The Poetry Marathon

6pm. Poem 16. Aloha Kakou (a letter poem prompt)

6pm. Poem 16.

Aloha Kakou (a letter poem prompt)

Aloha Kakou,
It’s been 25 days since you had to go. We’ve found some of you who left from land, but none of you who went into the ocean and did not come out. I hope we find you all so your bodies can be laid to rest, and your families and friends can begin to heal.

I hope that this letter finds you peaceful and possibly in a place to lay down your excruciating passings. I hope that some of the good and beautiful after life stories are true, and that you are experiencing all of them.

The world is grieving your leaving. We here at home mourn you silently with every step we take. It is still unbelievable that you are all gone.

Please know we are taking of those you had to leave here. They are safe and clothed and fed. They are still fire shocked, but they are safe.

I hope this gets to all of you. I will write again when I know more.

Me ke aloha nui loa, pumehana,
Your Maui ‘Ohana 🌺

P.S. forgot to tell you… the Banyon Tree has tiny new budding leaves! She is going to survive! If you get the chance, pop over and see for yourselves!

We miss you terribly!

A hui hou e malama pono over there! 🩷

2023 Full Marathon: Hour 16

Remember when we would go to the nursing home

and glue puzzles together and trade books worn out

and weighed down with the annotations of

literal generations – we painted sunflowers

and lilies for each room with a little old lady lacking

family or support. We made such a routine out

of being there to name the hummingbirds whenever

we lost someone to the garden and chasing fireflies

for the old men in walkers still in love with the

dream versions of their wives and kids – already passed.

 

I don’t know why the smell of pine sol and lemon

are so distinct to me when the memories were

actually so bright and the lessons that were

inherited within those walls so valuable – I don’t know

why I can write poems for Shirely’s mom

but when i want to write for shirley herself or

mourn Johnny (I’m late to that party too) the pen

just dries up so completely it can’t be salvaged

and the computer freezes and the internet dies

and the storm drags all my ideas to a city that

will never appreciate them the way I did.

 

Her birthday is coming up soon and she hasn’t

returned my calls for the last two years, but

I’ll go ahead and give her a ring anyway.

 

Wouldn’t you?

 

-M. Rene’

Hour Sixteen: Dear John

Dear John,

You never said it, but I sense you want to–

After all, an apology is due.

Forgive me for upstaging you,

preempting your magnanimity,

with a sorry reveal: blue for I’m sorry, baby, please forgive me, and

**********************pink for I was wrong and accept the consequences of my poor choices.

Yet, the gender myth alone is reason for humility, a clinging rationale and homage to hormones.

 

Choice, you say, free will, black and white, vote with your feet, let the market decide, and God’s will.

One nation under God, ironically, the one you defend (Do Gods need defending?)

would punish my daughters for whom they choose to love.

 

No justifications necessary, you are what’s been poured into you.

It’s on me.

I chose.

Sorry, not sorry.

Love,

Me

 

 

 

 

2023 Poem Three

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per Tristan Tzara’s “To Make a Dadaist Poem”, 1920

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H16.P16 – Spiritual Healing Ointment Instructions

Collect the first light of spring

A sun orchid petal

A cup ofwinter rain

a leaf of paper bark

---

simmer in the summer sun

until creamy

Apply lotion to body

Walk into the ocean

And allow the sea and the land heal you

Family, Hour Sixteen

Family Recipe

One mother
Three teen kids
One grandson
One husband
One father-in-law
Optional: three dogs and one cat

Blend together this bag of mixed nuts
slowly over time.
Bake for eleven years, but be careful!
It’s fragile, and may break if handled roughly.

“Whether Weather Report”

Hour Sixteen

They mentioned a tornado arriving home soon, and the (approximate) areas affected.

The tornado didn’t have a direct route, propelling so many establishments and families lives sacrificing and disrupted.

Rebuilding is a must.

So, when your grades arrived, like a sacrifice through a storm, naturally you’re not one, We have always spun around careful to cause you no harm, and although the winds have died down, the debris you will salvage alone, and work on campus from now on. DMW

16 Special

I was told chosen was special

No mention of given away

My younger sister also chosen

Opted out at thirty-one

Checked out without a word

Apparently not feeling special

 

New sibs appeared with DNA

To discover that my generous

Mother had kept her first

Sent me off to be chosen

And had another child to keep

I continue to look for special

 

As my youngest granddaughter

Announced to all that she

Was from another planet

I soon realized that this must

Be my true origin and reason

To finally believe I’m special

SNIFF SNIFF – #15

She stands beside me

I gather the daily news

Every single day

2023 Poem Two

CW: misgendering (mention); parental estrangement

Getting What You Want Isn’t Always Getting What You Want

It’s funny how putting 2,218 miles between

me and her and her words and

their ability to nag at at my will to exist

Doesn’t actually put space between

me and her words.

A new phone number doesn’t stop me from

wondering how she took it all.

Trying to squeeze out every last drop of will to

not unblock her on Facebook to see.

Only to fail and realize you can’t block the same person again for 48 hours.

 

It turns out 4 months is

the space I needed to miss her for once.

Actually, 4 months to have what I know is false hope that

she could be a better mother;

One who uses the right pronouns;

One who tries to work within my boundaries.

Funny how those months and those miles, somehow,

got her to listen and to fit into my boundaries.