Paulines and Paulisms

Kingdom of Dreams and Madness Under the streetlamp Miyazaki waits for the cat Bus to pick up the children Rain drops on damp leaves Echoes of the deep time Lost and found in puddles Love the forest and the trees At last refuge for lost children by Paul Hsu 4/29-30/17

Butterfly My daughter's favorite word One little fluttering thing Notebook of rainbows A migrant rainstorm sprouts wings Reforms north and south Chrysalis calls this wildlife Hidden kingdom of flowers by Paul Hsu 4/27-28/17

Dawn Readership Remember me On the third day Sorrow and joy End up together As best friends lovers Teammates networking Enemies of the hate state by Paul Hsu 4/20-21/17

Owl Below the oldest On the forest floor Runs the snowshoe hare Escapes the vole's fate Atop stands the ghost Listen locate wait by Paul Hsu 4-21-17

Morality Power Plays The king of kings makes church split history Youth groups following footprints in the sand Rocky foundation cracks first cast as stones Against enemies of the warship band Never mind dog piles of cat and mouse bones The burning house of camp deaths and misery by Paul Hsu 4-19-17

Wow Galaxies of starfish notes Unsung swim strummed string by string Instrumental vibrating To stardust and sailboats An alchemical emotion Rising and falling the ocean by Paul Hsu 4-17-17

Springtime What wonder in the world Is going on birdsong Nests among branches wronged Dovetails the broken whole On poets reading lives Word by bird love arrives by Paul Hsu 4-14-17

Cat Poems scribbled on paper napkins Inside April's basket of trade secrets Crafted beer cookies and fish sandwiches Nights before the honeybee moonrise I visit April's kitchen to her surprise Can you believe the news Mr. Pumpkins by Paul Hsu 4/6-8/17

My Neighbor The earth moves beneath cat bus feet Over farmland past country roads The forest spirit sounds fast asleep On a bed of children's dreams and leaves Rustling and subsiding On the way home the children singing by Paul Hsu 4/3-5/17

Nobody Knew It was badly done Sorry child the west was won Love not the stranger Alien and foreigner Not the one we face Death a hangman in our place by Paul Hsu 4-2-17

Opening Day Baseball's first pitch lands Over Arizona's wall Where migrants play catch To save enough time In hopes of making it Even if it is a dream by Paul Hsu 4-1-17