• The foaming gleam of opalescence • On the fence on plastic bag ban • Thank you for plastic bag ban • Borrero’s swearing OK The foaming gleam of opalescence I don’t know if you guys accept poetry, but I
• The foaming gleam of opalescence • On the fence on plastic bag
ban • Thank you for plastic bag ban • Borrero’s swearing OK
The foaming gleam of opalescence
I don’t know if you guys accept poetry, but I thought maybe you might enjoy some verse that I have written about this beautiful island.
It is a musing of the traveler who asks himself the question: “Why are the oldest islands smallest?” and finds himself subsequently inebriated by the wondrous forces of fate around him, and thus unable to rest until his thoughts can be expressed on printed page.
Kaua‘i
narrow paths, they twist and turn
between the rocks and yellow fern
shaken as the stream is churned
by hills upon the mountain
permanence is looking silly
next to valleys of erosion
where the canyon carves a path
for the stream to meet the ocean
shores of lava under sand
distance mocks an understanding
could perception be so fooled
by an old reflection pool?
upon the landing looking outward
on the great Pacific jewel
gleaming opal of the hour!
as the eye draws out a cool,
still gaze upon the sheen,
the rays of yellow, blue, and green
spitting at the eye, and dripping through the mind
into every corner
every crevice thus adorned
with sacred knowledge of the greatness
that the savage earth has born
deep below the shining mirror
lies an ancient Vulcan tower
if in silence, one can hear her
gently sinking
jaws of opal thus devour
she is shrinking
millimeters by the second
she is drinking
all the liters in her presence
one by one
so this great volcanic isle,
her green magmatic effervescence
drifts into the tides’ turnstile
the foaming gleam of opalescence
Thompson Fletcher, Cocoa, Fla.
On the fence on plastic bag ban
I think the plastic bag ban is good but useless because it kills fish in the ocean but some people can keep using plastic bags. Well, others just don’t care enough to throw it away in the trash.
I think the people should choose what they want to do with the plastic bag ban. I mean, sure it will save some fish in the ocean but it won’t make much of a difference to the island of Kaua‘i or the other Hawaiian islands.
So I am for either sides of this ban.
Michael Albuja, Lihu‘e
Thank you for plastic bag ban
The situation I want to comment on is the banning of the plastic bags. I want to address the people who put that in motion.
Thank you! You’re helping our ecosystem and I feel like you’re changing it for the better. Keep at it.
Without people like you we could have destroyed the natural beauty of our island and our waters.
We’ll have a better environment for our future generations and tourist that come to the island. But mentioning the tourists, I would have to say that it’s good that their money helps to keep us afloat, but we don’t need the extra pollution.
We need to find a better source of an economic income, and if they come to Hawai‘i they should just visit, not stay here and take the jobs of all of the Hawaiians who are struggling out there.
Jamal Harris, Lihu‘e
Borrero’s swearing OK
In response to coach Borerro’s article on Sunday Jan. 8, I feel that he was right to stand up for what he believed in.
I was one of the players on the Kaua‘i High School football team and I never really thought anything about the swearing. And although I was never sworn at, I heard pretty much everything that the coaches said.
Yeah, I probably would have been a little offended if the coaches were to swear at me, but that would be because I’m a girl. And the swearing was never so bad that it needed to get any of them out of the coaching staff. And I noticed that the boys would only be yelled at if they weren’t doing what the coaches were telling them to.
Maybe the coaches went a little overboard on the swearing sometimes, but I believe that they only had good intentions at heart. And like Borerro said, “A high-level team can not get to a high level with ‘can you please?’”
Therefore, swearing is not always necessary, but you do need it sometimes.
Caitlyn Rapozo, Kapa‘a
