Author: Jun Hua Ea

Chantel in the Park 0

Chantel

In Bryant Park the air is sweet of summer’s birth despite the day’s exhaustion. You are lovely, Chantel – like it. As strangers tussle for chairs when the music cuts I pilfer a glimpse...

poem about coexistence 0

Walk (for S.)

Poem   It’s like the face of water, the quivering glisten of dusk intimating little yet all, at once. It’s the nape of the breeze, arcane notes of salt and aquatica as churns the...

poem about existence 0

Out of Words … a Bunch of Coos

Poem About Existence   1. Words have fled this world, we’re still here as so music, partially at least. 2. There’s no point really, nihilism’s that rare drug, the people can’t use. 3. Pluto...

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Shore

Poems About Love   Today, I’m the ocean lapping your feet, swathing your back’s narrow, lave the tender bends of your legs. I would swallow you whole but you shouldn’t know; I’m already dreaming...

poem about nature 0

Susurration

Poem About Nature See how the wind straddles the branches, swelling, in fast embrace, then releases, and they rebound, slinging diminishingly ever, to meet again its torso of tided sinews in a tumble that...

poems about time 0

Portrait – Part IV

Poem Up! She pushed. Up! She was still. A dead elephant. So still she felt the babe’s throbbing. They could do nothing. Her children, 5 and 6, fed and washed — she wept. Up!...

poems about time 0

Portrait — Part III

Poem   It’s fate. There’s nothing to grasp — but worn air of a future lapsing. It’s how we mitigate, how we squelch to years, minutes and the hour. It was the drag of...

Long Poems About Life 0

Portrait — Part II

It’s falling; a shrill of absence, a dreamy strangling, the days uniform and rationed, where jingles hold the spaces of love and immoderations, and zealotry redeems a country of her past. Gone. Gone, the...

Survival Poem 0

Portrait – Part I

Poem   She’s unbreakable — first live and a tiger: her father use to abscond to the market on his moped for coffee and fried breadsticks, and show off to neighbor and kin; she...

Believes Poem 0

Found

Poem   Light thinned the world and ebbed with his breath as he wept: Why do you forsake me? I loved you more than my own. I would take your death thirty-fold than choose...

Family Poems 0

Sleep Over

Poem   My nephew turned five and asked me to sleep over the other day. We’d spent most of it together: going for dim sum, then a puppet show, kicking the Hover Ball, building...