Afternoon of January 10, 2025

new year’s eve

time to start last year’s

resolutions

~Sharon Ferrante

war news the creeping kudzu

~John Pappas

no matter what I write indifferent winter

~John Pappas

year’s end

a letter marked

return to sender

~John Pappas

the calm

before the

bam

~Jennifer Gurney

loss for words

watching your beauty up close

ai generated

~Jiel Narvekar

rewilded garden

in my dreams

I am the butterfly

~Rashmi VeSa

my puppy

meets friends —

flea exchange

~Tomislav Maretic

farewell —

remembering my first day

at work

~Debarati Sen

I remember this bistro

and the handsome man

on the mandolin

we ate escargot—

wrote our death poem

in the rain

~Sharon Ferrante

seven years

a broken spider

on the mirror

~Sharon Ferrante

though nevermore

still you carve my name

on the white whale

~Sharon Ferrante

sleepwalking

from planet to planet

again you don’t know

where you left

my double moons

~Sharon Ferrante

hiss and tell the Year of the Snake

~Rashmi VeSa

Afternoon of January 9, 2025

2025

and they thought we'd have

jet packs and flying cars

~Melissa Dennison

he noted the absence of snoods in the zeitgeist

~Patrick Sweeney

he'd spring impossible math problems on you

and always in front of someone

you secretly loved

~Patrick Sweeney

blue-eyed gaze

of an orange cat

is that the face

of one who hunts

for birds and mice

~Jackie Chou

'Shouting indistinctly' in the old war movie, a guy from the neighborhood

~Patrick Sweeney

underground railroad

a Mississippi river town

no one knows

~Randy Brooks

at the top of the stairs

out of mother’s closet

a prom dress

~Randy Brooks

Piece In The Valley

here a gun

there a gun

everywhere

a gun gun

~dan smith

It’s funny

What you remember

Under a vast sky

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Late night,

I look up

to greet

the self-loathing

I was hoping

to save

for tomorrow.

~Noah Berlatsky

angry

origami cranes

paper cuts

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

high winds

a dozen ravens

hold the maple down

~Tom Blessing

a murder of crows

the tree pretending

it's dead

~Patricia Carragon

icy pavements

resolutions

just slipping away

~Melissa Dennison

alley

in front of his cardboard box

a welcome mat

~John J. Dunphy

The Zen of Old Timers

breaking pots

fleeting thoughts

perfecting non-attachment

~dan smith

winter seclusion, when there's no sugar bowl to break

~Patrick Sweeney

winter horsefly, go on with your bad self

~Patrick Sweeney

another hyperventilating method actor on channel 5

~Patrick Sweeney

New Year's Day

unmasking the old year

with the new one

~Patricia Carragon

no red envelopes

given or received

by relatives

are we losing face

this new snake year

~Jackie Chou

 

 

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Morning of January 6, 2025

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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