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Kalikiano Kalei

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Books
· Coruscated Confabulations: Oh! The Humanity!

· Marooned on Moloka'i: Coconuts, Dreams & Death

· Saunas and War Toys

· Falling Off the Mountain (poems)

· Santa Cruz Sargasso, Berkeley Fog (poems)

· U S Chemical and Biological Defense Respirators


Short Stories
· The Jade Compass

· A Plethora of Papas

· A Great Many Moons Ago...

· Catenary Roe, a tail (sic) of Old Monterey

· The Great Venuezuelan Beaver Cheese OODA Loop

· The Saint Valentine's Day Mass Accretion (a short story)

· Everything you know is wrong...(part II)

· Everything you know is wrong...(part1)

· An Arrow for Amaterasu

· Outdoor Bob and the leaf-blower from Hell...


Articles
· Field Notes on the Species 'Homo sapien'

· Iaido: The art of Japanese sword draw...

· Obesity: To be or not to be?

· And now a word from Our Heavenly Host...

· Joseph Pujol, Le Petomane, star of the Moulin Rouge (1887)

· NorCal Coastal Cold Water Reflections, 1989/2007

· The Gold and Azure Frontier

· We the Pimples... (or) a Child's Garden of Constitutional Verses...

· Welcome to Californication, suckers!

· Confessions of a 'Yellow Fever' afflictee...


Poetry
· Solar fire of the Heavens...

· Find her in everything...

· Petrushka's Remorseful 5-Year Plan...

· The starward path: A tribute to Laika and Gagarin

· Hair today, groan tomorrow...comrade

· Merely a turn of the wheel...

· Crush depth

· The Doorway, twixt Heaven and Hell...

· Puddle Worms

· Happy Saint Valentine's Day Mass Accretion

         More poetry...
News
· Every writer needs egoboo (an ego boost)

· Two new books of poetry now released and available

· Santa Cruz Sargasso, Berkeley Fog (poems)

· Marooned on Molokai (a Hawaiian travel journal)

· Local Writer Not Slated to Receive Steinbeck Foundation Recognition

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Love With Bilge-Pump

by Kalikiano Kalei — Read all 118 poems by Kalikiano Kalei


Off with all thim jewels 'round yer purty neck, missie! We're wont ta bury thim somewheres in the Adriatic (or is it the Baltic?...or the Agean?...or the Caribbean?...oh, the hell with it!...jist hand 'em over, smart like!). Arrr! Arrr! Woof!

Tuesday, September 22, 2009


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LOVE WITH BILGE-PUMP


A few, it’s true , can sail the blue
Of turgid, oceanic woo.

Not new, say you, concerning rue,
That might arise from such ado.

Our crew of two must bid adieu,
To part the pooping seas anew.

Or spew on through Sargasso's slough,
And wallow glumly in its goo.

 

 



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Reviewed by Dawn Anderson
Reviewed on September 30, 2009
Love your choice of words...original, as always...it's nice to read you again.

Reviewed by John Flanagan
Reviewed on September 23, 2009
Kalikiano,
Excellent word choice, interesting and different approach, original in thought.

John

Reviewed on September 22, 2009
Have missed seeing you, Kalikiano.

Clever wordage: love how you end each line. Well done!

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.


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