Some computer glitch or evil spirits prevent one from accessing my poems "A Question" and "The Sword" in the online magazine Poetry Pacific, edited by Yuan Changming and Allen Yuan in Vancouver, British Columbia. Here they are in all their naked availability:
A Question
Seafoam circles the rock on the beach from both sides
and meets again like estranged lovers
clasping hands yet
who is the wave?
who gives enough push so that they meet?
what is the rock that separates them?
[cliché check]
the water is the collective spirit
the force is love, we say
the rock is self
water never relents (why should it?)
continents constantly drift
I'm not sure about any of this.
You'd think the water will always pass
still if the rock is a wall and it's thick enough,
high and large enough
the sea may never break through
in your lifetime
in the lifetimes
of rocks
of waves
of love.
A question:
What then?
The Sword
The sword
The mighty sword
The ritual
The inscription
The fabrication
The edge
Sharp
Take a life
A woman, a child
The noble sword
Don't leave home
Into your silver scabbard
And out as needed
To take a life
To protect a life
To give
To live
To die
By
A clean sword
Requires blood
Baptism
You must give it
And yourself
away
To acquire a new
Swordless you.
You can, however, read on the Poetry Pacific website a third poem entited "Growth & Theft", published there last May 5th. Here's the link:
https://poetrypacific.blogspot.com/2023/05/1-poem-by-e-martin-pedersen.html
My thanks to the editors.
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