means to be 
alive. "

Adam Gropnik

" I do not believe

 they've run out of 

surprises. "

Larry Niven 

" The distinction

 between the past, present
and future 

is only a stubbornly persistent

 illusion. "

                                                                     Albert Einstein 

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Life itself

-they say-

is an illusion

from which

we awaken.

More and more

we know that

less and less

is

"Hard Fact.'

We live in the 

interpretation zone.

My narrative

and yours

are very different.

My inspiring leader

is your bete noire.

And vice

versa.

It's pointless

to be angry

at a dreamer.

For in doing so

we turn our dreams

into nightmares.

Sleep on!

All I can do

is to love you.

For after all,

in this realm of

dreams,

and sudden awakenings

what is there

but fellowship?

Sail on,

sail on

your cloud of dreaming.

And thank YOU kindly

for anchoring it

here

for a while.

                        fondly, cloudia

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Lava Claims Last House

Jack lived here,

 the last one in the neighborhood, 

as lava flowed all around;

Walking 4 miles to the nearest road.

Today Madame Pele 

claimed his home 

and sent him packing 

for the last time: