Our 50 Year Milestone in Costa Rica

Posted on September 20, 2025 by Karima Hoisan

50 years ago yesterday (September 19th) was my daughter and my 50th anniversary in
Costa Rica. We came for an indefinite time…and wound up spending a lifetime here!!
We drove down from Los Angeles and crossed the Nicaragua/Costa Rica border exactly
50 years ago yesterday!
I think I look like a pilot for United Airlines in this shot haha
My daughter, Poett who was 5 at the time, wrote a post yesterday in Spanish, that I will translate:

“September 19th is a very special day… Today marks 50 years since I set foot in Costa Rica. What was a six-month adventure for my mom became our destiny. Just like that, overland, from Los Angeles, 1975. And yes, my mom is quite a character, following the call of her soul that brought us here. Costa Rica was where I was meant to grow up… I’m still here and I’ll stay. This is my country… And the icing on the cake… 18 years later, on September 19th, 32 years ago… my son Sebas was born.”
So Happy Anniversay to us!!  Happy Birthday Sebas! Here’s to another 50 in Costa Rica:):)

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Mariachis for The Dead

Posted on September 19, 2025 by Karima Hoisan

Hi everyone,
if you read my blog for awhile, you know I am into the “Vampire Thing”

I jumped the gun for Halloween next month!. Oops!

In their own words and their own voices, these undead tell it like it is.

Vampires, Ghouls,  Ghosts  party all night “and the blood flows like wine.”

To my original music,  filmed in Second Life on LINC Island  and Kitely

On AI Dreams in Art in the Goth Section, built & curated by me

All AI Goth Art by Dale Innis

Animesh Characters created by Kimm Starr

Thanks to James Ottobre for flower images from his garden..

Let’s Rave on The Night of The Dead & Halloween

Turn it up and feel the beat!!
A Like on YouTube is very appreciated:)

 

Mariachis for The Dead

That crimson river that calls  to us

but only we can hear..

the night of the dead

and we are the dead

come back to life

for just one night

we hear the call

and crawl out of our tombs

mariachis are the sign

as we walk & fly to join the others 

And the blood flows like wine

We are the revealers of the night

The victims are the banquet  

where we will feast

We find our own kind

and lose ourselves

to the music, to the beat

Who says the dead

don’t know how to have fun

In our own way we mesmerize

each other  without even trying 

And the blood flows like wine

Light on our feet and swift in the kill

we abandon ourselves to this night

frightening  beauty our hair glows, our eyes shine

and the blood flows and flows flows like wine

Karima Hoisan
September 2025
Costa Rica

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Marrying Into Poverty

Posted on September 15, 2025 by Karima Hoisan

Footnote: I awoke with this thought running through my head (the first two lines)

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Altered State – Music & Film From Me on YouTube

Posted on September 7, 2025 by Karima Hoisan

Hi everyone,
Here is something very different (and hopefully) fun, from me this Sunday:)
This is a 4 minute story of a small ferret who finds himself in a new form in
an altered state.
Storytelling to original music, it is a video for all ages to enjoy.
A Machinima, filmed in 4K in both Second Life and on Kitely Virtual Worlds
Use closed captions ( cc )to read the subtitles:) Likes & Comments on YouTube
are given a big ❤️ and my sincere appreciation:)

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An Eternal Loop of Pain

Posted on September 3, 2025 by Karima Hoisan

Artist Kasım Tan completed a drawing action in Üsküdar, Istanbul,
which took more than a month to complete, in protest against Israel’s attacks on Gaza…
The Artist

 
To the music of Savfk …  My recording                                                    

Loop of Pain
An eternal loop of pain
An eternal loop of suffering’
There is enough power in our world
to stop it..right now, before one more innocent
is shot in the head while waiting for water
one more child is starved systematically to  her death.

What has happened to our humanity?
It seems too easy to look away
and forget to see…
to just disconnect because it is
too hard to see and feel there is
no way out of this…z
eternal loop of pain this
eternal loop of suffering.

Every fiber in our being
should cry out in unison
this can not be!!  This must end
and  now!
No more civilians shot down for
target practice
for another notch
on the belt.
I join my voice to all who are not afraid
to say it out loud
I will not stay silent, a mute accomplice
to this continuing endless
loop of pain
to this continuing endless
loop of suffering

I’m crying it  out loud….
and I’m crying

Karima Hoisan
September 3, 2025
Costa Rica
“Ceasefire Now!”

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On and On – Y Así en Masticadores!

Posted on August 29, 2025 by Karima Hoisan

Hi everyone,
I would like  to invite you to go to Masticadores and see my poem “Y asi” published there with this beautiful, (I feel hopeful) image chosen. 
Thank you so much Juan Ré Crivello for choosing my poem in Spanish and the last in the August series about Gaza. Those of you who regularly read me, know how deeply I feel about
this subject, and I felt honored  that Juan Ré choose this one, to finish off the series. 20 poets participated!
The original in English can be found here ( recorded to music by Sting.)
I hope you will support Masticadores by clicking the link below and leaving your Like  there.
Y Así 
Thank you so much for your collaboration,

Love,
Karima

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The Human Race

Posted on August 26, 2025 by Karima Hoisan

The Video

Hi everyone,
I chose a rather broad topic:) but then narrowed it down to this 3 minute look at the Human Race…everything from love to war and the rat race we run for most of our lives. Original Music & Poem, this machinima was shot in both Second Life and Kitely in Opensim. A special thank you to James Ottobre and his amazing garden photos taken in his personal garden. Enjoy in 4K and turn up the sound. Using cc to read the poem is recommended. Likes on YouTube please:)

The Human Race:
a race from birth to death.
There is a parallel race from 9 to 5 
it’s called the Rat Race…
repetitive, 
and round ‘n round 
day after day…
making money 
fulfilling  all those responsibilities

There are other ways to live a life
but it takes a lot of courage to break free
and those who enjoy their work
are the lucky ones
That’s the dream and after only  6 decades
they can retire to finally smell the flowers 
enjoy the trees.
The Rat Race calls  for some sacrifice..
actually… just about your entire life


Then there is war
Fighting a Big lose lose
where no body wins
someone asked in the past,
“War! What is it good for?” 
Some cruel population control?
where you lose your soul?
A madman’s last hurrah of power
Killing & Grabbing what’s not yours
hour after hour?
Humans are not the nicest
animals on this land
Personally, I prefer dogs in the waves
and laughing well fed children 
playing happily in a park
making up their games.

Humans like news but also flowers
I prefer a chrysanthemum 
to a live- stream killing of anything
or anyone 
Humans do vibrate to beauty
to balance and design and creativity
and flowers in a vase in  good taste
Ahh makes our brains feel balanced
All is in its place,

Then the returning rat race
heading for home sweet home
heading to the bar to night school
to a second job just to make it through
Or to cook a dinner pick up the kids at the sitter
It’s not easy being human
multi tasking through the hours
through our lives 
and  I’m going to tell you the real truth
where we spend most of our time?
is in this daily grind.

But it could be worse
we  could be ordered or seduced or 
or just not told the real truth
and then there we are in a far away land
in the middle of a war..
some humans gravitate to it
while others returning home  lament they ever
walked through that recruiting door
No one gets out unscathed
or is ever the same as before

Then
on the other hand  we can love
we can tango til the sun comes up
make love with passion with a significant other
or just be lucky for a night & hook up 
take a walk on the beach, 
and get to know one another
If you ask me
Love is the very best part
of being human

And you already know by now
what is on the bottom of my list
of human traits & practices
We  are compassionate by nature
and war bootcamps that compassion
right out of us
We start blowing up anything in our path
kill kill kill til it becomes a thrill

In this absurd world of Power & Greed
we all could use something higher
to balance our  needs
and keep us sane
through the growing days of insanity..
Take time out for yourself
practice in whatever you believe
and peace and love 
can still take their rightful place
as the corner-stones of our humanity

Karima Hoisan
August 25, 2025
Costa Rica

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Cloudy-Day Blues

Posted on August 14, 2025 by Karima Hoisan

Dirty Dom Daniels playing I Pity the Fool

Cloudy-Day Blues

It’s a gray low-cloudy day
and I’m listening to your guitar play
on a YouTube loop
because, it’s still as good
as it used to be and that
makes me really happy.

Time’s traveled around
more than a half century
and yet  you sound Wow!
You sound even better now.
Bluesy riffs your fingers running
up and down the neck..
Oh you know it all by heart
it’s up in your head as you’
find and press those frets.

Ageless in your sound
you are the perfect harmony
for a fog- bound afternoon
and I’m the only one here;
you’re playing just for me.
Some scenes need a background theme
and you have written the perfect score.
I’ve been sampling your wares
like hot apple pies
and you’re  the roving salesmen
of musical delights.

I’m really glad we had our time
way back when,
You had the magic then
and it’s not gone away..not yet
au contraire,
it’s sounding so hypnotic & smooth
on this laid back afternoon,
you’ve brought me the perfect Blues

Karima Hoisan
August 14, 2025
Costa Rica

*Footnote: Please enjoy my poem to Dan’s (Dirty Dom’s)YouTube Cover. It was the inspiration:):)

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Yearning & Indifference… My latest on YouTube

Posted on August 9, 2025 by Karima Hoisan

Screenshot from YouTube

Have you ever been in a lop-sided relationship where one of you feels more than the other?
Yearning & Indifference explores this very common dynamic, through my music video  with original recited poetry.
Watch in 4K and turn up the sound (It’s very danceable)
Filmed in Second Life & my world on Kitely, “Water & Glass”
Please let me know on my YouTube Channel too if you enjoyed it:)
PS  Can you guess my favorite color??:)

Here are the lyrics:

Yearning & Indifference
You on  the right  side, stoic as a rock
Me on the left side wishing for your touch
That’s what we’ve been doing
ever since we tied the knot
I guess this is my lost  quest
that I can’t seem to give up.

I’ve changed into a thousand looks
to  try and catch your eye
you remind of a waiter
who can’t  see me, no matter how i try
Even waving madly right in front of your screen
Hello !?maybe it’s better to pay the check…and leave the scene.

Yearning & Indifference our dynamic from the start
5 years later, the hope that I can change you
is unraveling and about to come apart.
I guess I was born with  rose colored  vision
the kind that sees what you want to see and not reality
and  honestly , I’m thinking there is no way  to touch your heart.

I’m trembling in place but not from your touch
but one rejection after another is  just too much
You know I’ve caught you watching porno on your laptop screen
Is there is something else you want from me?
Well  just take some time out of your busy day
and  talk to me Just talk to me .. you know you could teach me. 
You gave me the world, just forgot the love
you don’t  really know me , and I know you…just kind 0f
In this marriage prison we both did some wasted time
Now For us to turn into a happily ever after
I wouldn’t give a dime

It’s taken me too long to put some courage in my words’
I’m  yearning to be free, today the cage is open for the bird
Churning & yearning can turn the milk and honey sour
There comes a point of no return  
when I’ll leave this ivory tower
I don’t expect you to even notice 
when the doors slam after me
so committed to your work time/playtime
little chats and secrets, 
you’ll never even hear me leave …

Karima Hoisan
August 6, 2025
Costa Rica

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Swimming at the Very Edge of Night YouTube

Posted on August 1, 2025 by Karima Hoisan

Hi everyone,
I wrote this poem and music last year and posted it here, but I always thought it could
Make a cool (blue) video. Now today here it is. I explained on YouTube:

“I am a swimmer! but I must stay out of the sun, so I swim at the very edge of night. This is a machinima made in Second Life with some real life backgrounds I composed the music and wrote and recite the poem. Please play in 4K fullscreen and for languages other than English,….Click on CC and then again on auto generated to find a drop down of many world languages.  CC only will give you English captions usually. Swimming is Life!!:)” Enjoy

PS Now I have these cool face maks and swim at high noon if I choose:) 
That’s my real pool, thanks to my daughter Poett, you see glimpses of too. Likes and comments on YouTube are loved:)

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