Afternoon of February 7, 2026

I am weary

of the responsibilities of the world

longing for more time to just be

~Jennifer Gurney

painted toenails-

a      bouquet      hidden      under      socks

~Patricia Nellene Deal

farewell six spiders on my wall

~Bernadette O'Reilly

wages of his sins our death

~dan smith

candlesnuff fungi some elves write poetry at night

~Pegah Rahmati Nezhad

unfazed by human chaos phased moon

~Pegah Rahmati Nezhad

snow moon

my sister says

don’t come

~Ingrid Bruck

his goal~

live long enough

to regret it

~Ingrid Bruck

in concert

       with dripping icicles

my nose

~Ingrid Bruck

on thin ice

fawn’s legs spell out

help in Morse code

aiming the weapon

between its eyes

Donald Duck shoots out

…flowers

the ducks name him

“tyrant of petals”

~Martina Matijević

retirement day

all his binder clips

emptied

~Barrie Levine

from sea to shining sea . . .

deadly route

through the political climate

~Barrie Levine

Some things won’t fade

If your teacup’s empty

Time to go home

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Invasion

invasion by plastic....

Hollow universe and

deep oceans are already dethroned,

next our cognition will get plastic.

~Partha Sarkar

bullfrogs stacked in the tank

she said: 'Remember when we used to breathe through our skin?'

~Patrick Sweeney

thunder snow

calling out to the last

of the Taoist magicians

~Patrick Sweeney

deep snow

the forest isn't talking

again today

~Patrick Sweeney

 

 

 

when the world

emits harsh

all I crave is soft

~Jennifer Gurney

Morning of February 4, 2026

 

his cat doesn't care if he's an abject failure

 

~Patrick Sweeney

everyone knows what's wrong with everyone else's hair

~Patrick Sweeney

old

pond

a

frog

leaps

into

a

block

of

ice

~Patrick Sweeney

eye witnesses

multiple angles

of truth

~Christa Pandey

moon

illuminates your shadow

in fairy dust


~Sarah Mahina Calvello

comedy club

the recovering alcoholic's

dry wit

~John J. Dunphy

uphill walk

a down feather guides

me ahead

~Tejendra Sherchan

streetsweepers abiding by the order of duct tape

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

crowdfunding the circle of crows

~Hifsa Ashraf

lawsuit the whereabouts of magpies


~Hifsa Ashraf

Afternoon of February 2, 2026

 

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

altostratus moon

step by step

into Fimbulwinter

~Joshua St. Claire

twilight walk home insecurity cameras

~Wendy Cobourne

passing through bushes

the smoke shadow

as it leaves me

~Jerome Berglund

Even if

Even if I do not want to,

AI will compel me

to forget my own entity.

~Partha Sarkar

deserted street

the pigeon returns

to the puddle

~Francoise Maurice

Minneapolis

bitterly cold wind

so much ice

~Marie Derley

kindness

feels like a dream when the world

is so full of ice

~Jennifer Gurney

our guides to peace

a poet, a nurse and

barefoot monks in snow

 

~Jennifer Gurney

 

the world

is a witness

cellphone video

~Jennifer Gurney

loaded with truth camera

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Microbes of the mind

passed on by someone

who does not love us.

~Jeffrey Taylor

city park

a squirrel reaches

for a handout

~Gareth Nurden

night train

lives pass by

in the blink of an eye

~Gareth Nurden

letting

the first mosquito go

not the second

~Hynek Koziol

The Bagman

shuffles by in tattered Nikes

pushing a rusty shopping cart

with one hand, a half empty

bottle in the other.

He is singing ( slightly off-key 

I notice ) " climb in " he says

" oh, most ethical one

let's have one more cup

before we go. "

~dan smith

work in progress

revising

my life

~M. R. Pelletier

 

 

 

Where to submit your work this month

 

tinywords

https://tinywords.com/submit/

Only Human Senryu

https://www.onlyhumansenryu.com/guidelines

Circle of Salt

http://circleofsaltmag.blogspot.com/

smols

https://smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com/

Horror Senryu Journal

https://horrorkujournal.blogspot.com/

Kingfisher Journal

https://kingfisherjournal.com/submissions/

theme: sex, drugs, and rock & roll