Morning of October 15, 2025

Crime Scene

Clay Head ~Alf B. Meier & Photo ~Roberta Beach Jacobson

In the sky without a ladder

~Nicoletta Ignatti

photographer

captures a field of daisies

reflected

in the eyes of

a jumping spider

~Tejendra Sherchan

I fight

losing battles against

the cockroaches

~Tejendra Sherchan

year’s end

the low drone

of bone cold


~John Pappas

bare branches forgetting the names of

~John Pappas

morning coffee

I gas up

the hearse

~John Pappas

moonset the hollow of bird bones

~John Pappas

Perpetual Mediocrity

aging ex-beauty queens with 

facemask perma-grooves

digging deep into ReeL Parisian 

Louis Vuitton while the 

plain janes look on sporting 

perpetually tormented 

expressions so very twisted 

by all they’ll never have/be.

~Scott Holstad

Gag Realz

playing repeating records --

dancing terror tunes -- 

ain’t been more irrelevant --

Kakfa never saw AI coming –

he'd have punted Josephine //

~Scott Holstad

Rocketing

Camelback whispers 

warnings of dried heat 

exhaustion at 12:30 am, 

desert blooming where 

skying palms reign

and cacti lie waiting

~Scott Holstad

a perfect time of the season

for the return of The Zombies

~Patrick Sweeney

a new tattoo

everyone reading

her shoulder

~Patrick Sweeney

every kid in the class was a haiku master

~Patrick Sweeney

juror number 8 has another question

~Patrick Sweeney

she's the mathematician

who refused to carry

the zero

~Patrick Sweeney

far from the jaguar dream

wild men speak to me on the street

~Patrick Sweeney

birdcage bars

a trapped hummingbird

wearing gang-red

~Richard L. Matta

Peace Photography

no need to check the levels

we are all one light

step out of the shadows

whirl around the sun

dance with the unity

every particle

every wave

speaks I AM

says step out

and dance

~dan smith

On the Memory of Mr. Gibson Signing His Album Cover

the stoned idleness

fills La Cave

to far reaches of empty mind

Bob Gibson's ringing guitar

a distant temple bell

pealing away the mist of time

~dan smith

near-death experience

I borrow a life

from my cat

~thomas david

zoom meeting

even the camera

struggles to focus

~thomas david

haiku bingo

all I need

is cicada

~thomas david

mating for life the salt and pepper shakers

~thomas david

across the river

across memories

the old cottage

still stands

~Nisha Raviprasad

paunch of 

a pauper....

paucity of 

patty

pay dirt.

~Partha Sarkar

Dead

Does the dead remain lifelong dead?


~Partha Sarkar

cherry blossoms

mysterious as before

the old sewing machine

~Boryana Boteva

Innovation in the arts is mostly marketing.

This is a new idea.

Please share.

~Noah Berlatsky

 

 

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