Morning of January 6, 2025

  Open for submissions again:  https://horrorkujournal.blogspot.com

 

critical

mass

ive

gather

ed to

gether

~Bob Carlton

toy shovels

in Zen gardens

buried moons

~Elliot Diamond

opening the new year

like an easy-to-peel clementine

January

~Jennifer Gurney

re-frig-er-a-tor / winter chill is on its way / please do not unplug

~Charles A. Perrone

after the break-up

sorting through unerased

digital remnants

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

death stuck under the nails

and took away the fingers

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

pigeon cities

postcards

from the war

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

Tequila sipping

Dreaming of the moment

When things seem right

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

It was a lie

The cards are on the table

Unmasking

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

not yet

going over the edge

borderline

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

Elementary Particulars


photons and protons

gluons and muons

bosons and so ons

~Bob Carlton

I don't know how much poems cost

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

on a frozen pond

geese that chose not to migrate

having second thoughts

~John H. Dromey

office toasty warm

time to butter up the boss

and ask for a raise

~John H. Dromey

the prison

and my world

I see no difference

~Tejendra Sherchan

 

 

Afternoon of January 3, 2025

it's not the New Year until someone starts talking about the end of the world

~Patrick Sweeney

Clue Map

maiden voyage of a monarch chrysalis

flagship's horn echoing

across the bay

maiden voyage of a monarch chrysalis

                                    childhood dreams

                                    coming alive

maiden voyage of a monarch chrysalis

                                                                    one more sign

                                                                    to rebuild my faith

~Roman Lyakhovetsky

tranquil clouds passing

in my heart

a doubt

~Noah Berlatsky

just me and the wind

the constant chime

of nevermore

~Joanna Ashwell

dirty snow

& the complications

of Spider Solitaire

~Patrick Sweeney

discard old skin

emerge from chrysalis

perpetual change

~Olinda Ninolakis

village fair

a doll's dress

catches briar

~Debarati Sen

in my own analog universe

straight through

Abbey Road

~Patrick Sweeney

in the city

a deserted house

gripping nostalgia

~Tejendra Sherchan

bro.ken, vi.vid dreams

 

transparent glue

belongs to you

 

seamless repair

mine to declare

~Suzanne S. Austin-Hill

fairy tale

I eat the wolf

that ate grandma

~M. R. Pelletier

housekeeping carts

long-term tenants air out

at the curb

~M. R. Pelletier

headphones

I help a loudmouth mind

his own business

~M. R. Pelletier

civilization

a well paved road

to self-destruction

~M. R. Pelletier

this mish-mash life I like to call eclectic

~dan smith

if he stubs his toe today, he'll be checking for gangrene in the morning

~Patrick Sweeney

 

 

will there be a body politic when our brains/minds get uploaded

~dan smith