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
