Luis Jimenez Poems

You could be on top of the world-

but still,
...

Unlike the swift motions,

one might make on the stage-
...

I have flushed

my ring
...

Come one.

Come all.
...

There are major fires burning all around me-
all motivated by the forceful winds.
The ominous ashes engulf the sky,
The Sun is not visible.
...

Only once every day
can you watch the sun rise,
out of fields in the east
and over mountains in the west-
...

This place was a joy
to a drunken old man-
rainy June day,
stuck in the mud,
...

Oh how I love
my California coast-
my people and their stories
who helped me find a voice-
...

To a cardinal high,
all things are possible-
Jeez, what a view
on the farm down below.
...

Deciduous like a buckeye-
time has only shown,
what your true colors are.
Moonlight has a way
...