Evening of June 25, 2026

Submit anytime: Medusa’s Kitchen

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the abstract gesture of forgotten thought

~dan smith

the purple prose of yellow journalism

~dan smith

mom’s watchful eyes after this white butterfly

~Maya Daneva

eating quantum pi at the Science Fair

~dan smith

waiting for straight talk

in talks about

the Strait


~Douglas J. Lanzo

 

leaping for joy

FIFA players

at first hydration break

~Douglas J. Lanzo

 

The silence 

Between our names 

Fills with moonlight 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

 

No more war

No more violence 

No more division 

No more excision

No more genocide 

No more femicide

No more nature drowned

No more debris on the shore 

No more trees felled

The crow's voice caws "NO MORE"....

~Olinda Ninolakis

 

war

again 

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

ouija board

the spirit keeps

misspelling words

~John J. Dunphy

 

leaving

the smell of diesel exhaust

at the bus terminal

~Joseph P. Wechselberger

Deadline July 31: Horror Senryu Journal (print version)

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Deadline July 15: Modern Haiku

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Evening of June 24, 2026

Open all this month: Only Human Senryu

https://www.onlyhumansenryu.com/guidelines

Open through July 1: Kokako

https://kokako10.wordpress.com/submissions/

Writer's block - 

my inner critic

never short of words

~Caroline Ridley-Duff

dark laughter

vultures hover over

the hospital

~Bob Carlton

 

dawn in

the sewer the

crazed rat

fidgets and

waits for

his chance at

what he

knows not

~Bob Carlton

 

he said something about the dangerous individualism of the wren

~Patrick Sweeney

with Ice at the door: would I calmly eat my pot-au-feu

like Labiche in "The Train'

~Patrick Sweeney

happy in our gravity: we agreed we'd be crushed on Jupiter

and dunking from the foul line on Mercury

~Patrick Sweeney

 

 

Box of ghosts

All those crooked photographs 

Ashes of youth 


~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

though he lightly touched on the ripple effects of 1096

people kept moving away from him

~Patrick Sweeney

 

all I had to do was sit in the sun and count my freckles

~Patrick Sweeney

tracing my anxiety back to the Three Little Pigs

and a possible flaw in the mathematics of revolving doors

~Patrick Sweeney

the bin

filled to the brim again

this eternal fuss over

who takes out the trash

~Jackie Chou

 

exasperated 

in a long bus ride

I lose track

of what I want in life

~Jackie Chou

I've been in the middle of nowhere before

~Patrick Sweeney

Submit anytime: Circle of Salt Mag

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Submit anytime: smols

https://smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com/

 

 

Afternoon of June 23, 2026

Before the Art
 

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

 

 

The Devil

Nipping

at my heels

as I race

up the stairs . . .

He stops

at the single

upside-down

baluster

~Kimberly Kuchar

moth

fights to escape a cobweb

earthquake

~Tejendra Sherchan 

Rag doll in the attic

staring into space.

Tornado

~Jeffrey L. Taylor

Under one umbrella

both of us

get half wet.

~Jeffrey L. Taylor

The Critic

Pay me and I will evaluate

the art you love. It isn’t great.

~Noah Berlatsky

for one day

we saw and remembered

presidential

~Jennifer Gurney

words are spells 

even mermaids

drown,

words are spells;

you are meant to 

create not destroy:

both worlds and

people.

~linda m. crate 

French onion soup

the long stretch

of a rendezvous

~Randy Brooks

In The Cosmic Nursery

time stretches

voids yawn

it's a gas, man

~dan smith

house

with barbed wire fence

a dead tree inside 

~Tejendra Sherchan

after the second beyond  a wait

~Vijay Prasad

stagnant pool all the reasons why we parted

~Neena Singh

 

 

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