Showing posts with label Narrative Poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Narrative Poetry. Show all posts

Sunday, October 12, 2025

Travels on Highway 101: At the Edges of the West

 




At the Edges of the West

By Mike Garofalo

Travels on US Highway 101 and 1

Memories of Pacific Coast Places
West Coast Snapshots & Snippets
Delightful Coastal Spur Roads

Docu-Poem, Haiku, Short Poems, Photos,
Sonnets, Quintains, Graphics, Concrete Poems

Highway 101 and 1: Docu-Poem
By Mike Garofalo

Alphabetical Index of Titles


Beachcombing and Tidepooling

Big Sur

Bottom Line

Bridges Over Rivers

East Los Angeles Revisited

El Camino Real

Campfires Smoking

Clear Cut

Cliffside at Bandon Beach

The Clock Ticks Within the Mind

Concrete/Shape Poetry

Coos Bay South to Point Reyes

Disappearing Darkness

Down for the Count

Down South

Embodied Time

The Eucalyptus Trees at Tomales Bay

Eye to Eye Memories

Fields of Cream

Fire! Fire!

Flowers in the Sky

A Fork in the Crypto Road

Funky Artist's Enclaves

Fun Times Ahead

Grayland Beach Guides

Gushen Grove Sonnets

Haiku and Senryu

Hip Woke West

Hood Canal: Beauty and Bounty

In a Watery Grave

In the Shadows of Mountains

Industries Booming

Cliffside at Bandon Beach

Lighthouses On the Cliffs

Meeting at the Golden Gate

Myrtlewood and Shells Alive

Night Camp at Pistol River

Notes and Reminders

The Olympic Curve on 101

Petaluma Cool

Places and Times Intertwined

Quatrains Bundled Up

Raven Broke Open the Magical Clam

Reminder from the Other World

River People North

The Rotting Redwood Tree

Salinas Valley Farms

The Salmon are Back

SanFran and L.A. Lives

Sciences Strong

The Scissors of My Decisions

Secrets of Night

Shallow Willapa Bay at Low Tide

Sitting by the Still Bay

Skeletons in Love

Slouching Into Incoherence

Snapshots from the Shore

Stepping Over Epiphanies

Summer in the Sun

Surfing Way

Timber Empire

25 Steps and Beyond

2+2 = 4: Now and Forever More

West Coast Ideologies

Winter at the Shore

 

 


 

Friday, March 28, 2025

25 Steps and Beyond: The Collected Works of Mike Garofalo

25 Steps and Beyond:
The Collected Works

By Mike Garofalo

Poetry, Anthologies, Indexes
Studies, Blog, Guides, Travel
Ethics, Art, Koans, Spirituality

 

US Highway 101 and Hwy 1

US Highway 99 and Interstate 5

Cuttings: Tercets, Haiku, Epigrams

The Gushen Grove Sonnets

Stepping Over Epiphanies

Bundled Up: Tanka Poems

Above the Fog

Daodejing: Indexes, Concordance, Anthology

A Fork in the Crypto Road

727 Riddles, Jokes, Brain Teasers

The Spirit of Gardening

Docu-Poem

Haiku - North Sacramento Valley

Flowers in the Sky

Biography: Mike Garofalo

At the Edges of the West, Volume 1

At the Edges of the Fertile West, Volume 2

Exhibits of TextArt

The Wreck Ahead Comes Into View

Cloud Hands Blog

How to Live a Good Life

Stuck in Some Concrete Poetry

The Raven Broke Open the Magical Clam

Pulling Onions: 1,000 One Liners

Four Days at Grayland Beach

Meetings with Master Chang San Feng

25 Steps and Beyond Anthology

Biography: Mike Garofalo

One Short of a Baker's Dozen

More Poetry by Mike Garofalo

Poetry Research

Interstate 5 and Hwy 99

Five Senses

Memories of Pacific Coast Places

One Old Daoist Druid's Final Journey

Uncle Mike's Cellphone Poetry Series

Fireplace Records Koan Collection

Brief Poems and Haiku

Epigrams, Quips, Sayings: 1,000 One Liners

Tao Te Ching: Concordance, Anthology

Zen Buddhist Koans: Research, Indexes

Blooming Onions Pulled from the Mind-Ground

Zen Poetry

Virtues and the Good Life

Villanelle Form Poems

Sonnet Form Studies

Biography: Mike Garofalo

Monthly Observations and Poetry

Green Way Research Index

Body-Mind-Somatics Arts

Tai Chi Chuan and Qigong

Neo-Pagan Spirituality Studies

Tanka Poetry

Travel Poetry: CA, OR, WA, BC

Flowers

Meditations of a Gardener

Free Verse Poetry

Cuttings: Haiku and Tercets (1998-2016)

Transitions: Haiku and Tercets (2017-2024)

Stopping to See: Haiku and Tercets (2025-)

A Gift of Dried Garlic Flowers

Dialogues in the Renga Style

Fourfold Ways: Quatrains

Two Levels: Haibun Poetry

Tercets, Haiku, Epigrams

Doggerel Verse

Prose Poems

In Progress: Hands On

March Cuttings

 

the scissors of my decisions

more to come ...

 

 

Mike Garofalo lives in Vancouver, Washington,
Orchards & Five Corners Neighborhoods
Northeast Clark County.

He is available for public readings or gigs
in Vancouver, Portland, south to Salem,
and north to Olympia.

He writes, reads and studies Poetry.
His hobbies include: gardening,
web publishing, walking adventures,
harmonica playing, yurt camping,
reading, playing, studying, blogging,
Taijiquan, writing, string figures,
exploring the Northwest USA.,
research studies and local trips.

He has been web publishing since
1998 at Green Way Research.

Mike is 80 years of age.
He has a decent, pleasant, and
friendly speaking voice.
He is a big tall elderly gent.

Best to send him email to:
    mpgarofalobooks@gmail.com


 

 

    

 

 

TextArt and Concrete Poetry

At the Edges of the West, Volume 1
Highway 101 and Hwy 1

25 Steps and Beyond: Collected Works

 

This document was last edited, revised,
reformatted, added to, relinked,
changed, improved, or modified
by Mike Garofalo
on March 27, 2025.