October 19th, 2016 by admin
Dear friends,
Thank you for all your comments on the 5 minute documentary that serves as my book trailer, too. It seems to have touched many of you!
We would really appreciate your help to get this film into the world. So, please consider posting this...
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Tags: Raphael Block, Video
Posted in: Uncategorized, Poets Comment into the World
September 28th, 2016 by admin
Strings of Shining Silence
When shadows lengthen,
our breaths grow closer, and
bundled bodies huddle against
drizzle-slanting snow and rain.
To warmth we turn,
the nearness of a cello heartbeat;
strings of shining silence
fill my chest with crimson tones....
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Tags: poems, Raphael Block
Posted in: Uncategorized, Forever Journal
September 28th, 2016 by admin
Friends of Poetic Matrix Press. Here's a great way to support Raphael Block, one of our authors, in his 2nd book with us and receive an early copy of the finished book. Please show your support. Thanks John
Dear friends,
I would like you...
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Tags: Press Note, Raphael Block
Posted in: Uncategorized, Poets Comment into the World
September 7th, 2016 by admin
Picked up somewhere on the net.
Truth is like poetry
and most people fucking hate poetry
...
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September 7th, 2016 by admin
A CUT ABOVE
Stems lay flat when
first cut for display
.
we can play like it
is not a big deal
or it will grow to
full size of the sun
.
we tend to put
emphasis where
.
we already want
it to be…
within
all this change
.
it doesn’t and
then it does
.
it’s...
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Posted in: Uncategorized, Forever Journal
June 14th, 2016 by admin
Spiraling Forward
Let the dance of the sacred Spiral carry you on a journey through the cycles of Life.
Ashley Pinkerton
This is an invitation to support Ashley Pinkerton and Poetic Matrix Press in publishing her new book Spiraling Forward. Check...
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Tags: Ashley Pinkerton, Poetry
Posted in: Uncategorized, Poets Comment into the World
June 14th, 2016 by admin
Morning
Reluctant night after a brooding duty, slowly retreating
The earth in gray, some dim shades still hovering
Dawn strides out leisurely to wake every farm
The sleepy sun, in liquid light, making the sand warm
Morning nymph rising from the ocean...
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Tags: India, Poetry, Sandeep Kumar Mishra
Posted in: Uncategorized, Forever Journal
June 14th, 2016 by admin
Use This Day
Use this day
For love, for friendship, for rage,
For justice, for hope,
For worship, if your gods are worthy of it.
Use it
To build, to create,
To bring meaning,
To fight the void and navigate the flux.
Don’t shirk, don’t slouch.
Use it....
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Tags: Clifford Browder, Poetry
Posted in: Uncategorized, Forever Journal
June 8th, 2016 by admin
Here is our table at The Bay Area Bookfair in Berkeley this past weekend (June 4 & 5). The weather was beautiful and I met many good people. Grace Grafton, Gail & Charles Entrekin came by as did Devon and Catherine. It was...
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Tags: Francisco X. Alarcón, Gail Entrekin, Press Notes
Posted in: Uncategorized, Poets Comment into the World
April 27th, 2016 by admin
Born
Some of this is make believe.
Or at least, it starts that way,
as a faraway dream,
a dream of all that we can be.
So it is inside every me.
Life ain’t always easy.
In fact, it’s often quite stinky
heartbreakingly.
Rhymes often fail at the line,...
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Tags: Joe Bisicchia, Poetry
Posted in: Uncategorized, Forever Journal
April 27th, 2016 by admin
NOW THAT I’VE MADE IT HERE
Pink sheets of pleasure
open like petals,
float across bare knees.
My head adrift in pillow,
yours warming my naked chest,
serenity keeps us in mind
for moments like this.
Love-making over,
I taste the wine of the results,...
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Tags: John Grey, Poetry
Posted in: Uncategorized, Forever Journal
April 27th, 2016 by admin
We have been on the road for a few weeks. We went to the Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Conference and Book Fair April 1 & 2 in Los Angeles, my daughter Kiirsti joined me and we met a lot of good people. Kim Shuck, Joe Milosch and Brandon Cesmat...
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March 4th, 2016 by admin
Bilingual hearts
In memory of Francisco X. Alarcón
From the East to the West
From the snow to the hills
where life becomes
a fairy tale
Your gentle eyes gave me peace
Your light kindled my voice
on a night when fatigue
rained down on me shamelessly...
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Tags: Poetry, Silvia Marijuan
Posted in: Uncategorized, Forever Journal
February 21st, 2016 by admin
On Thursday Feb. 18th a large group gathered at the John Natsoulas Gallery in Davis to celebrate the life and work of Francisco X Alarcon
who on Jan. 16th passed from this place to that on his journey. So many souls that he has touched and so they came...
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Tags: Francisco X. Alarcón, Press Note
Posted in: Uncategorized, Poets Comment into the World
February 21st, 2016 by admin
Here are two poems that have similar subjects enough to be connected.
Speak it into being
I didn't believe but
.......I spoke it into being
and ever infinitesimal
.......I became what I am
and that is what I was meant
.......to be
all this...
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Tags: James Downs, poems, Poetry
Posted in: Uncategorized, Forever Journal
February 21st, 2016 by admin
Mermaids
we were going to take the boat out, sail
to the edge of the world, tease
the monsters waiting there with our
bare, dangling feet, toes tickling the ocean skin
like tiny pink fish
but you had to go and ruin it
chase shore-hugging mermaids instead...
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Tags: Holly Day, poems
Posted in: Uncategorized, Forever Journal
January 26th, 2016 by admin
It is time, before the coming Republican primaries, for me to say something I first formed 40 years ago. Before the pundits spew out the stereotype about disaffected white men voting for the likes of Trump and Cruz, let me say this, I am a white man (even...
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Tags: Essay, John Peterson
Posted in: Uncategorized, Poets Comment into the World
January 16th, 2016 by admin
We have lost a rare and beautiful person. To Francisco, my friend, my love to you on your new journey. It has been my privilege and my joy to have gotten to know you and to work with you. Thanks to James Downs for introducing us and thanks to Devon,...
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Tags: Francisco X. Alarcón, Press Notes
Posted in: Uncategorized, Forever Journal
January 7th, 2016 by admin
(Buckminster) Fuller said that he had experienced a profound incident which would provide direction and purpose for his life. He felt as though he was suspended several feet above the ground enclosed in a white sphere of light. A voice spoke directly...
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Tags: Comment, Fuller
Posted in: Uncategorized, Poets Comment into the World
January 6th, 2016 by admin
Water Tactics
Drops’ jots and tittles form icicles
that lock up in temperature drops and yet
drip in more warm phenom clear and present
placebo venom.
Is Defines Is
This beautiful panorama of is
somehow has arrived at being what’s there,
and...
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Tags: poems, TWIXT
Posted in: Uncategorized, Forever Journal