POETRY PACIFIC

Because He Cannot Be Human, and She Cannot Be Donkey. His name is Jacob, his fur an unruly thatch. My sister is in love with him, brings...

Questions Emerging From A Dream About Eating A Pet Does food, like medicine,
heal separation? when we eat we make what is
not us, our ow...

CULLING I have no use for images of wheat fields, children with sun in their hair, women bright with fertility, arms heaped with grain,...

Hinge  The hinge  that supports the weight  of all my ambitions  has come undone  through no fault of mine  I long to taste ...

Speaking stones The inscriptions bleed tonight letters moving right to left forcing the darkness between to glow where the mark of a...

  Kawaakari: moonlit river Milky Way spills down eventide’s pitcher of moonrise silver commingling stardust and tumbling water. ...

the last time you were seen  was late spring sat in a clapped out car on the seafront staring out at the waves at dusk counting s...

SCOPE   Late in the day and slightly arched over my shoulder suggests that if I am of whale descent then words are water. Bio...

Perception You who do not believe that angels dance on pinheads; tell me that rainbows are not contained in prisms, that love does...

LAKE DANCE Peaceful undulation gently raps the brownish-green barnacled pier as the crystal blue pulse of the extensive lake abounds w...

A Soldier Almost Out of His Body Almost out of my body, I have seen things that I can not explain or even feel. Like a blush on the gra...

Calm After the Storm w i             b l         s        n d            o w t                  ips over    r        e        ...

Circles I heard a rabbi on the radio talking of God, the great Circle from which we humans are not excluded but dwell in our own ...

Angle of Repose I cross the small that connects our studies and ask to borrow his book again. He thinks it strange that I’ve taken an ...

Just Stop I can't settle. Time goes. The words bunch, block, and back up like ice chunks in a narrow-necked bottle. When you sai...

The Raptures of the Weapon  We, the onlookers hover & howl but the packets of death fly free ignoring all. Without gravity or guil...

Encouragement Isn’t it an uplifting thought that in a few decades we and this whole confused epoch with its dizzy politicians, wornout...

APHORISMS An aphorism is an ekphrasis about the portrait of life. The sound of one hand clapping is very loud against the side of your h...

A Reason for Parting “The supernatural envelops us and answers us and answers our needs like the atmosphere, but we do not see it.” Charle...

Sublimation I ran through an icy dew facing another light blinded by those distant rays in a land abandoned by greed. Desert of h...

Lakeside Bird Feeder, First Day It should’ve taken only that scouting, squawking jay to get the word out. Framed by a pane, on a perch,...

Definitions    Hover    In  the subliminal Tell  us what to call our food    What  the time of day   Says  to the angle of lea...

Oklahoma In these plains I have been tornado chaos the storm swirling out of shotglass. Unpredictable system of bankruptcies this ...

In the Beginning, or, Making a Point In the beginning was the line The point and then the line The nothingness and then the point and li...

Your Own Horizon Waves start somewhere. Ocean swell. Wind chop. Motor wake. Tidal surge. You watch as sunlight shimmers on the ha...

Festive Cruise Ships to Far Star Resorts Portholes shimmer like jewels in the mist, ships like souls plunging into the orange sun. In ...

Old Man Scrubbing Graffiti from the Library Wall Enraptured progenitor of consensus What mushrooms ring your tree? What faded flowers do...

Four Inspiring Quotes (with Inspirobot) I. Life is not a project, it’s a joke; understand that you’re losing your mind. II. Trust the ...

We Are The People On the bus The vast majority of us Stand next to others we don’t know Strange faces . . . colors, smells, beliefs...

A Little Girl’s Smile When God created the worlds he took the light from his heart, gave it to the sun, who shared it with the moon, w...

Package the woman at the post office said That box is full of possibilities Yes it is a typewriter Bionote Lindsay Ballew is a nati...

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We're all spirits                        a tribute to Native Australians Your name's written in snake's eyes. I can open my...

Diagnosis You are damned with this forever You have no choice but to learn to dance with the devil on your back And he has no fucking rh...

Departure A tree died out leaving a branch detached from the fellow branches A solitary branch while facing the sky smiles and a...

Vampire Girl Her kiss is insistent, intimate & infuriating. Whining "GIMME" in your ear. By the time you feel her t...

Cold Hearth I came home early to find a fire burning. But it was not for me. Triangle Faded blue jeans In the wind. Holes Where k...

A Window Is a Sea            -Dean Young She is a window into which words swirl in an effortless maze of decomposition. There’s no...

Stars It is said we are born of stardust, Elementally at least. The carbon in us is out there too, Shining when the sun goes to rest. ...

POETRY PACIFIC [spring 2020] Cover Photo by Keith Moul 

POETRY PACIFIC [autumn issue 2019] Autumn Grove: coloured papercutting by Li Baofeng

dear All PP Patrons,  seven years ago, we started Poetry Pacific whimsically on the remembrance day. so, let us begin by saying: Happy A...

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Bionote Li Baofeng is a contemporary Chinese folk artist who invented 'coloured papercutting' ...