A  L  O  H  A  !

“who knows if the moon's 

 a balloon, coming out of a keen city

in the sky - filled with pretty people?”

 

 E. E. Cummings

" I've been looking for a girl like you -

 not you,

 but a girl like you. "

Groucho Marx

“The night walked down the sky

 with the moon in her hand.” 

 Frederic Lawrence Knowles 




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Pleasant Marsh

A  L  O  H  A !

PLEASE Click Away on these SHOTS:

" He who knows best 

knows how little

 he knows. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Humility does not mean

 thinking less of yourself

 than of other people, 

nor does it mean 

having a low opinion 

of your own gifts.

  It means freedom

 from thinking about 

yourself

 at all.  "

William Temple

" It wasn't until quite late in life

 that I discovered

 how easy it is

 to say

 "I don't know!"  

Somerset Maugham

" Too many people 

overvalue what they are not

 and undervalue 

what they

 are.  "

Malcolm S. Forbes

" All the birds have flown up and gone;
A lonely cloud floats leisurely by.
We never tire of looking at each other -
Only the mountain and I. "

Li Po

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The marshes

and the margins

have ever been

my comfort zone.

Queen of Uplift

because I need it

most.

Moving towards the 

Center

Tempting-

-but too soon

 swamped

by quicksand

of intransigence.

So back to the marshes

the margins;

No flags will half-staff

when I pass.

But I've known

Sunshine and

the Gold of Your

 Friendship -

Treasure indeed

for the voyage

ahead.

Thank you for being TREASURE!

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Gorgeous Normal Waikiki

A  L  O  H  A !

It's FRIDAY- All Aphorisms MUST go- Make an OFFER

Photo Clicking Encouraged

BEST weather on the planet is BACK!

You needn't be exhausted

 to rest.

 In fact exhaustion

 interferes

 with sleep and recovery

The SUN is a drug!

When working and visiting 

on-line,

get up, wave your arms

about,

and walk around the room

every 20 minutes - 

at LEAST!

And the Skies EXHILARATE!   Fill your lungs with THAT!

Life is a gift!

But it's 

NOT

an   I O U

( "I owe you" )

Mountains! How can anyone be happy without mountains?

An ill-considered remark

can shake the very ground

of amity.

Is it WORTH it?

Every day is the first day of someone's vacation (holiday). 

 Feel the joy?

It's just the magic of Waikiki ! 

Routines of daily life:

so tiresome, repetitive,

indispensable,

and in the end:

dear-




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Thank YOU so much

 for sharing your valuable time 

here with us!

Comments & simple "hellos" are appreciated-

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All Hawaii Celebrates!

The Great Voyaging Canoe

 that Hawaiians first sailed to pride and knowledge 37 years ago
TODAY

 is afloat again 

and planning a

 round the world cruise!

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'

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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!

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