Robert Louis Stevenson (2012 Poem In Your Pocket)

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by Sue Cowing

more lions
fewer lies

less news
more nudes

fewer stores
more stories

less real estate
more real grassland, woodland, farmland
not for sale

more adagios
fewer finales

fewer celebrities
more wild bees

please

Sue Cowing writes poetry and fiction for adults and children. She is the author of MY DOG HAS FLIES:POETRY FOR HAWAII'S KIDS, the novel YOU WILL CALL ME DROG, and an anthology of poetry and art, FIRE IN THE SEA. For some more poems, see her website.

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To Princess Kaʻiulani

by Robert Louis Stevenson

FORTH from her land to mine she goes,
The island maid, the island rose,
Light of heart and bright of face:
The daughter of a double race.

Her islands here, in Southern sun,
Shall mourn their Kaʻiulani gone,
And I, in her dear banyan shade,
Look vainly for my little maid.

But our Scots islands far away
Shall glitter with unwonted day,
And cast for once their tempests by
To smile in Kaʻiulani’s eye.

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