Morning of February 4, 2026

 

his cat doesn't care if he's an abject failure

 

~Patrick Sweeney




everyone knows what's wrong with everyone else's hair

~Patrick Sweeney




old

pond

a

frog

leaps

into

a

block

of

ice

~Patrick Sweeney




eye witnesses

multiple angles

of truth


~Christa Pandey




moon

illuminates your shadow

in fairy dust


~Sarah Mahina Calvello




comedy club

the recovering alcoholic's

dry wit


~John J. Dunphy




uphill walk

a down feather guides

me ahead

~Tejendra Sherchan




streetsweepers abiding by the order of duct tape

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer




crowdfunding the circle of crows


~Hifsa Ashraf




lawsuit the whereabouts of magpies


~Hifsa Ashraf

Afternoon of February 2, 2026

 

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




altostratus moon

step by step

into Fimbulwinter

~Joshua St. Claire




twilight walk home insecurity cameras

~Wendy Cobourne




passing through bushes

the smoke shadow

as it leaves me

~Jerome Berglund




Even if


Even if I do not want to,

AI will compel me

to forget my own entity.


~Partha Sarkar




deserted street

the pigeon returns

to the puddle

~Francoise Maurice




Minneapolis

bitterly cold wind

so much ice

~Marie Derley




kindness

feels like a dream when the worl
d

is so full of ice

~Jennifer Gurney




our guides to peace

a poet, a nurse and

barefoot monks in snow

 

~Jennifer Gurney



 

the world

is a witness

cellphone video

~Jennifer Gurney




loaded with truth camera


~Roberta Beach Jacobson




Microbes of the mind

passed on by someone

who does not love us.

~Jeffrey Taylor




city park

a squirrel reaches

for a handout

~Gareth Nurden




night train

lives pass by

in the blink of an eye

~Gareth Nurden




letting

the first mosquito go

not the second

~Hynek Koziol




The Bagman


shuffles by in tattered Nikes

pushing a rusty shopping cart

with one hand, a half empty

bottle in the other.

He is singing ( slightly off-key 

I notice ) " climb in " he says

" oh, most ethical one

let's have one more cup

before we go. "

~dan smith




work in progress

revising

my life

~M. R. Pelletier

 

 

 

Where to submit your work this month

 

tinywords

https://tinywords.com/submit/



Only Human Senryu

https://www.onlyhumansenryu.com/guidelines



Circle of Salt

http://circleofsaltmag.blogspot.com/



smols

https://smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com/



Horror Senryu Journal

https://horrorkujournal.blogspot.com/



Kingfisher Journal

https://kingfisherjournal.com/submissions/




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