Afternoon of July 25, 2025

 

eggshell is reversible

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

careful, he takes his cloud formations seriously

~Patrick Sweeney

chaos in the streets now palpable our discontent

~dan smith

little bang theory

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

a cool breeze from the short-tempered

~Patrick Sweeney

heyday where are you now

~Keith Evetts

i watch my name walking away in another's mouth

~Vijay Prasad

garbage chute to the galaxy

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

he's over there, lecturing on the life cycle of a particular species of bamboo

~Patrick Sweeney

false teeth

in a ripe banana

making art

history

~Keith Evetts

midnight

the internet attracts

little black flies

~Keith Evetts

o god

far worlds of ice

await our robots

~Keith Evetts

nursing home

boyfriends from two different wars

my grandma, the cougar

~Jennifer Gurney

Sea bed mining

At last hairy hand of greed touches fathomless sea bed

ignoring the existence of divine beings of water kingdom.

~Partha Sarkar

 

When Land Becomes One with the Sky

pieces of earth rose to air

and became sky islands

where we all live now

away from each other

on small pieces of land

 

I look at the sky island

which was once my school

and another one

which was once my house

flying ever closer to space

~Alper Ghuchlu

data centers-

our thirst

our dessication

~dan smith

The light tries

To fall the right way

Just like people

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

steel sky

full of aluminum

butterflies

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

he sat on his knees and scooped

up water from the lake the birds

watched him and drank the silence

~Mykyta Ryzhykh

tail raised on mudstone

a dragonfly's

prehistoric longing

~Patrick Sweeney

canals of Mars

watchtowers scout the sea

as the first martian war

rages on

humans always the same

no matter where

~Alper Ghuchlu

a laid-back neurotic

making assiduous notes

in a one-room apartment

~Patrick Sweeney

all those gray-haired Yes fans

near-Earth Objects

shimmering

~Patrick Sweeney

66 years struggling to make ends meet

and she steps into a sinkhole

searching for a cat

~Patrick Sweeney

42 blackbirds singing

back end of a peacock celebrity

St Francis' statue

evidently much revered

by pigeons

many crows one testimony

a seagull snaffles

the last of my saveloy—

summer is ending

leaving me the autumn swallows

~Keith Evetts

 

Last day to submit: Failed Haiku

https://failedhaiku.com/submissions-guidelines/

 

 

Afternoon of July 21, 2025

 

 

 darkening skies the threat of stormtroopers

~John Hawkhead

her exteriority slackens into syntax

~Vijay Prasad

airing a question hangs in the noose

~John Hawkhead

unheated motel room his apologies frozen in place

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

quantum alphabet

child now recites

his HXKs

~John J. Dunphy

Despair

The to-do list keeps telling me

that I have done absolutely nothing.

~Noah Berlatsky

Perversion!

Perversion! That means you are far away

from the stars above

and the fireflies below.

~Partha Sarkar

at the beach

hydrogen-spewing

moon rocks

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

the epitome

of oval-ness

egg

~Jennifer Gurney

the spaces

where my soul breathes...

tranquility

~Jennifer Gurney

Picasso land

Angles of blue shadows

Everywhere you look

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

 

Afternoon of July 20, 2025

Our Merch: https://www.zazzle.com/store/five_fleas

 

the black and white of childhood

bedtime stories

we were not told

~Kelly Sargent

the tomatoes

stabbed in the garden

hailstorm

~Marie Derley

les tomates du jardin

attaquées à l’arme blanche

orage de grêlons

stubborn grief

a stream maneuvers down

through the boulders

~Tejendra Sherchan

unstitching

a golden gown

death's seamstress

~Robert Witmer

dreams clot

the bloodstream of time

fighting for peace

~Robert Witmer

twilight

in some hungry place

a crow's demented cry

~Robert Witmer

leverage

the new synonym

for extortion

~dan smith

Confession


How many deaths do you have every day?

Being shrewd, I have stopped counting.

~Partha Sarkar

sepia ghosts

from old albums peer

nameless faces

~Debarati Sen

No more hiding

A shift in my paradigm

Dust begins to clear

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

arriving home

sitting on the front fence

a burglar's crowbar

~Tuyet Van Do

i saw disjointed

broken parts in chaste corners

frozen images

~Scott C. Holstad

remorse

feeling the crunch

of a snail

~Melissa Dennison

the fear this journey

stirs in me is not really about

the guns

~Kim Goldberg

dreaming of a masquerade ball vendetta

~Sharon Ferrante

hospice we come and go

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

other poems will be written trembling

~Scott C. Holstad

waiting to slide down the wall insomnia

~Vishal Prabhu

twitching eyelids committing dream crimes

~Scott C. Holstad

revealing her third personality heat lightning

~Kelly Sargent

accommodation nothing unreasonable

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

fighting in this forest if only Robin Hood

~Sharon Ferrante

SLAVE

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~Scott C. Holstad

lit signboard

queuing for fresh

emojis

~Vishal Prabhu

Journals open for your submissions now:

Horror Senryu

horrorkujournal.blogspot.com/

(Thru July 25) Failed Haiku

https://failedhaiku.com/submissions-guidelines/

Art of Haiku

(U.S. residents only) https://artofhaiku.org/official-rules-english-2025/

Medusa’s Kitchen

http://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/p/placating-harridan.html

English-Speaking Union of Japan (ESUJ)

(Thru July 25) https://www.esuj.gr.jp/event/5_index_detail.php

Mad Swirl

https://madswirl.com/submissions/

Cattails

http://www.cattailsjournal.com/submissions.html

Cold Moon Journal

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2022/08/guidelines-for-contributors.html

dadakuku

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