Afternoon of March 24, 2024

buttercups

the sun has no name

for yellow

~Kelly Moyer




sun god will burst

and what remains is eternal winter.

~Fhen M.




looking up

the Eiffel Tower

blocks the sun

~Jennifer Gurney




cottontails the garden at a loss for herbs

~Debbie Strange




buttercream bunnies

some of us were meant

to learn the hard way

~Kelly Moyer




still in the fridge

the Easter egg with a shell

too pretty to peel

~John J. Dunphy




deckled edges

sailors know how to read

the shoreline

~Debbie Strange




adjusting

ovals to circles

tv test pattern

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




copyright d®ead

~Debbie Strange




eden

finding freedom in the fall

of butterflies

~Kelly Moyer




vanishing

on spring winds

S. A. D.

~Stephanie Zepherelli




spiritual psychology

i sprawl

upon the spirochete's couch

~Kelly Moyer




the seven wonders sightseers looking only at themselves

~Debbie Strange

 

 


 



Evening of March 22, 2024

blues on the bayou

a guitar weeps in the night,

earning nickels and dimes

~Arvilla Fee




paramedic

       sirens

       paramedic 

               sirens         

               sounding

      all

day long

~Tuyet Van Do




flip flops

longing to make their entrance—

winter laughs

~Jennifer Gurney




The Recipe of My Tribe


 

½ cup of OCD

2 heaping cups of sass

1 full stick of hug-it-out

a pinch of real kick-ass

¾ cup of therapy

1 cup of half-past-youth

5 tablespoons of loyalty

3 cups of brutal truth.

~Arvilla Fee




bamboo collapse

blocks our car on a road

not to be taken

~James Penha




earning

degrees in whatever

party animals

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




Get a Cat They Said

 

it will be fun they said,

except I’m only allowed to pet him

every other Thursday,

and now I need a new couch.

~Arvilla Fee




an old man sports a toothless grin,

grateful to be topside of the grass

~Arvilla Fee




World Water Day

With the wastage of nectar

By the unscrupulous poor...

Don't you protest against it?

Protest? Against the dead?

~Partha Sarkar




daredevil’s jump a waterfall of words

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




sinking feeling

after hitting send

*typo

~Jennifer Gurney




laughing

at your funeral today—

cognitive dissonance

~Jennifer Gurney