Morning of April 11, 2025

 


skin tag you're it

~Eavonka Ettinger




cross words

filling in the blank

spaces

~Eavonka Ettinger




inner core

shape-shifting

planet Earth

~Eavonka Ettinger




a-e-i-o-u

and sometimes

why

~Barrie Levine




taking up space

in his rock collection

my brother’s baby teeth

~Barrie Levine




someone’s soul

in the meadow silence

becomes a bug

~Mile Lisica




I turn off the lights

to see the constellation

in the horse's eyes

~Mile Lisica



on a journey

the unknown memory

in warm coffee

~Mile Lisica




summer meadow

a girl and her dog

unleashed


~Wendy Cobourne




psych class

she listens closely

to her voices


~Wendy Cobourne




conch shell horn

first contact

from another universe

~Randy Brooks




outdoor theatre

leaves spiral through

intermission

~Randy Brooks




Just filthy

Enough to work

Freudian slip

~Sarah Mahina Calvello



winter wearing layers wrinkles

~Radhika De Silva




the loaded tumbrels of historical destiny

~Patrick Sweeney




don't expect an ovation if you see the blue veins in the blonde temple of the sun

~Patrick Sweeney




it's because you invited that nosey poet who kept asking everyone to point to their souls

~Patrick Sweeney

 


Afternoon of April 9, 2025

 

Live and Let DEI Anthology:

Submit one poem this month to Winning Writers

 

 

            at the door

            a quartet of gargoyles

            new neighbors

            ~Stephanie Zepherelli




            changing the world

            children turn a map

            upside down

            ~Stephanie Zepherelli




            final ascent

            the inconvenience

            of falling flat

            ~Stephanie Zepherelli




bones bones bones

the creaking bones

I still call mine

~Robert Epstein




how apropos

after cleaning the kitchen

sponge cake

~Robert Epstein




discipline

discipline

midnight

~Robert Epstein




afterlife

but I am such

a homebody

~Robert Epstein




grandpa navigates
 
market change

one meme stock at a time

~Douglas J. Lanzo




sand

in my slippers

I dream of the ocean

~Jiel Narvekar




counting my blessings …

grateful even

for the odd

~Kelly Sargent




roses on clearance

how men no longer

look me in the eye

~Kelly Sargent




after much thought

I RSVP Mars

. . . no thanks

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




The cat-surf laps

At the milk-bowl beach.

~V. Grout




spring brings new neighbors…

unpacking curiosities

~Sarah Mirabile-Blacker





at the playground

birds talk

children screech

~Sarah Mirabile-Blacker




crows at dusk

pirates

pilfering snacks

~Sarah Mirabile-Blacker

 

 

                                                  Darkly Beautiful & Joyfully Wondrous

Morning of April 6, 2025

 


diagnosis

an unanticipated

shift in the wind

~words and image Kelly Sauvage Moyer




Monday morning mood Ctrl+Alt+Del

~Maria Tosti




ember leaves

beneath the ice

still flames

~Gareth Nurden




all the ways to say

Hands Off

I’ve lost count

~Jennifer Gurney




An invitation from a morgue


An invitation from a grave

And I accept it

for my resurrection.

~Partha Sarkar




from behind

the stone wall

incoherence

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




starving plants

guzzle moonlight

empty calories

~Nick De Marino




fractals uncurl

skyward

on ancient arms

~Nick De Marino




on the sidewalk

a lizard overtakes me

and leads me ahead

~Tejendra Sherchan




Frosted sugar

On suspended ice—

Life, and afterlife.

~Laila Brahmbhatt




peace treaty

one with nothing left to give,

one with no urge to take

~M. R. Pelletier




Planting flowers

Suddenly my backyard

Is botanical

~Sarah Mahina Calvello




Surprising

Fondness for ghosts

Memory lane

~Sarah Mahina Calvello




throwing

shade on trade

guess who

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




deep

in the software

inedible bugs

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




ARE YOU THERE SPECTRUM?

 

Twosome concrete slabs

Regimen walloped by strike

Mutism deluge.

~Zoé Mahfouz




triptych


driving home

from a double shift

flat tire(d)



school bus(t)

dealer arrested while

copying homework



white trash(ed)

their klan robes now gray

from fiery cross smoke

~John J. Dunphy




fishing report

I ask the blue heron

what he’s biting on

~AJ Johnson




mattress sale

we pay our respects

to George and Abe

~AJ Johnson




piece work

the robot hands me

another missed weld

~AJ Johnson




our lives – nothing more

than yesterday’s newspapers

caught in a hedgerow

~Malcolm Highfield




my anger

nibbling time

from the edge of life

~Malcolm Highfield




pants optional

sunbathing

with the skinks

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer



 

dominion

the delusions

of bipedal mammals

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer



 

mimicking

the orbit of my pancreas

rogue stars

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer




art . . .

I crawl through the frame

to breathe

~Roberta Beach Jacobson