"ohana" poems
It's nice to feel the warmth
The weather's never bad
Living surrounded by the wai
And by the sweet sounds
Of the ukulele.
Many people live aloha
Living proud of their culture
And friendly to another.
Ohana is important
And friends are part of it too.
A beautiful tradition
Giving of leis
To someone special
On a special occasion
Or just any given day.
It will be sad to leave one day
There's so much sunshine.
The mainland's all the same.
Here there's so much diversity.
I think I'll miss the food the most...
Oct 12, 2012
Oct 12, 2012 at 12:49 AM UTC
Supposedly too much television will rot your brain away
BUT... you can 't believe what everyone may say
KERMIT told us it ain't easy being green
TAYLOR SWIFT taught us people can be trouble & really mean
SEBASTIAN the CRAB told us it is better down where it is wetter
CINDERELLA taught us that eventually things will get better
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS told us over & over he's READY! he's READY!
THE TORTOISE taught us that being quick may not always work
KAYNE WEST taught us people are rude, interrupting, annoying & huge jerks
MR KRABS taught us some people are money hungry & greedy
LINDSAY LOHAN taught us some people are attention needy
DORA THE EXPLORER taught us to live our life as an adventure & go explore
SWIPER taught us to always go for more
SQUIDWARD taught us not everyone has happiness to share
PATRICK STAR taught us that some people's heads are filled with air
PLANKTON taught us that you can never give up on reaching your goal
ALICE's curiosity taught us don't chase white rabbits with pocket watches down their hole
PETER PAN taught us to live carefree & have no worries at all
HORTON taught us that a person is a person no matter how small
THE LORAX taught us to take care of our trees
SNOW WHITE taught us that there maybe more than what the eye sees
TOMMY PICKLES taught us sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do
THE GRINCH taught us that deep down inside, the cruel have hearts too
NEMO'S DAD MARLIN taught us you can't protect people from all & or any danger
BARNEY taught us not to talk to a stranger
TIMONE & PUMBA taught us "HAKUNA MATATA"
LILO & STITCH taught us no one gets left behind or forgotten, that is "OHANA"
SOUTH PARK taught us not to give a **** & some friends can be a huge ****** BAG
JUSTIN BIEBER taught us what isn't "SWAG"
STEWIE taught us that even if you're talking not everyone is listening
NELLY taught us that not everywhere has air conditioning "HOT IN HERRE"
DOROTHY taught us is you want to go home just click your heels three times & repeat "THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME"
SOUTH PARK'S TWEAK taught us that your underwear get stolen by the underwear gnomes
So much we've unknowingly managed to obtain
secretly stored in our brain
celebrities, songs, shows & even cartoons have taught us a lot
& that's what life lessons are all about
little hidden lessons & messages everywhere
& completely unaware you pass it on & share
Aug 17, 2015
Aug 17, 2015 at 4:00 AM UTC
is the love that would bloom to its fullest
when nobody gets left behind
Mar 31, 2015
Mar 31, 2015 at 11:39 PM UTC
When I say to my family, I don't mean the ones that raised me, I mean the ones that saved me.
When I say this is for my family I mean the one that raised me from the ashes of my past, the one that took the broken pieces of a girl and made her a mosaic, and showed her that even though her pieces don't fit she can still be beautiful.
When I say family I don't mean flesh and blood I mean heart and soul.
So, to my family, Thank You.
You have shown me what it's like to be loved, what it feels like to have someone there when you need them the most.
Thank you to the friend who stayed up messaging with me one Facebook, the one that reminded me that progress is progress and relapse happens and that messing up is okay.
I now know how it feels to know that someone will be there when I fall
Thank you to the friends who were there for me and ***** you to the ones who weren't
Thank you to the abusive friend who hates how much I dye my hair, for making me strong.
There aren't enough words in the english language to express how much I love you all, and even if there are enough words I can't seem to find them. So I will just say I love you, thank you for inspiring me and making me strong.
Ohana means family, but Hoaloha means friends and to me those are the same thing because the both mean no one gets left behind, even the awkward girl who makes bad puns.
Oct 30, 2014
Oct 30, 2014 at 7:55 AM UTC
My grandma once told me
ohana means family
as she baked hawaiian bread
and then as years progressed i thought to myself
well if ohana means family
why don't we receive christmas cards anymore
if ohana means family
why cant we go one dinner with the tv off and nobody talking on the phone
at dinner we watch a show about a loving family
if ohana means family why cant we be like that family on tv
you know instead of eating ice cream at home
why cant we go out for ice cream to show the world that we could be a family
if ohana means family why cant we make the commitment to be one
and i know deep down
none of us could ever live without eachother
but since ohana means family
why cant we be able to show it
my grandma was the one that told me the
meaning of ohana
i just wish she was still here today
to make sure our
ohana
was still close
Jul 2, 2013
Jul 2, 2013 at 4:34 AM UTC
Ohana means family and family is forever
But the times get rough when we all aint together
Who's fighting with who
And you're walking around crazy cause you don’t know what do.
When one says a name the other one flinches
and every time you turn around another one is ********
What happened to the times wed **** for each other
Take a bullet for each other
Now its turned into "We'd **** one another"
everyone's depressed cause none of us are talking
Then it gets worse when one of us goes walking.
Ohana means family but sometimes family aint forever.
Dec 25, 2014
Dec 25, 2014 at 11:33 PM UTC
Goodnight pumpkin, I luv you. L-U-V U.
Dear mom,
Nothing ****** me off more than misspelling the word Love.
If you’re not willing to put two seconds into a text or even a letter
to spell it correctly, then you need a ******* dictionary.
The only time you looked into a dictionary was to find words big enough so they could fit through ears but not into my brain making it easier for lies to flow out of your mouth like it is second nature.
The only truth that ever spit out of your mouth like lemon juice, was when you told us, not all lives have happy endings.
But when you were still here, and I was only eight,
you let me watch disney movies so I could learn my own fate.
One of the movies taught me that if I said Ohana means family,
that you’d respond with,
family means no one gets left behind, or forgotten
But you left your kids to pursue Your happiness,
Now every time you leave to Pennsylvania another memory of us flies away from the airport you call a body just like the planes you get on,
Your lies create a tornado that destroys everything in it’s path,
and my life is a flat ground so this spiral of emotions won’t stop until you do.
You circled your yin-yang arms around me for the first time in the hospital, that was the same night people in white coats handed you a certificate with my name written on it, Now anytime my name is brought up in a subject you pull your hoodie over your head as a sign of embarrassment.
I want you to feel the pain you have been giving me for the last 2
years when you hear this poem.
I want you to realize that you’re the reason my feelings are
scribbled down to make a mess out on paper.
Every night I make a new river with my tears and when I realize you are
lying to me, it makes waves of depression
and those waves, are created by earthquakes of anger.
These waves are strong enough to break through any hoover dam
made up of antidepressants and pills that will only make me what
you want me to be which is “normal”?
If you tell someone you love them at least have the audacity to
mean it.
Be a the definition of a mom and care about us and our
feelings, and not just your own.
Mom, I-L-O-V-E-Y-O-U
Ohana means Family, but no one said family would last forever. But
you always will last forever, in my heart
Feb 27, 2015
Feb 27, 2015 at 10:37 AM UTC
The house is made for six people
But I feel like I am the only the one
Always waking up to an empty house
Breakfast and lunch by myself
More like a homeless but with a shelter
In what part of "Ohana" do you mean
There is no such thing I supposed
All that crap you are saying about blood on blood is only an empty talk
*****
You.
Dec 12, 2013
Dec 12, 2013 at 8:25 AM UTC
Trembling hands
Hands all over you
Your skin I know so well
So well like our love
Deep and endless
Endless is what we thought
Thoughts are turning into reality
The reality of you
And me
Working through my disease
My disease we worked through four years
Why not make it forty more
Forty more ounces
Until I forget my mistakes
My mistakes landed me here
Here in my bed alone
Alone
Alone at night
When I coulda shoulda stayed
I should have stayed in the house
The house you bought for us
For our woulda been family
Family means our furbaby
Family is ohana
You never left me
I never wanted to leave.
I just always thought it was better
You without me.
May 31, 2015
May 31, 2015 at 11:55 PM UTC
This isn't a poem
this is a protest
This isn't equality,
it's injustice.
America the brave
America the free,
Where were you,
When he said, "I can't breathe?
How are we
the leading examples
so rooted with prejudice,
it's time to turn tables.
How does one be such a threat,
at one hundred and thirty five feet
that they must be shot, Six times,
It a miraculous feat.
Since when did murderers get off
without trial,
I mean even Republicans
won't give denial
America the brave
America my foot,
where were you,
"Hands up, don't shoot"
Its not all lives matter,
we know the white ones already do,
it's about giving others
what they're due.
Black lives matter,
Martin Luther King
gave his speech fifty years ago,
yet we're still fighting.
Have you heard the policemen,
they have no remorse,
the literal demonization,
and its going to get worse.
unless we can stop it,
and I'm hoping we can
Mike wasn't a thief,
this god forsaken land.
How are we so quick to judge,
Russia, Korea, China and more,
yet we **** innocent people,
and racism soars.
You want change,
you're blaming Obama?
Change it yourself,
Family means ohana
Yeah that's A children's movie,
but wait a moment yet
we could learn a lot
from children I bet.
They don't have biases,
they're only three
in their small minds
everyone's free.
But thats not the truth
It's cold and hard,
just the bodies
of a bright future,
Mike Brown
of a boy with a hoodie
Trayvon Martin
of a Twelve year-old boy
Tamir Rice
of a husband and father of six children
Eric Garner
You won't be forgotten,
as long as this world I'm living in
as long as it goes on,
you'll always be thought of
and what might've been.
Dec 13, 2014
Dec 13, 2014 at 12:31 AM UTC
you've gifted me
a galaxy
i was never able to see.
you gave me a family
i can call my home.
like how a prism
shines in every angle
struck by light,
you give me
all the colors of the rainbow.
i have found a family
miles and oceans away,
a family i know
that will make me do nothing
but stay.
Feb 13, 2017
Feb 13, 2017 at 10:43 AM UTC
Parents live in the shadow of the pali,
watching the young ones play.
They are reminded of the ones they left behind
in the world on the other side of the mountains.
And as they shut their eyes each night they know
their existence in the child's life is fading.
Can you hear them weeping?
All they do is live in the past.
The keiki live in the shadow of the pali,
tumbling around like rushing of water.
Running, twirling, and jumping;
They learn to dance in the shadows.
And as their eyes shut each night,
their quilt embraces their cold, shaking body.
They have long forgotten the touch;
their mother's lips on their foreheads,
and the warmth of their father's arms.
Can you hear them sleeping?
All they do is live in the present.
The old live in the shadow of the pali,
sitting on the chairs we have built
when we arrived so very long ago.
We have watched the young boys grow into men,
and the babies grow into young girls.
Storytelling and singing songs,
wishing to make a mark before we leave.
The best we do to create a better ohana.
Can you hear us teaching?
All we do is live in the future.
We are the people of Kalaupapa living in the shadows of the pali.
We are the forgotten, the left behind.
We watch as souls leave a lifeless body each day,
but our cheeks are no longer stained with tears.
No longer do we waste these tears that create an ocean.
A great love has created within our community.
Intertwined fingers connect the past, present, and future,
We are of a great diversity.
We have learned to enjoy the time we have left
and learned to love people no matter who they are.
Tonight we gather around the fire, dancing.
We live in the shadows, but we are the ones shining.
Can you hear our singing?
Feb 13, 2017
Feb 13, 2017 at 4:16 AM UTC
Please be my Disney
My happy ending to my ever after
My Cinderella to my Kingdom
Your voice reminds me of a certain little mermaid
Your hair golden but not so tangled
Your kiss breaks me from the curse of the witch
Your love reminds that I'm more human than beast
I'd go bananaswhenever I hear your name
I swore that I will never lie lest my nose gets longer
I have found my Ohana
You have stolen my being
I feel like flying with happy thoughts when I am with you
I'd give up my three wishes to be with you
I'd travel through space and time just to meet you
And even as we grow older, when we have wrinkles and white hair
I'd still love you inside this big balloon house happily forever ever after.
Jul 11, 2017
Jul 11, 2017 at 2:34 PM UTC
Dear, Arabia Ohana,
This brief but edenic stint shared en masse and peripherally has, a fortiori, made me brimfully ecstatic to have become apart of this ohana. This parcel is to impart my incredulously revered kismeted perspective on this pleasant billet symbiosis that I accredit to the deific clairvoyant who fondly granted our correspondence with utmost prudence. I cannot convince myself some lackadaisical serendipity materialized this perfectly pertinent vista. With profound sentiment I personally express how this considerably blessed boon has merited profuse gratitude, absolute admiration and the reverent affection from my entire family as of quandam, contempto and nigh.
With genuine gratitudinous laud
Jesse Revollar
Jul 5, 2018
Jul 5, 2018 at 11:17 PM UTC
I was born broken
synapses misconnected
only rerouted by the additives
from chemicals sometimes misspoken
Now I'm shattered
and the only one who can fault is that face in my mirror
I say it was the man who's namesake took on Goliath
like Goliath, he ravaged me and made me question
question who every one else saw in the mirror
but it's not his fault that I've changed
I let him start the film
the rated R film in my brain that won't leave me be
in day and in night
I scream you idiot, idiot, idiot
why? why? why?
every time I let it happen and wonder after
panting and crying what happened
what happened to Disney Movies, and Saturday shows
to happy sing-a-longs and family scriptures
traveling across the ocean to my hawa'ii to find my ohana
thinking to capture back
old lost spirits
idiot, idiot, idiot
why?why? why?
I look up at Him
I'm weak
your Mary has become a beggar
sainthood is gone
an angel has fallen and
wings have shattered
now to the next day
will I ask again, why did I do it again?
or am I free to live again?
Sep 4, 2018
Sep 4, 2018 at 4:54 AM UTC
I am from the disney life
The happily ever after dream
I am from the Ohana family
Where we are never forgotten or left behind
I am from capturing every moment
When i stick them on a wall of memories
I am from the smells of the new year
Lighting up the entire room
Like a wildfire, warm and bright
I am from save the planet
Where reduce, reuse, and recycle exists
I am from the kitchen
From the jars of love
I am from the joys of contests
From snowmen to races
I am from the blasts of the field
Woodwinds, Brass, and Percussion
I am from the heart of love
From helping the homeless
To helping those who have fallen
I am from a family of noodles
Europe and Asia
I am from the many
From many friends and family
I am from the family of arguments
And struggles
I am from a small town
Where character is everything
I am from the heat of the summer
And the chills of the winter
I am from a place where anything
And everything is possible
I am from the welcome home wags
Like trees dancing in the wind on a stormy day
I am from the heartbreak and the sarows
From the hello’s and goodbye’s
From the healthy and sick
I am from that happily ever after love
from the dumb mistake the people in horror movies make
I am that mistake
May 23, 2018
May 23, 2018 at 11:28 AM UTC