Elizabeth Medina

POEM     Poverty and ignorance must end and the Violence that perpetuates them.   I write to change the world.   I write to live my life twice.   I don’t write for money. This is my power.  …

POEM     The silence of the world immolates sunflowers desperate to bloom   The mother could not hear yet bore a son unable to be deaf to this world’s screams   Hollow souls wandered round you in Arles’s terrifying…

POEM     …without knowing why by the sound of the gondolas knocking against their mooring poles in Piazza San Marco the old houses with names in cold misty London lit balconies in the evenings in the stately neighborhoods of…

POEM      Truth: yours is a stark strange and terrible beauty   I love you above all things You’re always there at labyrinth’s end like the Minotaur like Death   You point me to what I truly have: no…

Fil-Hispanic Literature     Hola Karinita, I finished an article in Spanish for Revista Filipina—a digital journal on Hispanic Filipino literature, culture with an academic bent.  It’s on Adelina Gurrea’s book of short stories that are marvelous, Cuentos de Juana. …

POEM     The sun will rise and set this day The sap will flow unseen to clothe the coffee bark of stark and wintry trees anew a primorous virgin green And I shall flow with morning, afternoon and twilight…

POEM       Wax and wane days weeks whoosh by I am seasons a door ajar   last year’s grass cut soon overgrown my young cats here a decade old   birdsong evening blooms   incense wafts Oropel by…

POEM  I love your poetry he said and poured his soul into my teacup   I was as usual afire with thirst It was still winter   No end in sight   Being a geisha of words an angel stunned…

POEM         If you don’t want to love I’ll take care of it I will love.   If you don’t want to smile I’ll take care of it I will smile.   If you don’t want to…

LITERARY         The family group stood in the jungle clearing. The rosy dawn was just beginning to filter through the trees. The grandfather and grandmother, their numerous grown children, the wives and husbands and grandchildren old enough…