POETRY PACIFIC

ON THE METRO With dark detectable sounds puffing on the red line on West Street with snow falling in a leaky roof on the subway los...

Random Control Inspired rituals from earthly connections as hands create, nurture and plant Joyous celebrations in every occasion...

every word it is in the span of uncensored long together long drive home from lobster and tall mango drink meals that fixes mete...

When Everything You’ve Done and Everything That’s Happened to You Is Not What Your Life Is She’s not sure how her life happened o...

facilitation of open                        hands                         flex in the sleeping aggregations of achromatic devoti...

Night Wanderers Like a sailboat striving To catch the wind, I shift from side to side. Each time I get up and return You ...

Bionote Photographer: Joneve McCormick, Isla Vista, California.  Joneve is a poet, writer, editor, translator and photograp...

Waiting: Two Vague Leaves vs A Whole Clear Season Bionote Liu Yu, a native of Gong-an, Hubei Province, used to work as an administra...

Autumnal the clap of trees withering in the dusk the sad dropping of emaciate leaf secrets whispered in a desolate wind we c...

Flower  Language flowers have miraculous colours they send us love with their perfumes; a diffe...

haiku  1. eyes of crow a rickshaw-puller by the road 2. rose in the breeze… waiting for ...

Road Runner Heaven or the promised land Eternity or soon Once I spy the vanishing point I'm out of this cartoon Beep beep Biono...

SeaScape I Hearing waves from a distance and feeling sea breezes brush our faces, it seemed a century before we came to the ocean....

Sinking Mirror ,seeping ,closing ,clawing ,caving ,runting ,nodding ,negging ,aiming ,roiling ,flaming ,towelling ,gagging ,is...

Introduction As poetry practitioners, we certainly have many concerns about this pseudo profession. Legitimate or otherwise, these concer...

Among thousands of online and print publications of literature/poetry already available to writers and readers, why, just why Poetry Pacifi...

a mamaist journey The word I heard Hurt. The word I said Fed. The word I felt Dealt. The word I saw Was law. The word I r...

Medical Marijuana Industry Is Unnerved by U.S. Crackdown UKIAH, Calif. — An intensifying federal crackdown on growers and sellers of stat...

Non-Euclidean Geometry Lesson  Rectangular is the god of those who hate one another; his blunt weight first flattens them, and then hi...

Lost and Found The way objects wait, how their patience shames us! The loved comb lodged behind the console, years yawn, presidencies tu...

Dyslexia When the d becomes b, I dug my bug, I dig the big, and dog the bog.  When d became b I knew it, but I couldn...

Night Songs Her lips were like silk sheets Wrapped loosely around my mind Aboard a magic carpet With our hearts intertwined Super ...

* All kinds of poetry in terms of style and subject matter are equally welcome, though we tend to love shorter pieces more; * All poems ar...

Not the Mirror It’s not the mirror glass that’s cold, it’s my reflection—I’ve been told.   So comes the fall, the frigid shiv...

Dawning of the Dark Day shuts the door and darkens with purple sky. After the bolt of sun flashes orange, it unlatches the night ...

Bigger than a Bread Box A man who thinks about awe, stops to think, just a moment; in the canyon, armadillos scuttle by like b...

Back to the sea I want to go back to the sea where light and dark are one, where I come from. Back to sea waits and wiggles where th...

A Smoke Break at the Nuclear Command We multitask — chop, grill, wok, and pickle. They are fickle, can come all hours, drunk, after se...

* All kinds of poetry in terms of style and subject matter are equally welcome, though we tend to love shorter pieces more; * All poems ar...