The hours I spend
reading your poems, zen masters,
burn
with sacred fire.
~Morley Cacoethes
sending regrets
The Thinker
having
second thoughts
~Barrie Levine
bird
flies up halving the sky
~Tejendra Sherchan
x-ray
films all the bones outlasting me
~Barrie Levine
mistook
the poem for periodontal machine
~Noah Berlatsky
day
moon somewhere i become someone
~Vijay Prasad
fate
lines rechecking my apotelesm
~Arvinder Kaur
twilight
in the battlefield wind’s dirge
~Arvinder Kaur
now
empty the condemned convict's cell
~John J. Dunphy
toy
shovels
foretell the sand
children at play
~Elliot
Diamond
high-wind warning
the earthworm's parachute
full
of finch feathers
~Kelly Sauvage Moyer
Farm Fresh
Locking eyes
with the void,
I become nothing;
though, today,
I am a tuber,
ripped as I was
from solid ground,
that you can,
if you wish,
imagine
happy.
~Kelly Sauvage Moyer
vernal equinox
I take my coffee with
half
and half
~John J. Dunphy
being alone…
plaintive drip drip of the
dehumidifier
~David Cox
Gurgles of melting
snow and dead leaves from the church
where
we shadows lurk.
~Morley Cacoethes
how slow
the blooming of a peace lily
bedroom
argument
~Arvinder Kaur
evolutionary theory
chronic
illness
i embrace
my
adaptations
~Kelly Sauvage Moyer
Heterodox Haiku: Open for theme of roots
Reading thru March. Send up to 10 photo haiku/haiga or tanka art exploring theme of roots (figuratively, literally, loosely or closely). Ideally rectangular (not square) art, as we will be full paging these in 5x8 sizing. Appreciated if you have photos available separate from words, as will be eventually titling selections all w/same font and style for consistency! Email: thesmokingshow@yahoo.com.
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