La
Levee, queen of the
house
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Bodhisattva
Guanyin, an
interfaith ekphrastic poem in
Angle: Journal of Poetry in English, Vol. 3 Iss. 2, Fall/Winter 2014. |
Wayne-Daniel Berard of
Soul Lit: A Journal of Spiritual
Poetry
says Jane's poetry has a lovely,
gentle power (not the less powerful for its
gentleness.) Read her four new poems by clicking on
"Vol. 8 - Summer 2014 issue" and then on her name, 3rd down on the
index page.
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Young Means Forever Unchanging
Awarded 2nd Place in the Poetry Matters Celebration Contest, 2013
Of all my ESL students,
Young is the one I can't reach.
No sense of syntax at all.
Random words tumble from him
like poetry magnets, in heaps,
and he's lost most of the verbs....read more...
Watching Jimi at Monterey
Hendrix mounted his Fender
onstage a gleaming, virgin
Wild Thing...read more on p. 59
The Mall
On the list of things that I hate most of all
the one I hate most is a day at the mall...read more...
Awarded 2nd Place in the Poetry Matters Celebration Contest, 2013
Of all my ESL students,
Young is the one I can't reach.
No sense of syntax at all.
Random words tumble from him
like poetry magnets, in heaps,
and he's lost most of the verbs....read more...
Watching Jimi at Monterey
Hendrix mounted his Fender
onstage a gleaming, virgin
Wild Thing...read more on p. 59
The Mall
On the list of things that I hate most of all
the one I hate most is a day at the mall...read more...
Moving Day
You moved into your dorm a sticky day.
We schlepped your stuff and sweat with no A.C.
I vowed I wouldn't bawl. I'd be OK.
I, too, was moving on. Now I was free...read more...
The Change
A good wife at mid-life does strange things she would never have
dared before --
selfish things, healthy things -- like sharing gripes she'd never have
aired before...read more...
Give and Take
Awarded 2nd place in the Poetry Matters Celebration Contest - 2012
You moved into your dorm a sticky day.
We schlepped your stuff and sweat with no A.C.
I vowed I wouldn't bawl. I'd be OK.
I, too, was moving on. Now I was free...read more...
The Change
A good wife at mid-life does strange things she would never have
dared before --
selfish things, healthy things -- like sharing gripes she'd never have
aired before...read more...
Give and Take
Awarded 2nd place in the Poetry Matters Celebration Contest - 2012
Icarus
O
the
whoosh
in my ears
A mile high above the beach I soar my unfettered Arms outstretched bathing in crisp air
higher even than the gulls thoughts bare feet dangling in the void
vacant
frantic
as
bees
O
the
whoosh
in my ears
A mile high above the beach I soar my unfettered Arms outstretched bathing in crisp air
higher even than the gulls thoughts bare feet dangling in the void
vacant
frantic
as
bees