PK Colleran

Joined August 2021

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"There are people who write, but I think they’re quite different from people who must write."

Harper Lee

Writer, translator, seeker

Editor of Landscape of the Soul by Hipólito Sánchez and Words Matter by Jorge Waxemberg

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Precious Moment. First Place in Time Capsule Haiku Challenge. Top Story - March 2023.
The golden dewdrop mirrors sunlight. Soon to be evaporated.
By PK Colleran3 years ago in Poets
Fishing on the Yangtze River
Long ago, a boy Dragonfly on his shoulder Fishes. He still dreams.
By PK Colleran3 years ago in Poets
Seems Like Yesterday
A boy, maybe 4, runs, hearing his mother's call. Yéyé wakes, in tears.
By PK Colleran3 years ago in Poets
You and I
Faraway fusion Stars collide and then (Time flies!) we're here: You and I. .
By PK Colleran3 years ago in Poets
Learning to Read
Magical moment When sound, shape, and meaning merge Neurons fire... Reading!
By PK Colleran3 years ago in Poets
Current Residence
Ozone all around Flare and floe inside and out Denizens abound
By PK Colleran3 years ago in Poets
Life Feeds on Life
Motionless she waits Eyes on shadows in water Swift catch. Froggy lunch.
By PK Colleran3 years ago in Poets
Human Being
We are breath and bones Core of fire pulsing veins Capable of love
By PK Colleran3 years ago in Poets
What Will Become of Us?. Top Story - January 2023.
Who knows our future? Did dinosaurs ever dream of pink feathered flight?
By PK Colleran3 years ago in Poets
Landscape of the Soul: poems in Spanish and English
President John F. Kennedy, well-known as a patron of the arts, famously said, “When power corrupts, poetry cleanses,” adding that art humbles the arrogant by reminding them of their limitations. (For more on JFK's views on art, see HuffPost https://tinyurl.com/57d52yxw).
By PK Colleran4 years ago in Poets
Aquí estamos. Here we are.
Happy to be able to share with you today poems from the forthcoming book, Poems of Community and Hope, by Hipólito Orlando Sanchéz, which will be coming out in 2022, published by Cafh Foundation, Inc., New York.
By PK Colleran4 years ago in Poets
Poems from The Hudson Valley
When I first asked him if we could publish a book of his poetry, he responded in his typical quiet and humble way. “It might bring some solace to people,” he said.
By PK Colleran4 years ago in Poets