Poets Salon: Above It All

POETS SALON

– 03/17/21

Hosted by Kath Abela Wilson

post pandemic
I relearn how
to.make a soufflé

~ Kath Abela

Energetic rail crossing (Photo – Vidal Palacios)

Kimberly Esser

finally, the summit
seeing myself
in a whole new light

suddenly life
makes sense
cherry blossoms

singing bowl
the universe stirs
in me

spirit lodge
I enter
myself

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A mute brickwall except for the signage and meters (Photo – Vidal Palacios)

Vidal Palacios

The Pacific Wheel

We drove upon a fat ribbon of concrete in the dark
(tombstone sparkles)
until we arrived at the edge of the city where
land meets water meets air.

Electric, kaleidoscope, neon rainbow.
Red shoes, frills, metallic balls.
Fried dough, sugar, cinnamon.

Hopping over gouged wood she boarded the steel bucket
with me
and we ascended the mechanical ladder
over the crying, shouting, laughing
mass of people.

Rolling in slow-motion honey
we stopped at the top
gently rocking, rocking, rocking.

Our knees lightly touching
she said, “If you look in different directions it’s like being in two opposite worlds!”

We slept through several lifetimes up there, hanging over Los Angeles.
Angels, space aliens, lovers in a parallel universe,
and when we landed back on Earth we were angry at being mortal again.

We drove home in silence.
Each of us lost in our thoughts
each of us a stranger, still, to the other.

But, only in this world, not in the others.

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Above it all (Photo – Lynne Jambor)

Lynne Jambor

Asteroseismology

…the inevitable roll around the sun…the predictable tilt…proxima centauri b as likely

solar system song…
moon glow vibrations
in my bones

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ocean ripples
break up
the moon glint

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Above It All: Quotes and Credits

Kimberly Esser lives in Los Angeles and is a member of the Southern California Haiku Study Group.

Vidal Palacios is a native son of the San Gabriel Valley and is a new media consultant and founder of firecrackermedia.co. He has worked professionally as an actor, writer, and director and enjoys making beautiful things.

Lynne Jambor, a poet-artist living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, participates virtually in many of Pasadena Poets on Site meetings. Lynne writes and publishes haiku and related forms in many journals and anthologies. She’s currently co-chair of the Haiku North America Virtual Conference, 2021.

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Send short poems, haiku, senryu, tanka, cherita haibun, tanka prose, short prose poems, etc., or your own unique approach, to Kath Abela (click here to email her directly) or via a Facebook message (@Kathabela).

1. Send directly in email or message, no attachments, except photos.
2. Suggest an original theme you would like to see, or consider:
   Openings, Taking care of one another, Encouragement, Good humor in challenging times, Consolations.
   
3. Send a short bio, and comments on the theme.
4. Send several photos or artwork by you, or a friend that would complement your writing if possible. Include one landscape (horizontal) photo or artwork.
   
5. We like to vary the poets, but please send every few months if you like, and contributions can be saved for later. Kath Abela will answer within a week from your sending.

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