Morning of May 18, 2025

 
Warrior

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

advent of generative AI

a new era

for scammers

~Alper Ghuchlu

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our hour long drive

to the IT service

~Alper Ghuchlu

invention of guns

ends

the era of heros

~Alper Ghuchlu

ruined textbook

my artifact

of a year's work

~Alper Ghuchlu

a rogue comma splices the two silences

~Vijay Prasad

 

all

the missing commas

,,,,,

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

 

midsummer night

a raven’s caw ripples

the silence

~Hifsa Ashraf

autumn meadow

two monarchs crossed

my path

~Hifsa Ashraf

imagine that butterfly

     without wings—

now you know

     how I feel

~Albert Schlaht

my mind:

many flowers wait to bloom—

even more wither and die

~Albert Schlaht

Kerouac remains on a hill

drinking his bottle of wine

and tossing up haiku

~Albert Schlaht

 

an eye for detail

treasure hunting

at the flea market

Jack Kerouac book

“On The Road”

~Paul Callus

~Linda L Ludwig

in the cloud

reading his future:

late autumn

~R.K.Singh

with dim lamp

no new heaven or earth—

hiemal quietude

~R.K.Singh

sound vibration

collapse of energy field—

loud Holi hymns

~R.K.Singh

ram's head

in the altar of a shaman

facing to heaven

~Tejendra Sherchan

flat bastard

she backs the steamroller

up again

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

shearing the not-sheep demands for higher wages

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

the ancient book in blood-warm skin

a whispered chant heard from within

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

the yawn a doomed fly

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

And the civilized poster is

Taxis.

Taxi dancer.

Taxis.

Taxidermy.

Taxin taximeter.

Where to go?

Shiver in fear the rickety legs.

~Partha Sarkar

SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD

all the dead bodies

on the sidewalk

are from ODs

not murder

~John Grey

prison

visitor smuggles in

a banned book

~John J. Dunphy

yard sale

a watercolor

damp from rain

~John J. Dunphy

birthday candles my math anxiety

~Barrie Levine

saving the planet

our mossy yard

alienates the neighbors

~Barrie Levine

The View Of A Dog

The dogs outside the dog park

are more interesting 

than the dogs inside the dog park

when I am in the dog park.

The dogs inside the dog park

are very interesting though

when I am outside the dog park.

~Noah Berlatsky

10 commandments

on the classroom wall

how many have

the politicians

broken

~Tom Blessing

wading in ma ganges

i watch the muddy souls

swirl around my knees

~Tom Blessing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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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Evening of May 12, 2025

 

Star-Crossed

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

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~Vijay Prasad

cave mouth closes

stalactites and stalagmites

chew

~Nicholas De Marino

shoe elves buried

in Amazon avalanche

next-day failures

~Nicholas De Marino

tarot reading


I discover


my past karma



~Mona Bedi

dervishes


on a moonlit clothesline


a mad fandango

~Mike Gallagher

a pound of flesh

the butcher’s knife –

chop, chop, chop

 

the mutton –

crack, snap, snip

 

the stray dogs to the fallen bits –

munch, munch, munch

~Allen David Simon

roadkill

no driver

no feeling

~Helen Buckingham

A warning sign

On the road ahead

Jagged turbulence

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Jeweled moon

On the precipice

Of belonging

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Gulf of America

Gulf of the Americas

love your neighbor as yourself

~Jeral Williams

Child mumbles

Child mumbles at the window with its mother.

After a few years the teller will be changed

But the fairytales will remain the same.

~Partha Sarkar

her only friend cat at neighbor’s window

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

the first magnolia opening his allergies

~Morag Elizabeth Humble

silent message

in front of cemetery

a tree renews its leaves

~Fatma Zohra Habis

 

 

Joyfully Wondrous: Send works that lean towards the numinous and often sublime
 

experiences of life and nature through a joyful and uplifting lens.

Morning of May 10, 2025

 

a word

o

p

e

n

s

shuts

~Vijay Prasad

one of those words

I have to slow down to spell

rhythm

~Jennifer Gurney

power outage

my mammalian

response

~Patrick Sweeney

dawn

continuing where I and Thou

left off

~Patrick Sweeney

in all

the crevices of my heart

sand

~Jennifer Gurney

blood moon

regretting

that argument

~Patricia Carragon

treating myself to the value of failure

~Sharon Ferrante

briefly wondering about the sunset shenanigans in the Shenango Valley

 
~Patrick Sweeney

another thing I can’t find this itch

 

~Sharon Ferrante

Stray cats gather on the playground for their weekly flea market.

~Martina Matijević

the leech sups with its gut

~Patrick Sweeney

t a r i f f    i c k 

~Sharon Ferrante

pudgy fingers in Chinese handcuffs

Newton's Third Law

~Patrick Sweeney

no poem today

—just an armadillo

digging a hole

~Sharon Ferrante

America’s decline

featuring

we the people

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

 

 

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