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Places that Once Were
Published by AVAJADE7 | Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:31 AM
Inspired from the many stories my father used to tell me.
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Woman
Published by KRISTINESENDY | Sunday, June 22, 2008 11:57 PM
Behind the fragile countenance
Amidst the plaintive eyes
Despite the ponderous load
It's a wonder why she's as gentle and mild
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Flight
Published by KRISTINESENDY | Sunday, June 22, 2008 11:56 PM
even without wings
i am free-
to forget what is hurting
to me;
even without wings
i can fly-
to soar above pains
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Asthma
Published by KRISTINESENDY | Sunday, June 22, 2008 11:55 PM
Like a newly-caught
fish brought ashore,
Here I am gasping for breath..
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Slowly...
Published by KRISTINESENDY | Saturday, June 07, 2008 11:31 AM
I was on an indefinite hiatus from December 21, 2008 due to unforeseen circumstances.....it was another difficult phase in my life...but then again, on January 30, 2008, here I come slowly getting out of my self-made cocoon....
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Tutu's Garden
Published by PLEOPARD | Monday, May 19, 2008 3:13 PM
Eight chosen lines(or pieces of them) from a gathering of 53 submitted by festival goers on Sunday. Their names and lines as submitted follow the poem. And you said you couldn't write poetry!
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AWAY TOO LONG
Published by JUJUBE | Monday, May 19, 2008 9:45 AM
This is a poem from some of Sunday's lines.
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KITES INTO THE SKY
Published by ANN INOSHITA | Saturday, May 17, 2008 9:32 PM
This poem was born on the day of the Saturday festival from the lines of eight writers. Below are the original lines followed by the final poem.
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WRITE WHATEVA!
Published by JEAN TOYAMA | Saturday, May 17, 2008 4:58 PM
Here is the poem created from today's (Saturday) festival based on the lines provided by seven writers. Their original lines precede my poem.
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Featured Issue
Bananaheart and Other Stories
ISBN: 0-910043-33-7
In this her first collection of short stories, Marie Hara shares both new and previously published works that explore her characters’ complex connections to the past. Spanning nearly 100 years of the experiences of Japanese women in Hawai‘i, these stories introduce a picture bride, a plantation worker, a domestic servant, a hapa-haole girl growing up in post-war Makiki as well as these women’s successful but often troubled middle-class descendants. Hara explores how race, class, sexual politics, and the continuing influence of the colonial past shape the lives and choices of her female protagonists. These stories from the soul of immigrant Hawai‘i, reach out and find the commonality of all people.
"Bananaheart is a heart courageously exposed—the heart of a warm, brave, truthful hapa woman. She invites you into her loneliness, her longing and tenderness and shows you a life that is deeply lived and exquisitely observed."
—Joy Kogawa, Obasan and Itsuka
