Morning of June 9, 2025

 

 

surface spray

my summer excitement

washing away

~Melissa Dennison

discord nothing rhymes with orange

~dan smith

oligarchy as if capitalism wasn't hard enough

~dan smith

the old reprobate-

orders a double

gets two middle fingers

~dan smith

twilight time-

the gods reveal themselves

on silver platters

~dan smith

space X our little portion off limits to the rest of the galaxy

~dan smith

howl of the last dog the zookeeper pauses

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

zombie chess

errant finger makes

an illegal move

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

rabid fox

the woods no longer

inviting

~David C. Kopaska-Merkel

end of summer

a black vulture circling in the clouds

of Saturn

~Joshua St. Claire

beach day the schlepping

~Joshua St. Claire

corporate headquarters

the just so

of each and every blind

~Joshua St. Claire

late sunset…

watering the garden again

close to midnight

~Maya Daneva

once in a while an open tin in the ocean

~Maya Daneva

Time

Travel could

right wrongs

alter realities,

and exponentially

Increase my opportunities

to say space time continuum.

~Keith Snow

 

 

 

Evening of June 5, 2025

 

anxiously processing the weather conditions

on the I-80 corridor

and I don't even drive

~Patrick Sweeney

so those villagers

gathered sharp tools?

yeah? turn back...

~Richard Magahiz

still chewing

upthrust ridgelines with

diamond tooth scoops

~Richard Magahiz

Equanimity Ltd.

In time, easy elasticity

becomes brittle stress

and that is just Nature.

Creatures should be

content to feel sun,

be caught in rain;

however, if SpaceX

space junk falls

on your head, feel

free to complain.

~Allan Lake

the intern speaks

breaks the hush

in the boardroom

~Jiel Narvekar

hindsight

twenty twenty

regrets

~Jennifer Gurney

shell shocked

by the ignorance

among us

~Jennifer Gurney

I still have

your ratty old sneakers

in the garage

~Jennifer Gurney

While Staying In My Grandson’s Room, I’ve Learned to Settle for…

less risky chaos;

pile of clothes thrown on a chair,

rather than on floor.

~Suzanne S. Austin-Hill

pothos

how I yearn

to propagate

~B. L. Bruce

beep beep beep a truck I cannot see backs up

~M. R. Pelletier

all this time i watched the news waiting for the taco bell to ring

~Tom Blessing

I'm a buffalo nickel in a cashless society

~Patrick Sweeney

I think the sign said: Please don't ask the calligrapher what anything means

~Patrick Sweeney

love a fifteen-month hard drug

~Alvaro Carrasquel Gomez

infatuation playing Russian roulette again

~Alvaro Carrasquel Gomez

my slow recovery from the waiter's description of the meat falling off the bone

~Patrick Sweeney

sundown a verb undoes itself

~Vijay Prasad

boron high altar solid smoke bricks

~Richard Magahiz

pearls the ocean depths already plundered

~Joanna Ashwell

forever (almost) never ever is

~Joseph P. Wechselberger

Brahma circumnavigating the trash can as a raccoon

~Patrick Sweeney

new car

forest essence

swaying

~Gareth Nurden

puddles

where horses roamed

sinking suns

~Gareth Nurden

lucid streetlights

blood in the veins

of a small town vista

~Gareth Nurden

blowing sahara sand

from a picnic table

margarita breath

~Gareth Nurden

donating my life

I give my alma mater

all my contributor's copies

~John J. Dunphy

“The past catches up”

the migrant says,

sobbing

~Alvaro Carrasquel Gomez

minimum wage

every task

longer than the last

~Joanna Ashwell

fairy garden

the corner patch

out of time

~Joanna Ashwell

a variety of smells

surrounds me

full bus

~Joseph P. Wechselberger

button box

searching

for the right one

~Joseph P. Wechselberger

second-hand store

a step above

diminished expectations

~M. R. Pelletier

entrepreneurship

doing new things

with old means

~M. R. Pelletier

 

 

Afternoon of May 31, 2025

 

Blueprint

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

noises in the loft

something coming loose

in my peace of mind

~John Hawkhead

reading palms

each line leads

nowhere

~John Hawkhead

shaking petals

a breeze gentle enough

to share my pain


~Fatma Zohra Habis

quantum physics exam

all my answers

keep changing

~John J. Dunphy

Big Bang Theory

O'Neddy

Bouzingo

~dan smith

caw caw boogie-

it's murder out here

for Bird fanciers

~dan smith

In Sun They All Pass

~Michael Lee Johnson

government drones

the conspiracy theories

of birds

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

executive order ~

the propagation of unblinking eyes

and dorsolateral prefrontal lesions

~Kelly Sauvage Moyer

To-Do List

Less and less

and eventually

maybe

nothing at all.

~Scott F. Parker

 

 

Afternoon of May 27, 2025

 

sundown a verb leaps into

the dark

~Vijay Prasad

humbling the climbers Mt. Everest

~Tejendra Sherchan

no more lies, I promise

cross fingers –

all lies, are lies no more

~Allen David Simon

Want to reach your destination?

Are you confused by thinking

of reaching your destination

With straight simple nectar?

Then why don't you follow a snake?

~Partha Sarkar

caregiver burnout

have you taken your pills

have you taken your pills

here are your pills

take them

now

~Belinda Behne

AI bracketology

one click away

from winning

~Douglas J. Lanzo

preening politicians

water-proofing goslings

with outsized necks

~Douglas J. Lanzo

elves, trolls and goblins

shearwater cries

through craggy sea cliffs

~Douglas J. Lanzo

peace talks

i fold my opinion

into origami cranes

~Mona Bedi

Alzheimer’s missing the mum she was

~Mona Bedi

Clouds drift over

an abandoned house

unaware it's lost

~Laila Brahmbhatt

Summer snowstorm

dandelion wishes

granted

~Laila Brahmbhatt

Cluster of white smoke

from the chimney,

old family album

~Laila Brahmbhatt

false shamrock

my tribute poems

get rejected

~Jackie Chou

leaning toward blue

no matter what

the shakuhachi

~Jackie Chou

museum of uranus opens this friday

don’t forget your winter coats

please

~Alper Ghuchlu