Morning of June 4, 2026

 

And?

~dan smith 

war games

the AI 

is our Captain 

~M. R. Pelletier 

away from home

can I find different poetry?

alas, I carry the same sack

~Noah Berlatsky

Now that the poetry

reading is over, I can

go & get a haircut.

~Mark Young

many promises broken yet we vote

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

A person gets up early

to cast a vote

then has to return to bed

to have a good day. 

~Partha Sarkar

Turntable jazz

Wrapping around the night 

Satin silk

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

silence I bite my mother tongue

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

 

 

Afternoon of June 2, 2026

 

Open through June: Half Day Moon Journal

https://www.josephsalvatoreaversano.com/hdmj-submission-guidelines

 

 

Big Bang Theory:

popcorn blows the lid

off the pot

~Barrie Levine

justice just us

~John J. Dunphy

unpredictable

hopping

history

~Pegah Rahmati Nezhad

          A

JUST    MOUNTAIN

This is

This is not

This is not a

This is not a mole

This is not a molehill

~Peter Jastermsky

sting operation

the mosquitoes

act with impunity


~Bonnie J. Scherer

pummeled by wind-borne objects

I ride the all-weather deck

to kingdom come


~Bonnie J. Scherer

too tired

to hate you

hoverfly

~Joshua St. Claire

my iPhone suggests

a moon emoji

summer solstice

~Joshua St. Claire

 

 

quantum effects become significant boardroom


~Joshua St. Claire

 

behind the plate glass window verbless world


~Joshua St. Claire

all that remains of somewhere contrails

~Joshua St. Claire

murky dusk the raven tickling the demons within 

~Hifsa Ashraf  

night terror the strobe lights puzzling my aura 

~Hifsa Ashraf

winter coughs spreading urban foxes 

~John Hawkhead

 

Ψ crows’ feet casting runes in snow Ψ   

~John Hawkhead

paper scraps—

one corner earmarked

~Elliot Diamond

banana, weep --

you, the work

of transcendence

~Richard Magahiz 

feather 

over a gutter stream 

trying to keep dry

~Tejendra Sherchan 

 

 

 

Open for submissions this month: Prune Juice

https://prunejuicesenryu.com/submissions/

Open all of June: Kokako Journal

https://kokako10.wordpress.com/submissions/

 

that feeling

in the first part of a good book

when the characters become your friends

~Jennifer Gurney

light but love revealed

darkness but love lost

constant birth and death

a universe

~dan smith

The Memory of Africa 

Baobab trees

on the veld - the memory 

of Africa 

elephants' 

encyclopedic 

memories 

linking trunks 

bridging the divide

we're all Africans

~Olinda Ninolakis

Dallas, Texas

a busy avenue…

the colorblind

tarantula

does not cross at the light

~Sherri J Moye-Dombrosky

after that bit about the Equator and the imaginary line 

I figured the rest was hooey, too

~Patrick Sweeney

please tell me you're not still searching for Shambala

~Patrick Sweeney

the nature poet goes to the edge of the porch

and back again

~Patrick Sweeney

she wasn't the first person to suggest I put things in alphabetical order

~Patrick Sweeney

 

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Open for submissions: Haiku Girl Summer

https://www.haikugirlsummer.com/submission-information/

Afternoon of May 28, 2026

 

https://sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/contests

in an alternate universe

I imagine that this

is an alternate universe

~Noah Berlatsky

it began with the pearl-blue sheep's eye in biology

and the war we thought we had to fight

~Patrick Sweeney

preliminary findings that suggest 

he may have been radicalized by love

~Patrick Sweeney

half asleep

reciting a 2,000-year-old prayer

~Patrick Sweeney

New moon 

Unfinished but magical

I want to stay

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Crack of dawn

Crows peel off the road

Before us

~Tracey Foster

every window open

the rusted creak of my neighbor's

mailbox 

~Patrick Sweeney

his teachers said: he pays attention to all the wrong things

~Patrick Sweeney

secretly, he believed that every dandelion wish would come true

~Patrick Sweeney

that childhood light of a summer Saturday morning

when everyone was alive

~Patrick Sweeney

The Poet's Lament

no one is buying

my soul

~Noah Berlatsky

A Mature Poem

I want to be pissed off at the world,

but maybe I’m just pissed off at myself...

~Michael T. Smith

Tattered gloves in May

a waving shrub

hides the gardner 

~Mark Lawlor

outgrowing myself 

nothing left undone 

this time around

~Stephanie Zepherelli 

70 years old

slow dancing 

for the first time 

~Stephanie Zepherelli 

a disjointed life 

putting bones back 

where they belong 

~Stephanie Zepherelli 

walking me home 

a perfect fit 

enchanted shoes

~Stephanie Zepherelli 

And This

And this, all about the finished definition of round words, oval words, to words replying 

to other words for words sake that must have notion of tomorrow finding jackals in

commas and hyenas in the answers of today.

~John Vlachos

edge effect—

cougar tracks

between subdivisions

~Thomas L. Vaultonburg

church parking lot—

the hearse

beside the bounce house

~Thomas L. Vaultonburg

Just like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, 

we need to be aware 

of what is in plain sight - 

otherwise misguided trust

will see us devoured whole. 

~Joanne Macias

election gala

all

you can eat

~Soumya Mukherjee

the lake at dusk

someone needs to

answer that duck

~Ian Willey

echo chambers of Congress

~Ian Willey