1.
In sunny clearings
suffused with sweetness,
sour passionfruit, fallen,
offers rich red pulp
shamelessly to all
who would partake
in its cycle.
2.
Nurtured aloft
young banyan survive
by strangling their host
with aerial roots
grasping for ground.
This is their nature
they can do no else
and participate long
in this world of strife.
But decades are kind
and beginnings fade;
with strength, they mellow,
returning life’s blessing.
This is also their nature.
On Pipiwai Trail
the giant wild banyan
stretches a welcome
to hikers and pilgrims:
Come meditate, or laugh
in a playscape of trunks
on my limbs and roots
sheltered in the unity
of my singular being.
suffused with sweetness,
sour passionfruit, fallen,
offers rich red pulp
shamelessly to all
who would partake
in its cycle.
2.
Nurtured aloft
young banyan survive
by strangling their host
with aerial roots
grasping for ground.
This is their nature
they can do no else
and participate long
in this world of strife.
But decades are kind
and beginnings fade;
with strength, they mellow,
returning life’s blessing.
This is also their nature.
On Pipiwai Trail
the giant wild banyan
stretches a welcome
to hikers and pilgrims:
Come meditate, or laugh
in a playscape of trunks
on my limbs and roots
sheltered in the unity
of my singular being.
3.
Under the towering bamboo glade
in a thicket of impenetrable profusion
lies a portal
brooding in cathedral dimness.
Muted shafts rise
from a pale litter floor
to their distant green destiny
stories above.
High shoots
clack and tap
an otherworldly composition
as the structure groans
in ghostly lament
of a heavy burden
perpetually borne.
4.
With pounding mechanical power
flying tourists
swoop, circle
grab their view
Kipahulu Valley
a magnificent painting
silver ribbons
snake sheer walls
to a canopy carpet
far below.
Satiated, the rumble recedes
and they are gone.
5.
Reality remains behind
where waters spill freely
from the glistening cliff
soaring over shallow depression
where hikers become pilgrims
of feathery mist.
A humble rock basin
receives the shower
and overflows in abundance
to supply sacred pools
far removed.
6.
Beyond the portal
Palikea carves deep
an inaccessible landscape
hiding channels and coves
in dangerous mystery.
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