POETRY PACIFIC

A Separate Poem I’ve been one of the lonely ones -- so long, I even miss me. [the silence like an ocean rolled and broke against my e...

Today's Date There comes a time in one's lifetime when occurrences dine with time. Here comes a day, an hour, a minute,...

Uni-Verse Who will remember the universe we knew— not just the planets and the stars, but these minds of ours where worlds of ...

Linoleum If  I don't love Jesus more than I love Miss Hooker, my Sunday School teacher, then I'll go to Hell but I just hope she...

That thing. I wish I’d done it sooner. That thing I always talked about. Waiting for the other shoe to drop. Or should I say ...

A Sonnet of Thoughts & Dreams (Previously Published by Fourth & Sycamore ) In the garden where I often dream, And watch sparrow...

Invoking Laozi Hiking along a less trodden trail in the Pacific Spirit Forest, I almost have to stop to find my Way out Because all roads h...

Picnic Table overburdened not by weight rather by thoughts and friends lonely times great times spilled stories spilled wi...

There There is a place where the wind still connects our steps to the sky. Water spills Water spills on the poem and runs off the...

Cacti  Dactylopius Coccus/Coccus Cacti  nicks   little carmine feathers as we press an impossible Europe scaled   cactus brinks to...

SNEAKY LIZARD LOUNGE Welcome to the Sneaky Lizard Lounge, Where you may come to get away, Drink, and hear the records play. Lay you...

The First Thousand Miles To take the long way Away from Home How to make peace with that purring engine, Subtle vibrato? Past ...

Bionote Lavana Kray is from Iasi – Romania. She has won several awards, including WHA Master Haiga Artist 2015. Her work  has b...

Odds You're more likely to die inside a revolving restaurant after eating fugu liver or have your blood boiled by lightning outsi...

Serenity a mother sits in her favorite wooden rocking chair her coffee mug resting on the white painted windowsill as she g...

Mantra Compactor Walk Heated temples cool in the incense of G-chord: forget, remember. Mantra Live As you Die Bionote J...

A TRIBUTE TO CHARON We are a generation consumed by quarter tones, the rhythm of coffee cups and saucers, spoons and trays. In parlors w...

Raven In The Field Take this patch of meadow clustered green in clover and you have a textile by William Morris.  Hidden in its foliage...

Sail Me Away  Boats in the Bronx sometimes lay on the land sideways, half-asleep with their hands curled underneath. Off in the corner o...

Scoop Up Water and the Moon is in Your Hand (after calligraphy of Zenkei Shibayama)                 I The sun rains its light as drops...

ENTRE RÍOS I have watched the sun       rise & set             between these rivers Beams slicing       the blues of skies ...

​ Bethlehem Parting the bushes, you glimpse an abandoned blast furnace groping the sky like the blinded Cyclops. You’ve come so fa...

Of the Sea I’ve always been afraid/ of the sea/ Its power and viciousness/ as it pulls a weary soul/ deep into its icy crypt / engulfing ...

Leonard Cohen My Friend (V2) Death is a bitch and a whore comes with hat on or off, Jewish, Christian or lover years ago called Nancy...

Time and Tide The time reels forward as fish do Whirling and banking through glaucous waters offshore And you have come to spend the la...

And Fall The future is gonna be alright 'cuz millions of years from now next week despite our differences similaritie...

The Gift Horse —for Isabel Augustine-Adams The Korean boys take turns bringing her gifts she can’t accept, she’s a light-haired mei...

Are You Right Footed or Left Footed? People talk about being right handed or left handed and manufacturers make some things to accomm...