Afternoon of September 3, 2023


snow says goodbye to me

I am silent

I melt with

the snow

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

(Originally published in THE BIG WINDOWS REVIEW)




each time I strike a

match to light a candle

I remember

~Jennifer Gurney




Learned Advice


                         EXplore

               only the  PERImeter,

 and miss the inner    essENCE

               of it all.

~Suzanne S. Austin-Hill




No fleas in the morning

dormant ‘til sunny afternoon guess they slept in today

~Julie A. Dickson




Morning or night, cat sits vigil on my window sill

~Julie A. Dickson




If I had a time machine

I would stop you

from putting diesel in the gas tank.

~Noah Berlatsky




"a final word of advice"

he tells me

for the fourth time

~John J. Dunphy




the Barbie movie

such deep meaning

from molded plastic

~Jennifer Gurney




neighborhood crying

hand of anger

anger of the heart

weeping cities

^^ ^^ ^^

and these are birds

look over the heads of the war birds fly

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

(Originally published in Lothlorien Poetry Journal)




aluminum birds

even they come back

from warm countries home

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

(Originally published in divot)




This poem smells blue

| | |

The color of wrinkles in the sky

Black shapes in clear water

This verse will be picked up by crows in the morning

And they will be thrown from heaven

On icy concrete heart rocks

~

All in vain

.

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

(Originally published in Stone Poetry Journal)

Evening of August 29, 2023

 

two snails

if they race each other

it doesn’t show

~Daniel Birnbaum



the cockroach

what we think of each other

perhaps the same

~Daniel Birnbaum



the tangerine

perhaps the last to call me

from childhood

~Daniel Birnbaum



raindrops are spitting

on the book where I’m writing

this now-wet haiku

~Jennifer Gurney



a door that never opens

sealed forever

by a family of spiders

~Steve Van Allen



early morning quake

deep sea 7.4—

the cradle does rock

~James Penha



I write this poem

composed by my shower mind

wrapped in a towel

~Jennifer Gurney



Barbie movie

sex bomb goes off

only egos injured

~Adele Evershed



second summer

finding mildew

in all my cracks

~Adele Evershed



scathing review

I pretend my poetry

was written by AI

~Adele Evershed



counting on the spiritual procrastination of the good thief

~Patrick Sweeney



stillness even when there are no deer on the trail

~Patrick Sweeney



who I was when I first tasted a ginger snap

~Patrick Sweeney



the pain of passing petoskey stones

~Adele Evershed



resting my elbow again on the tiger's back

~Patrick Sweeney



she told me I should be searching for shovel-tusked mastodons instead of snow fleas

~Patrick Sweeney