Afternoon of February 2, 2025

Open all of February: https://tinywords.com/submit


first time ever in my dream giraffe

~Tejendra Sherchan




ratting the mongoose year of the snake

~Rashmi VeSa




antidote of all venoms honey badger

~Tejendra Sherchan




even inside

the dragon’s belly

it is spring

~Noah Berlatsky




'til death do us part —

my very last words

to the mosquito

~Mark Meyer




five fleas

one minute on the dog

then they're gone

~Mark Meyer




15-yard dash

the pesky cockroach

wins by a hair

~Mark Meyer




a hare shy


on the other side

of the looking glass

Alice’s transition

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer/Terri L. French




ethical doubts


date night

the lobster’s

handcuff collection

~Robert P. Moyer/Kelly Sauvage Moyer




beloved escargot


second edition

the posthumous success

of a bard

~Robert P. Moyer/Kelly Sauvage Moyer




chest-deep

in the city sewer

chocolate dreams

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel




crocodile eyes

smiling in the bayou

I wake in your jaws

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel




Martian slugs

heartless romantics whose love

songs swept the system

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel




It Still Rains


in the market place

almost every day-

It's a blue metallic rain

and it's always fresh

with a salty after taste-

So it's hard to see the ghosts

that float just out of reach

but stay still

you will feel their gentle push

toward the light of brighter days

~dan smith



The excitement

Of a new coffee mug

In the morning

~Sarah Mahina Calvello




ground truthing grief in the field of loss

~Rashmi VeSa




the past participle of I in the past tense of self

~Rashmi VeSa




moss post-truth particle

~Rashmi VeSa




the day stares at me passing by

~Vijay Prasad


Open all of February: 

http://www.chrysanthemum-haiku.net/en/submission-guidelines.html