Murder at the End of "F" Street ---- poem by Koon Woon

Murder at the End of "F" Street ---- poem by Koon Woon

This Must Sink in to Trump

What Trump Doesn't Like to Think about

Three poems by Julie Dickson

Three poems by Julie Dickson

The Mirror ------ poem by Donald Gasperson

The Mirror ------- poem by Donald Gasperson

If Trump the Mad Dog gets in

If Trump the Mad Dog gets in.

How crazy can a crazy man get is anyone's guess....

Oil company CEO for Secretary of State
and Mad Dog general for Department of Defense

Proof that Trump is a PUPPET

Four poems by Margaret Roncone

click this link for 4 poems by Margaret Roncone

new poem by Koon Woon

new poem by Koon Woon

New poem by Koon Woon

poem by Koon Woon

new poem by Julie A. Dickson

Click onto poetry for this issue to read Julie A. Dickson's new poem, "New Hope."

Five Willows Literary Review anthology?

How does everyone feel about a Five Willows Literary Review anthology?

Please send feedback to Koon at 

koonwoon@gmail.com

Go to Poetry and read Julie Dickson's Three Gorgeous New Poems

Five Willows Literary Review: Five Willows Review Supports Hillary Clinton

Five Willows Literary Review: Five Willows Review Supports Hillary Clinton: Five Willows Review supports Hillary Clinton for President of the United States of America. Sometimes in the course of human events, it...

Five Willows Review Supports Hillary Clinton

Five Willows Review supports Hillary Clinton

for President of the United States of America.


Sometimes in the course of human events, it is better to have someone flawed than to have a random spieler of poison. We denounce Donald Trump for the moral scum he is.

This endorsement of Hillary Clinton does not mean that China will in any way decrease its vigilance in protecting herself from military adventurism by any nation or party.

Black lives matter!

A Five Willows Review Editorial: 

    We urge people everywhere to respect the divine rights of everyone who was ever born to have no more and no less privilege than any other person ever born. 

Five Willows Literary Review is on hold right now due to the publisher's change of residence (moving). 

Hopefully Five Willows will return some time soon.

Please check back often and thank you for your patience!

Work by Bruce Dale Wise:

It is too exotic and large to be under Five Willows Poetry and so it is classified under

Other Items of Interest

Bruce Dale Wise

Link to Goldfish Press has been replaced by a new Goldfish Press (Seattle) site

https://goldfishpressseattle.blogspot.com/

Poem by Julie Dickson

Go to Five Willows Poetry of our current issue  of  Five Willows Literary Review

Poem by Julie Dickson (click on this link)

Kelle Grace Gaddis ----- six poems

Kelle Grace Gaddis ----- six poems click on this link

Solidarity with all people of all persuasion against violence

Five Willows Literary Review

is in Solidarity with All People of All Persuasion

Against Violence in Any Form.

Kissinger --- on China, New York Times book review 2011

Kissinger on China, New York Times book review 2011

New Releases from Goldfish Press

New Releases from Goldfish Press:

Mental Disorders in the United States

Mental Disorders in the United States

Mr. Schuler and the Triple - L , a vignette by Koon Woon

Mr. Schuler and the Triple - L , a vignette by Koon Woon

A Poetic Experiment

The following is a poem by Koon Woon. We are doing a small experiment in "empathy." 

If you are a poet or familiar with poetry, you may have a stronger reaction or a different reaction than someone who is not a poet or a poetry connoisseur. Please write your own reaction to this poem and email it to Koon Woon at koonwoon@gmail.com. Just a short paragraph would do as to how you reacted.

Then, let a friend who is not a poet read this poem, and ask for his/her reaction. It is preferable that you do not ask an English major or a Literature major but someone who majored in another field. 

Thank you for your participation. It is of course voluntary.

Here is the poem:

The eye of the needle

She said you can see the world through

The eye of the needle,

Writing as she with her index finger

On my spine.

She said the whorl on your

Back indicates

You have great strength,

Like an ox,

And she patiently plucked

Hair from my forehead,

Saying,

This will make you generous.

Grandmother your aged hands were

Soft.

If I only knew the number

Of Chickens

You have plucked

Gently naked,

Undressing them for the next life.

And you rubbed

Your grandchildren’s foreheads

To gentle sleep with those

Palms.

Tender tendrils of garden petals

You rubbed between finger tips

Loved they were and abunded

I forgive the time you hacked

To pieces my dog and scooped it

Steaming onto my plate.

I didn’t have enough meat.

Grandmother

You are not here now

And I am strong

You wrote a whorl on my back.

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You can make a comment here or

Please email your reactions to koonwoon@gmail.com

Koon Woon

2012 18^th Ave. South

Seattle, WA 98144

Revisions: 1981 - 2015

Poem by Joanna Sit

Click onto this link for poem by Joanna Sit

Four New Poems from Julie A. Dickson

Click onto this link

New poem by Don Gasperson

Click onto this for new poem by Donald Gasperson

An Endorsement for Bernie Sanders

Five Willows Literary Review

Endorses Bernie Sanders

for Democratic Nominee for the Presidency

of the United States of America

Vignette by Koon Woon

Vignette by Koon Woon (click this link)

Julie A. Dickson ---- four poems

click here for poems by Julie A. Dickson

Koon Woon ----- poem

click here for poem by Koon Woon

Lange woon --------- two poems

A bit about your editor

Koon Woon on Wikipedia

Gerald McBreen ----- poem

Don Gasperson ----- poem

Lange Woon ----- poem

Marjorie Rommel ----- four poems

Ann Mackenzie ------------ poem

Lenora Good -------- three poems

James Rodgers ------ poem

Connie Walle ---- poem

a Cento by Brendan McBreen

Poem and prose by Carl Papa Palmer

New poems by Julie A. Dickson and by George Held

Resuming Five Willows Literary Review by popular demand

We are resuming publication of Five Willows Literary Review (online) by popular demand.

We owe a great encouragement from the Northwest Renaissance, in particular, to Marjorie Rommel, Poet Laureate of Auburn, WA.