Ka Mua

First star, no Venus,
but a star
whose light was belched out in gassy mass
eons ago, long before
this island spewed forth in magma from the sea
winks between twin palms.
First night, the first to appear,
a tear, perhaps
beneath a Cheshire moon.
Or perhaps, as days sped by
overflowing in memories and pictures taken,
a bright wish to return
to where whales cavorted and danced upon the waves,
where mere words faltered to describe
and the thesaurus fell closed with a whimper.
New pronunciations and an appreciation for sound and meaning
bloomed as ohana evolved, revolved
and spun quick magic:
forming a bond, tying us together,
becoming a thread no distance can sever.

Moon blossomed
as the star edged closer to the northern palm.
Time shrunk then stretched;
much like the endless tides that wait upon no man,
but ebb and flow and it all became
but a moment's perspective
in how one viewed isolated breaths:
when molten lava
spewed into the sea or
a whale breached or a coconut fell.
E hele mai i ka hale hou
Come home again
rustles in the broad leafed plants outside my window,
splashed in incoming waves
and whispered in the wind as the moon waxed.

Maui cast his magic hook and we are caught -
fighting neither capture or the fact
that we are released: for if we do not leave we cannot
then return. Part of the eternal dance,
the music reverberated within,
a drumming of the heart, a rhythm of being,
a wanting becoming a wish becoming a desire...
becoming.
Images float, blithely. Circling, spinning,
blooming into insight, petal-ing out in fragrant streams
keeping memory in the fore, a lei encircling,
ensorcelling for we are truly bewitched.
May the spell never be broken.

Aloha means more than goodbye or hello or love:
it is a way of giving, a way of living,
a way of being. Having been bathed in aloha
there is no going back to the before,
rather a bringing of it with us where ever our footprints lead.
Aka, alaila pau ka mea he poai nei
(But then all is a circle)
and our circle shall close
to run upon itself endlessly as the sea
when we return, reeled in by Maui,
to our home within home.


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In the Hawaiian language,
a is pronounced ah,
e is pronounced like long a
I is pronounce like long e
o is pronounced like long o
and u is pronounced like 00 in room.

Every vowel is pronounced; each syllable being a consonant and a vowel or simply, a vowel.

The kahuna David Bray interprets this code as "Come forward, be in unity and harmony with your real self, God, and mankind. Be honest, truthful, patient, kind to all life forms, and humble." He also stated that to the Hawaiian of old, Aloha meant "God in us."
So far, within Aloha, we have found an explanation of our place in the world and a code of ethics to help us with our interactions in the world. The only thing we are missing is our "prime directive" while we are here, and that too can be found within the root words that make up Aloha.
alo, 1. sharing 2. in the present
oha, joyous affection, joy
ha, life energy, life, breath
Using Hawaiian language grammatical rules, we will translate this literally as "The joyful sharing of life energy in the present" or simply "Joyfully sharing life".

- http://www.huna.org/html/deeper.html