She is different than us….
Category Archives: healing
Orale Pues
Orale Pues…. The back story… For a long time, I wished I was a Chicana. I wanted beautiful dark eyes with long thick lashes like Maria Duran. I wanted to hully gully like Theresa Navarro. I guess you could call it ‘identity issues. At thirteen I started smoking and wanted to be grown up. MyContinue reading “Orale Pues”
sky
Originally posted on Genie Nakano:
Sometimeswe need to pushthrough the cloudsto feel the sunand touch the sky photo: Genie Nakano
Looking Inside my husband’s brain
Sometimes I write for therapy as I did when I wrote this piece. Hideki my husband had a stroke and on his brain a hematoma. He was in the hospital. The hematoma was bleeding. Toto had just died and Bodhi was in the hospital with a rare blood disease IMHA in critical condition. I wasContinue reading “Looking Inside my husband’s brain”
Wings~~Tanka/Prose
Angel man
keep growing those wings
together…
we’ll fly out of here.
single tanka published in Spillwords, 2020
Forced~~tanka
Today I forced the morning glory up the trellis– to be or not to be. Genie Nakano, August 18, 2021
Flow~~
Be like water flow into my glass one day I’ll wake up singing darkness into light Genie Nakano, 2020
solid~~haiku
My Dad’s room all the furniture solid oak. Genie Nakano, 2019
The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth at Spillwords.com
today, tomorrow,now Spillwords.com presents: The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth written by Genie Nakano – I was born in Boyle Heights, CA…known as the barrios of East L.A. Source: The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth at Spillwords.com Press here to read i–the meek shall inherit the earth
Haiku~~farewell regrets
Letting go so hard for the falcon holding its prey… Genie Nakano, July 6, 2021( inspired by Grace of the Sun)
