Morning of March 14, 2025

 

 

The hours I spend

reading your poems, zen masters,

burn with sacred fire.

~Morley Cacoethes




sending regrets

The Thinker

having second thoughts

~Barrie Levine




bird flies up halving the sky

~Tejendra Sherchan




x-ray films all the bones outlasting me

~Barrie Levine




mistook the poem for periodontal machine

~Noah Berlatsky




day moon somewhere i become someone

~Vijay Prasad




fate lines rechecking my apotelesm

~Arvinder Kaur




twilight in the battlefield wind’s dirge

~Arvinder Kaur




now empty the condemned convict's cell

~John J. Dunphy




toy shovels

foretell the sand

children at play


~Elliot Diamond




high-wind warning

the earthworm's parachute

full of finch feathers

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer




Farm Fresh


Locking eyes

with the void,

I become nothing;

though, today,

I am a tuber,

ripped as I was

from solid ground,

that you can,

if you wish,

imagine happy.

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer




vernal equinox

I take my coffee with

half and half

~John J. Dunphy




being alone…

plaintive drip drip of the

dehumidifier

~David Cox




Gurgles of melting

snow and dead leaves from the church

where we shadows lurk.


~Morley Cacoethes




how slow

the blooming of a peace lily

bedroom argument

~Arvinder Kaur




evolutionary theory


chronic illness

i embrace

my adaptations

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

 

 


 

 

Heterodox Haiku: Open for theme of roots

Reading thru March. Send up to 10 photo haiku/haiga or tanka art exploring theme of roots (figuratively, literally, loosely or closely). Ideally rectangular (not square) art, as we will be full paging these in 5x8 sizing. Appreciated if you have photos available separate from words, as will be eventually titling selections all w/same font and style for consistency! Email: thesmokingshow@yahoo.com.

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