Words from the Pacific

By J.A. King

Words from the Pacific is a short collection of poems and poetic short stories by J.A. King

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Sep 27, 2011
• ISBN: 9781304165657

J.A. King

This is King's first published work. Born and raised in The Bronx, New York, he hopes to continue to grow and excel as a writer using personal life experiences and observations he's absorbed throughout his time here on earth. When not providing food for thought on jackdbk.blogspot.com, King is busy in the kitchen providing food for actual sustenance purposes.

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Words from the Pacific

Words from the Pacific

My Head is in the Clouds

But my feet are on the Ground

Poems by J. A. King : [e-mail]

THE SHARP ONE THE TALL ONE THE HARD ONE

and when I feel it inside

its those moments when removed is the I

like a signal interference in the clutter

of the city traffic going by

Seeing hearts glowing

Not to be confused with neon tubes

but in those moments 

when I can see past the inter fear trances

the confusion of the best other efforts

and able to b

trusting to find - find the way

to a

dream

A SUMARY OF LOVE

Adjacent to x

Determined to identify the root

Of this thought when I saw you

Re calculating the formulas to say hello

No rules could have predicted

That this equation would define the rest of my life

Would you

Rings bought the diameter of our commitment

Cosine

Just beyond the luster faded, so did we and back again

Caught in the loop of our calculation

Working towards the solution

The addition of two incomplete wholes

Subtracting the emotion spent

Divided by the trials faced by reaching an agreement

Was still no where near the sum total of

Everything you bring to me

Multiplied by you

And now the remainder dwindling

Derivations gone, amid settling the hanging remainders

Can we ignore the erased equations in the margin?

The variables that were dropped

The calculations that did not compute

So all that’s left, a clear sum total

Of the years gone by

A value as comfortable as we are together

A summary of love

SOMETHING TONIGHT

To night they try the obsidian knife

to cut what they could not spite

from my flesh and mortal bonds

My sisters weak to belong

and tho we play the days away

pretending not to notice

the pressure of the thumb

a silver thread connects the grey

our minds unmortled and one

SNOW STARTS TO FALL

You

Looked down at the table top

The conversation stopped

Your gaze had fallen

To where it now focused

On the cold grey light reflected

Dull on the false wood

And in your mind

Something