A Quiet Place of Note (A Poem)

By Joyce Jacobo [Author’s Note: Based on a trip taken several years ago to a small park near a massive mall in Oceanside, Ca. There were patches of woods there with trails that ran around the side of a steep incline. You could see the vast sprawl of the city from the top. It was

A Straight and Simple Path (A Poem)

By Joyce Jacobo [Author’s Note: We each have our own unique paths through life.] I have sometimes heard of           but never found             a simple             unchanged path                        through life               like a velvet carpet unfurled                      straight to grand goals                                such as Success                                         or Wisdom                                         or Inner peace— So far            most