Morning of June 8, 2026

 

Still Holding on

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Life in stitches she remembers her purse

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Sneaking chocolate cake in a thunderstorm emotions abandoned
 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Leaves whirling down the rabbit hole along with my worries

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

the night curled up and cut its veins

heaven did not notice anything

only the cats turned over to the other side in a dream

the magic of childhood is over
 

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

bite my ear like salvador dali

drown me in a landscape painting

i flower flower 

i smoke smoke

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

Poem Ending with a Line by Pindar



Check your spelling, 

or try without quotes:

“stormfoot chariot”


~Joseph Tate

Corners of Unmade Beds 

He is his said of a was and more going to be, being of an unmade what of his mind, 

as he speaks in the middle of the night is the most his heart can give, 

for the in and the out of someone’s mind.

~John Vlachos

famous last words

my parents on a road trip

nearly there

~Jennifer Gurney

my 

least favorite insect 

thwack

~Jennifer Gurney

after the wind

bird-nest hair

~Albert Schlaht

a sneeze

having gotten away from him

fleeing pigeons

~Albert Schlaht

he takes

his eggs hard-boiled

the slouching detective

~Albert Schlaht

more and more each day

I'm less and less afraid

of little green men

~Patrick Sweeney

he's an iridescent fly away

from another entomological disquisition

~Patrick Sweeney

If it is required 

If it is required, you may get defeated. 

~ Partha Sarkar

the crayon left in the car seat 

turned into a celestial blue puddle 

~Patrick Sweeney

twenty times a day 

I want to WD-40

my neighbor's screen door

~Patrick Sweeney

habitable planets

in our galaxy

I am the landlord of five

~Tejendra Sherchan 

pretending to be someone who was pretending to be someone 

until mom let the green parakeets out of their cage

~Patrick Sweeney

she thinks the crickets are talking about the moon

~Patrick Sweeney

'Eternal rest' 

always sounded

good to her

~Patrick Sweeney

as luck

would have it

brown recluse

~Tom Bierovic

crescent moon

she asks to see the ring

in better light

~Tom Bierovic

baggage check

the backward glance

she didn’t give 

~Tom Bierovic

Always open for magickal poetry submissions: Circle of Salt

https://circleofsaltmag.blogspot.com

Always open for submissions: The Other Bunny

https://theotherbunny.blog/about/

Open for submissions in July: Frogpond

https://www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond/submissions.html

 

Afternoon of July 6, 2026

    

The Wonderful Sentence came from the never-happen house, the almost 

glance, the experimenting smile that won’t let go, even if it hurts and 

wounds the poem, hardly written a moment ago.

~John Vlachos

mushrooms

moonlit incantations

within the rain

~Joanna Ashwell

sunrise 

crickets continue singing 

in the cornfield 

~Tejendra Sherchan 

class reunion

everyone

sends their clone

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

dust under the bed

transition from state |Present

to state |Absent

I lie down on the bed

with the cat I don't have

~Marie Derley

Retribution

When God

hears her

ask why

horn of

plenty is

so loud.

~Chad Parenteau

You know you are a real poet

when you would rather pay bills

than write a poem.

~Noah Berlatsky

Cousin Papamanolis

Has seventy dogs (it is said)

And cats too numerous to count

He's a beekeeper and lives alone

Save for all the animals

Cousin Papamanolis used to be a priest

His gentle smile and weather beaten face

Bare witness to no fall from grace

He's a friend and distant relative

In all ways he is superlative

~Olinda Ninolakis

Street strawberries 

Wrong moment, wrong road

Writing your path 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Chairs 

Chairs stacked. 

Sitting people, a makeshift person of illusions;

a beside you friend dressed in a remarkable imagination; 

so much passion in so little living doesn’t of what matters should in

the beside, should in the you to be supposing chairs have shadows. 

~John Vlachos

complaint box

my government receives

41,000

~Tejendra Sherchan

in the shower me and the spider

~Bernadette O'Reilly  

salad greens

accidentally eating

my pet ant

~Ruth Holzer

a long stretch

with nothing happening

my plane at the gate

~Ruth Holzer

anger management--

circling the bully 

a whisper of butterflies 

~Wendy Cobourne

Second Amendment vs. FIFA



A well regulated Cup, being necessary to the security of a sports tyrant,

the right of the people to keep and bear Baloguns, shall not be infringed.


~ Nicholas De Marino

back in my skin every grain of sand an earthquake

~Richard Magahiz

the age of the toothless sightless mouth

~Richard Magahiz

Afternoon of July 3, 2026

 

https://sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/submission-guidelines

A THIRD OPTION

We're scared of life,

we're scared of death,

and despite all of god's 

creations he forgot to

offer us a third option.

~Stephen Philip Druce

evening news

the way 

things aren't
 

~M. R. Pelletier 

clear-cut

the price of things

not worth the cost
 

~M. R. Pelletier 

an ant

in my shadow

scurries to find its shadow

~Noah Berlatsky

no diet will help

I'm weighted down by

a heavy heart

~John J. Dunphy

this urgent need
 
for more mass-produced plastic

war escalation

~Joshua St. Claire

shattered skylight all my broken dreams


~Mona Bedi

birthright to call this land your home

~Kimberly Kuchar

A has been moment deprived of itself. 

~John Vlachos

a white butterfly 

on the pool manager's

big wet toe

~Patrick Sweeney

below the radar

in the Reflecting Pool . . .

creature from the black lagoon

~Barrie Levine

waiting room . . .

where People magazines gather

for years

~Barrie Levine

he could see how someone would end up

living in a garage apartment with 60 cats
 

~Patrick Sweeney

it turns out I can't use those super helical cloud wisps anywhere near the Potomac

and nobody sitting near me on the city bus wants to know why

~Patrick Sweeney

assassination the dow hits record highs of inequality

~Bruce H. Feingold

end of the road waving to the invisible man Waymo

~Bruce H. Feingold

I fold the sky into a small apology.

~Manasa Reddy Chichili

A letter arrives without any words.

~Manasa Reddy Chichili

If truth be told,

my appetite is simply 

not as robust

as it was 

before they began

installing sticky zippers

into the spicy salmon roll.

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

My husband 

contends

that my yarn stash

is a rat’s nest,

but I’ve only

been bit

while tenderly

stroking his hair.

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

I'm the goat-faced poet ringing his honorable mention bell

~Patrick Sweeney

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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