Give Thanks
For the papaya
Moonwalk picked,
Tangy and sweet,
Give Thanks
For the Shama’s flute-like song,
For the golden koi fountain
Side-stepping into the spring-fed pond.
Give Thanks
for the Japanese Koi
as they leap, dart, and turn
In their foreign tongue.
Give Thanks
To three well-fed South American Pacu,
Body rolling fins carving the surface,
exposing tender chins, succulent and white.
Give thanks
For Hawaiian rains that
Smeeze down the Koolau
Quenching the sashaying palms.
And Give Thanks
To the one who Roger Rabbits
In this grooving nest,
Built with Dougie love.
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C. S. De Dona
Author, Poet, Photographer, domestic violence survivor, and naturalized immigrant, Cornelia is currently an Arts and Letters member of The Southwest Florida Branch of The National League Of American Pen Women.
Cornelia lived in Kaneohe, Hawaii, for thirty-six years. Also, seven years in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York. She now resides in North Fort Myers, Florida.
Her poems and photography are published in print, online, and in Rain Bird, a literary and art journal of the University of Hawaii's Windward Community College (2008-2013).
In 2013, Cornelia received Rain Bird's Kolokolea Poetry Prize for her poem, "Speaking French."
In 2016, her chapbook "Hawaiian Time," entered in the National League of American Pen Women's Vinnie Ream contest, was awarded third place in their inaugural multi-discipline category.
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