We had the experience but missed the meaning.    –   T.S. Eliot

There is poetry that speaks to the head but never touches the deeper recesses of the heart, and there is poetry that massages the heart but does not really challenge the probing and questioning mind. There is poetry that is so abstract that the seeking soul can become lost in an inner or historic maze, and there is poetry that evokes and awakens, in a tender and suggestive way, the deeper longings of the human soul. Wings Toward Sunlight is poetry of the latter kind. But, there must be an inner quietness and attentiveness to receive the insights offered…

(read it fully on Clarion Journal  or click Ron Dart-Wings Toward Sunlight )

 Ron Dart   (Professor, Editor, Author) review of Milton Acorn: In a Springtime Instant

****Also read other reviews on “Wings Toward Sunlight” ****

My poem “Talking to Frida Kahlo” becomes one of April Challenge Winning poems.

Thanks Wilda Morris and William Marr.

  加拿大评选最杰出25位移民多名华人入围

《作别向日葵/Farewell to Sunflowers》双语诗集下载

The Flowering of the Bra, I wrote this poem for Mary Claire’s painted bra, and read it at 2012 Mississauga’s National Poetry Month event.  Today is 2012 Earth Day, I post it here for this as well.
This poem will be included in my coming new poetry book “Inhaling the Silence”

I want to wear it for a mother
who suffers from breast cancer.
I want to remember
…blue skies and forget-her-not
no matter how fragilely her moons wane.

I want to wear it for our Earth
who endures violent exploitation.
I want to consider
…bleeding hearts as my sisters
who shiver from shatters and continual shocks.

I want to wear it for my children
who have a right to live in peace.
I want to picture
…their flourishing future
with azure skies and a green planet.

bleeding hearts

my haiku for today

 The year 2012 marked the 14th National Poetry Month across Canada. Thank all the six readers to read and talk and James Faulkner to sing at Churchill Meadow Library. (thanks the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the League of Canadian Poets and Mississauga Library, Mississauga Library). We are glad to have Talent Vision TV and SNAP reporter to join us and report this event. Here is Toronto online reporting (多伦多在线报道)

 Here are videos for this event.  Here are photos taken at the event.

–At Mississauga’s P.K.Page event, I gave Richard Greene my book and graceciouly he gave me his GGs winning book “Boxing the Compass“.  After my vacation to Cuba last year, I was very happy to received his words for my book. Now after his permission, I decided to post it here: