Most of Wyoming trees, the lesson (Gogyohka Sequence) in April still asleep shivering in the wind like the children in the war-torn land in May start budding or flowering like just awaken lazy person in a hurry sudden snowstorm blankets the flowering trees shuddering at the unexpected after storm passes dazzling smile Wyoming trees' lesson: face the disaster be patient then rebound ©Byung A. Fallgren
junipers don't need to be pruned by human nature did already children don't need to grow under parental pressure just put them in right track what happens in woman's body her choice ©Byung A. Fallgren
The Doe when her son was excluded she walks with him in the night Sleep Aid awake in the wee hour no problem, read book, works better than pills Rattle wind blows all night rattling the satellite dish on the roof for the rotten news ©Byung A. Fallgren
Windy Backyard Wisdom
Winds blow over
the white and green,
cascades from the hill
to the open, rippling in
silver gray, in hopes,
raise them into the air
and blow them away.
But they stay formidable,
roots in the soil,
like the stubborn youths’ will
to keep their land,
rebel against the invaders.
The ripples grow to sea waves,
claw the florets and blades, in vain;
the wings mean to fly,
the roots mean to stay,
like the incompatible lovers.
©Byung A. Fallgren
Dandelion & Iris like a good friend forget each other's fault just enjoy being a good company This piece is one of the six poems published in The Weekly Avocet #491, May 1st, 2022. Thank you, Charles, Vivian, Valeri for taking them. --Byung A.
My six poems appeared in this journal: Spring Pasture; Learning the eyes of Sky,
turtles; Dandelion & Iris; For the Spring Sun; Spring Grass; Spring Tree Song.
Thank you, Charles, Vivian, and Valerie for taking these poems.
–Byung A. Fallgren
Inside me, a family by Ching-In Chen born from small waters. Each night, I look for a paper to feed this first litter from a slow continent. New trappers buy their fetters and hooks, dreaming of new skin to drape. In the sky, a wound like river, opening up again to bird. Neighborhood pushes against seams, dislikes a newcomer. This linked to history and forgetting-- a new gray house like a weed. A monument rises past the window. We sit and drink twice-steeped tea. Ching-In Cheng is the author of Recombinant (Kelsey Street Press, 2017) and The heart's Traffic (Red Hen Press, 2009). A Callaloo, Kundiman, and Lambda Fellow, Assistant professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Science and MFA in creating and Poetics at the University of Washington.
View on the side of the road, a Message Silver sky and the land join in the sea of smog; Submerged, the wind turbines wave their arms, Like the drowning octopuses. Drying lake gives her way to the green invaders, Like old soldiers with no weapons. Hope the smoke will dwindle with winter's arrival; Dried lakes will begin to refill As the irrigation stops in October. In the smoke, the wind turbines point fingers, As we panic at the foot of crumbling hills, Fumbling on the sea of plans. They say eventually Nature replenishes what it has lost, But she cannot revive the perished creatures; Polar bears, beavers, and others may live only In the children's story book. We can reverse that, can't we? ©Byung A. Fallgren
Saving Mother Earth Haikus hear the rage of smoke from the burning trees and houses they resign no more the monarch butterflies on the brink of extinction they don't need to go save others, and save us before polar bear and others gone forever from Earth ©Byung A. Fallgren
A Fish Story Don't ask me my name, I can be any fish, small and big. The point is the fact I am dying with unknown cause; unknown to me and others. A human examines me and others and finds plastic particles in our cell. But he's not sure if that is what killed us. There are more things, toxic chemicals poured into the ocean can be also the reason. humans who consume us worry; what if they too eventually end up being like us. But why worry? Change your wrong habits, and we all be safe. Or won't we? ©Byung A Fallgren
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