Morning of August 3, 2025

 

 

 

 

What Lines?

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer




 

 

 

 

 

 

when the strings

are pulled

he comes to life

and dances:

the wooden politician


~
Mark Gilbert




cicadas

political pundits

reach fever pitch

~Douglas J. Lanzo




sticking my nose in a few political uncertainties


~
Roberta Beach Jacobson




# 1 way to tell

you are part of a criminal enterprise

whistleblowers called snitches


~dan smith




false memories

of nonchalant beetles

and murders

committed by

nobody……….


~
Mark Gilbert




in the dark

the rhythmic thunder

of eyelash

on pillowcase

buffed and rebuffed


~
Mark Gilbert




Missing

 

Hunkered down in bed, I adjust my pillow,

finally ready for that book I’ve been so eagerly

anticipating, only to find page one                              .


~
Scott C. Holstad




damn sure feels like a prose poem


~
Scott C. Holstad




invisible fuxxed secret codez – another diluted found pome


they are praying for me now

demons merely posing as angels

trembling under the weight of the word

musta been screaming when they got hit

replaceable deviance not in control


~
Scott C. Holstad




a butterfly suffering from cold -

in a refugee camp a child shivers


~Paul Callus




a stray dog wails

in the wee hours

darkness swallows it


~Tejendra Sherchan




last leaf

this desire to become

the moon


~Debarati Sen




road puddles

doing enough to host

croaking frogs


~Tejendra Sherchan




The ambulance


Come soon even on a rainy evening

but never rush to death.


~Partha Sarkar




dead cockroach

its antennae

still flashing


~Tejendra Sherchan




Fahrenheit

 

telling me

the temperature

outside his window

and how to convert it

and who has died


~
Mark Gilbert




pill bottle warning

not to be taken

seriously


~M. R. Pelletier




our world

a net negative

for earth


~M. R. Pelletier




waking inside a sentence meant for the Other


~Vijay Prasad




holy holy holy

the unsullied flesh

of a rutabaga


~Kelly Sauvage Moyer




two-factor authentication

downloading . . .

the key to consciousness


~Kelly Sauvage Moyer




perennial bed

the joy of deadheading

lovers for stew


~Kelly Sauvage Moyer




Journals open for submissions in August


Acorn Haiku / Chrysanthemum / Enchanted Garden (coffee or tea poems) 
 

/ Haiku Girl Summer (only Aug 1-15) / Kingfisher / noon poetry / tinywords

 

 


Morning of July 30, 2025

 


 

diamond rains in neptune my failure to fly

~Tejendra Sherchan




she wants him to find another book club, quick-ly

~Patrick Sweeney




loneliness epidemic as second covid

~Martina Matijević




most of the day barefoot and mystified

~Patrick Sweeney



the failed voice from locked lungs of a room

~Vijay Prasad




The roof of your mouth

is actually a ceiling.

~Nicholas De Marino




if I could get 'round that last integral sign

before another pear

sucker-punches the roof

~Patrick Sweeney




holding an umbrella

the shadow of a shadow

eclipses a moon

~Elliot Diamond




can of worms

Warhol's soul

the first one out

~Vishal Prabhu




my quantum poetry

so Einsteinian

relatively

~dan smith





flute recital

an ant journeys

up my leg

~Neena Singh




Sliding Acrostic


     Death

    dEath

  deAth

 deaTh

deatH

~Nicholas De Marino




greetings

to the cockroaches

post-war

~Oliver Kleyer




proclaiming

a general amnesty

resetting the chess board

~Oliver Kleyer




potter's field

all the grave flowers dead

from weedkiller

~John J. Dunphy




hospice haiku

every poem

a one-liner

~John J. Dunphy




say, whatever happened to all those lighthearted spots

when the smiling local reporters

fried an egg on the sidewalk

~Patrick Sweeney




with a six-hundred-million-year-old smile

he wants to be reborn

a sea apple

~Patrick Sweeney

 

 

Open All of July and August

acorn haiku: https://www.acornhaiku.com/submissions

 

 


 

Afternoon of July 26, 2025

 



Goldilocks world

stripped of minerals

and bombed to hell

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel




the gesture

was a fatal mistake

road rage

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel




New Mexico

the mere suggestion

of stop signs

~Scott Wiggerman




air strikes

a supercut

of silences

~Bipasha Majumder (De)




cadaver planet

small creatures run

where builders strode

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel




Rope Swing

The man on the rope swing

casts off from shore,

disappears in fog

caressing the river

as we listen

for a splash

or the rope to return

with or without him.

~Diane Webster




flea market

an old uncle's photograph

perhaps

~Scott Wiggerman




lips not moving

the ventriloquist

in his coffin

~John J. Dunphy




a woman walks

through marigolds

vanishes with them

~Tejendra Sherchan



 

trampled ferns

the unfinished story

of the old factory

~Boryana Boteva




trickle of water

from the gutter

AC leak

~Scott Wiggerman




third wheel


wordless dictionaries

silent talks, 

glances that converse; 


none


just third, at a table for two

~Allen David Simon




morning rainbow

all things I can't keep

~Fatma Zohra Habis




morning frost

blowing hot air

on the window

my finger-drawn heart

sheds a tear

~Fatma Zohra Habis




nightmare...awakening

trapped in a void

waiting for the key

~Sherri J Moye-Dombrosky




through shotgun holes

on the Jesus Saves billboard

glint of stars

~Scott Wiggerman




сommunism for the well-fed

~Mykyta Ryzhykh




Litter Falling


The slab of peeling

paint and rust

stands like a painting

hung in the forest

of autumn leaves

littering each other

fall after fall.

~Diane Webster




I Was a Cat


In my past life, I was a cat.

When it’s hot, I want nothing more than to drop onto the cool floor and stretch out.

When it’s cold, I want to cuddle up in a warm blanket and sleep all day.

If I don’t want to be touched, beware...I bite.

If I do want attention, I pester him to get off his computer.

Yesterday, I craved salmon, which I devoured within seconds. 

Today, I felt the temptation to follow him to the "powder room."

Perhaps, I am still a cat?

~Sherri J Moye-Dombrosky




the cat yowls in triumph

for she has slain and dragged upstairs

another pair of underwear

~Noah Berlatsky

 

 

Open All of July


Seashores Haiku Journal

https://www.haikuspirit.org/seashores.html




Frogpond Journal

https://www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond/submissions.html




First Frost

https://www.firstfrostpoetry.com/submit

 

 

 

The Solitary Daisy (Open for about a week)


Editors would like to hear from poets who have never been published in

The Solitary Daisy
before. The theme is open;
editors like a seasonal

reference
(and a bit of a surprise). Send one or two haiku to Sally at

sally_quon@yahoo.com or to Michele at kelownalady@hotmail.com.

In
clude your location.

 

 


 

Afternoon of July 25, 2025

 



eggshell is reversible

~Mykyta Ryzhykh




careful, he takes his cloud formations seriously

~Patrick Sweeney




chaos in the streets now palpable our discontent

~dan smith




little bang theory

~Mykyta Ryzhykh




a cool breeze from the short-tempered

~Patrick Sweeney




heyday where are you now

~Keith Evetts




i watch my name walking away in another's mouth

~Vijay Prasad




garbage chute to the galaxy

~Mykyta Ryzhykh




he's over there, lecturing on the life cycle of a particular species of bamboo

~Patrick Sweeney




false teeth

in a ripe banana

making art

history

~Keith Evetts




midnight

the internet attracts

little black flies

~Keith Evetts




o god

far worlds of ice

await our robots

~Keith Evetts




nursing home

boyfriends from two different wars

my grandma, the cougar

~Jennifer Gurney




Sea bed mining


At last hairy hand of greed touches fathomless sea bed

ignoring the existence of divine beings of water kingdom.

~Partha Sarkar



 

When Land Becomes One with the Sky



pieces of earth rose to air

and became sky islands

where we all live now

away from each other

on small pieces of land

 

I look at the sky island

which was once my school

and another one

which was once my house

flying ever closer to space

~Alper Ghuchlu




data centers-

our thirst

our dessication

~dan smith




The light tries

To fall the right way

Just like people

~Sarah Mahina Calvello




steel sky

full of aluminum

butterflies

~Mykyta Ryzhykh




he sat on his knees and scooped

up water from the lake the birds

watched him and drank the silence

~Mykyta Ryzhykh




tail raised on mudstone

a dragonfly's

prehistoric longing

~Patrick Sweeney




canals of Mars

watchtowers scout the sea

as the first martian war

rages on

humans always the same

no matter where

~Alper Ghuchlu




a laid-back neurotic

making assiduous notes

in a one-room apartment

~Patrick Sweeney




all those gray-haired Yes fans

near-Earth Objects

shimmering

~Patrick Sweeney




66 years struggling to make ends meet

and she steps into a sinkhole

searching for a cat

~Patrick Sweeney




42 blackbirds singing


back end of a peacock celebrity


St Francis' statue

evidently much revered

by pigeons


many crows one testimony


a seagull snaffles

the last of my saveloy—

summer is ending


leaving me the autumn swallows

~Keith Evetts

 



Last day to submit: Failed Haiku

https://failedhaiku.com/submissions-guidelines/