Afternoon of July 21, 2024

                                                 Crawdaddy 

                                                ~Kelly Moyer

                                                Photography available here

rocky raccoon masking behavior

~Jerome Berglund

dragon lady

afloat in the deep end

raccoon mascara

~Randy Brooks

plenty of fish . . .

wash ashore

in the heatwave

~Kimberly Kuchar

raining men

raining apples

in a surrealistic realm

~Fhen M.

Life of Mom

On the fridge

I taped

a drawing

a house, a sun,

blue skies

“Keep practicing”

I said to her

I’ll help you

~Katie Hong

I can’t stop crying

but then—

chocolate mousse

~Sharon Ferrante

Tears

Tears are not the dishes

of diplomacy

but melancholic chirps

of a solitary nightingale.

~O.P. Jha

Life’s theatre —

We enter

Hit our marks

Say our lines

Exit on cue

 

No rehearsal

No applause

No encore

 

Reviews will

Always be mixed

~Pam Makin

Light

Night

A road that leads

To new ways

New days

 

Dawn is somewhere

Beyond darkness

 

And I am alone

 

Ranting

 

Like a prophet

~Pam Makin

etiquette blogger

so thoughtless

as a corpse

~John J. Dunphy

opening window wide

a deep breath of fresh

chemical reactions

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Orange as Ever

Gone with the wind

As all things should

The orange evening fades violet

As the leaves bristle in surprise

Life passes by

Cradled back and forth with the meshing seasons

Left in a tepid cycle

But as long as it is orange,

It’s fine.

~David Kim

Lost in Blue

Remember life

You used to be so blue

Satisfied if I play along

First embrace I shared with you

Above us, only sky

I can paint the world

It was all just make believe

~Jian Yeo

grandpa recites

a poem from Lord Byron

milking a cow

~Randy Brooks

ragout

on the polenta

no crosstalk

~Jerome Berglund

A Very Serious Gallery

 

The sign outside says

you are not welcome

if you are a Bon Jovi fan.

 

I will admit

I don’t like Bon Jovi much.

But now I wish I did.

~Noah Berlatsky

carnival rings

the various colours

of happiness

~Mona Bedi

kicking pad—

the karate kids

kick rain

~Tejendra Sherchan

grove stream—

quickens its gurgle

finding the slope

~Tejendra Sherchan

“Just relax” they said

“Go with the flow”

But they couldn’t hear the roar

of the waterfall inside my head

~Pam Makin

everything we see hides another thing,

we always want to see

what is hidden by what we see

~Fhen M.