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HAWAII ON A LARK (Memories of Flight)

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As you know, if you’ve spent some time rummaging around in this blog, I’ll ask my readers to share a self-made poem that has meaning and mana for them. I am always surprised and pleased by the work of the people who take the time to respond to this request. This latest lovely is a story-poem by fellow online entrepreneur Donna Holberg (a.k.a. “Deelilah”), a wonderfully down-to-earth storyteller who has lived a lively and adventuresome life. She has, she says,…

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PINPOINT “ENOUGH”

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Probably we’ve all heard the teaching stories – the ones that make us all nod as if we know something, the ones that make us mutter aphorisms and wisdom-words at each other about the consequences of greed and getting more and more. The stories are usually about some guy sitting all alone in a big old mansion on a hill somewhere. He has everything and yet he feels like he has nothing. (Usually the tale is about a guy, but,…

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BABY WISDOM

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As you know, I invite everybody to send in a poem of their own making that holds meaning and mana for them. I ask that the poets share the back-story about the poem. The poems are often a delight and the back-stories are always interesting. The following poem came from Andy Bia, a fellow online entrepreneur whose blog, BAD INVESTMENT ADVICE (And Ways to Avoid It), covers “the basics of the modern tools and markets” in the stock market world. …

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SOUL QUESTION

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Here’s another free-form poem by guest poet James Ray. It was posted on his site, WAR INC, in July, 2019. He says he wrote it while he was having his Semi repaired on a very quiet and clear night. “I looked up at the stars, as I’ve been known to do, and wished (not for the first time) that I did it with someone who could answer this question for me. All the easy questions of why and where here,…

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MISSING FEATHERS

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James Ray is a Google+ poet buddy who came looking for me. It was grand getting connected with him again. The demise of Google+ was a sad day for the poets who were having fun playing around with each other in it. I asked James to share a poem with us. He sent this heartful free-form poem as well as the back story. James says, “I have written my whole life, but never as much and never as public. Yet…

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POETRY SAVED MY LIFE

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This is Fleeky ONE. She’s an Internet buddy who grabbed my hand and enthusiastically dragged me off to play with her. Always a grand thing, I say! Fleeky frequents the Wealthy Affiliates platform, which is a learning place for people who spend their time poking at computer keyboards, building blogs and customer bases and all that stuff, twisting their heads around to learn to deal with all the complexities of that effort. (Most of us who hang at Wealthy Affiliates…

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MY BROTHER

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MysTerry Randolph is a long-time member of the Maui Live Poets. Very often her simple poems reach out and grab your heart and old memories open up. It’s what she does. About this poem she says, “This just came out of my heart. Wrote it for my brother in Idaho.”

I DID NOT SPEAK

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Here is another powerful poem by spoken poet Robert Maxie, Jr. He is sixteen years old and has been writing poetry since the age of seven. He has his own You-Tube site and his first book, BLEEDING INK, was published in 2017. More are on the way…. He says, “This poem is extremely important to me and my life. It’s a constant reminder that I’m not alive to make sure that I do and say what pleases everyone around me. …

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BORN A WOMAN

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Cinthia I. Albers is a fellow member of the Maui Live Poets Society. She’s a lifelong poet with a quirky sense of humor and her own tales to tell. She has laid claim to a “poet husband and a poet cat” and has collected her poems in a series of books that are available on Amazon.

HOPE IS A LIE

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This poem was written by Robert J. Maxie, Jr, who has a You-Tube channel that features his spoken poems. (Do check out his poetry site on Wattpad for more of his work.) Robert independently published a book of poetry as well, BLEEDING INK, which is available on Amazon.com. He says, “The back story of this poem isn’t as much in the past as it is what I’m living. I oftentimes recently have found myself in situations where I feel hopeless…

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