{"id":7561,"date":"2021-01-21T21:12:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T21:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=7561"},"modified":"2021-01-21T21:12:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T21:12:49","slug":"keep-da-faith-penelope-a-poem-by-joe-balaz-in-hawaii-creole-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/keep-da-faith-penelope-a-poem-by-joe-balaz-in-hawaii-creole-english\/","title":{"rendered":"KEEP DA FAITH PENELOPE. A Poem by Joe Balaz in Hawai\u2019i Creole English"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nOvahnight success?!
\n 
\nIn many cases wen you investigate
\ndats really not how it is.
\n 
\nSometimes people
\ngo on wun long Odyssey
\n 
\njust to get to wheah
\ndey eventually get to.
\n 
\nIf your life isn\u2019t short
\nit\u2019s going to be filled
\n 
\nwit intensity and struggles
\n 
\ndat you could nevah have imagined
\nor even foreseen.
\n 
\nFlamethrowers will try to burn you
\nand bullets will try to pierce you
\n 
\nas exploding shrapnel
\nviolently flies above your foxhole.
\n 
\nAs foa me
\nI\u2019m fixing my bayonet to my rifle
\nand getting ready
\nto advance my continuous charge.
\n 
\nIt\u2019s my \u201cBattle of the Bulge\u201d
\n 
\nbut unlike da Germans
\nI\u2019m going to break through.
\n 
\nIt\u2019s good to have
\ndat ancient warrior spirit
\n 
\ndat seeks to prevail
\njust like Odysseus traveling back home.
\n 
\nI\u2019m about to cast off my hood
\nand beggar\u2019s rags
\n 
\nto bend and string da bow
\n 
\nand send wun arrow
\nstreaking through holes in upright axes.
\n 
\nResults and actions
\n 
\nwill take care of my critics
\nand naysayers.
\n 
\nKeep da faith Penelope
\n 
\ncause any determined dynamo
\ncertainly will.
\n 
\n 
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n 
\nJoe Balaz writes in Hawaiian Islands Pidgin (Hawai\u2019i Creole English) and American English. He is the author of Pidgin Eye<\/strong><\/a>, a book of poetry.The book was featured in 2019 by NBC News for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, as one of the best new books to be written by a Pacific Islander.
\n 
\nIn July, 2020, he was given the Elliot Cades Award for Literature as an Established Writer<\/em>. It is the most prestigious literary award given in Hawai\u2019i.
\n 
\nBalaz presently lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
\n 
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\nRobin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of Poetry Life and Times<\/a> at Artvilla.com<\/a> ; his publications include
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\nAll the Babble of the Souk<\/em> <\/a>, Cartoon Molecules<\/em>, Next Arrivals<\/em> and Moon Selected Audio Textual Poems<\/em>, collected poems, as well as translation of Guadalupe Grande\u00b4s La llave de niebla, as Key of Mist<\/em> <\/a> and the recently published Tesserae<\/em> <\/a> <\/u>, a translation of Carmen Crespo\u00b4s Teselas.
\n 
\nYou may visit Aquillrelle.com\/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop <\/a>about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)<\/a><\/p>\n

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  Ovahnight success?!   In many cases wen you investigate dats really not how it is.   Sometimes people go on wun long Odyssey   just to get to wheah dey eventually get to.   If your life isn\u2019t short it\u2019s going to be filled   wit intensity and struggles   dat you could nevah … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[930,742,808,796,366,754,401,43],"tags":[931,18,136,874],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7561"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7568,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7561\/revisions\/7568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}