Morning of March 20, 2024

 

vital signs

a flea jumps

into my verse

~Cezar Ciobica

horror story

termites feasting

on the attic floor

~Jahnavi Gogoi

potter's field

on an unmarked grave

a praying mantis

~John J. Dunphy

sliver moon

a Cheshire cat

licks my halo

~Cezar Ciobica

golf course

emerging from the water hazard

a gator

~John J. Dunphy

So Sorry

The turtle is confused by Spring.

He’s in such a sorry state.

He can’t determine if

he should put out patio furniture

or insulate his shell.

~Nolcha Fox

power failure

a doll crying

for help

~Cezar Ciobica

whatever

worked for us yesterday

not working today

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

dandelion clocks —

my father's

last wish

~Cezar Ciobica

identity crisis

a dandelion wonders

flower or weed?

~Jahnavi Gogoi

Life 2.0

Faster, brighter and greater

The meek can inherit the world now,

…and pay later.

~David Mitchell

defunct wifi a wave of light caressing the blankness

~Arvinder Kaur

too small to recognize bras in dryer

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

cat cute cut out ou oh o zero

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

what I need now is

to be stabbed through the eye

filled with granite and stupid

autumn

~Noah Berlatsky

drought relief

a frog wedding in

the village

~Jahnavi Gogoi

group photo

a face in the last row

fades in the frame

~Arvinder Kaur

Still chirp birds

Amidst man made debris—

The eternal conscience

Flouting human's development—

A pride without cognition.

~Partha Sarkar

surf and turf

master of all

he can order

~Helen Buckingham

a leaf of my soul is torn off

I haven't seen sakura for a long time

I've never seen sakura

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

rock

paper

guano

~Helen Buckingham

old railroad tracks scattered in a woods

at night a train whistle

still blows

~Steve Van Allen

day moon

or spy balloon

blue sky winking

~Helen Buckingham