Evening of May 14, 2025


hitching a ride

in the wrong direction

night birds

~Anne Fox




the prize inside

all our cereals…

microplastic

~Anne Fox




just a bluebird

between the monster

and me

~Anne Fox




garden gnome

the pagan

in all of us

~Anne Fox




A Poem That Wouldn’t Exist Without Auden


Poetry makes nothing happen.

Sometimes though,

something we need

is for nothing to happen.

~Noah Berlatsky




so is our universe

dying in ten to the power of

seventy eight years

~Tejendra Sherchan




flesh and bones

laid to rest

on the grill

~Jiel Narvekar




all rush

to the hot seat

the tortoise trudges on

~Jiel Narvekar




a small cottage

among trees

never will

grow

up

~Ivan Georgiev




dead level

counting potholes

on the road

~Ivan Georgiev




Fleeting, rushing, hugging, better,

Slipping, losing, gripping, never.

Squeezing, quenching, catch forever,

Burn myself into something better.

~Hannah Terry




Years Later


Worry, fear, peace of mind.

Separate from friends,

Lightning overhead.

Sheltered from the storm,

Happily alone.

Danger to myself” no more than ripples in the lake.

~Hannah Terry




semicolon . . .

the wrist tattoo known

all too well

~Randy Brooks




winging it

without a retirement plan

blue heron

~Randy Brooks





A Stretching Yearn To End


Dusty book pages

for Souls imprisoned alone

where other Hearts beat

golden to warm melodies

of Summers not out of reach.

~Paul Tristram




A perfect inertia


An empty beer can in the stagnant pond...

A perfect inertia.

~Partha Sarkar




floating

in the koi pond

plastic bottle

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




         consolation prize

         falling in love

         with his fedora

        ~Stephanie Zepherelli




just as we are 

no preservatives 

or artificial colors

~Stephanie Zepherelli




nightly sleepwalk

demons and ghosts

serve chamomile tea

~Stephanie Zepherelli




empty skies running away from nothing

~Stephanie Zepherelli

 

 


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