Afternoon of July 11, 2023

junk mail

pigeon droppings

on the mailbox

~Sharon Ferrante

opening a can of soup I process my life

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

accepting denial

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

whispered wind

promises of a cool breeze

but only hot air

~Julie A. Dickson

We are all just

Making it up as we go

(In case no one told you)

~Jennifer Gurney

What sadist invented

Metal slides to sit in the sun

Waiting for bare legs

~Jennifer Gurney

Afternoon of July 10, 2023

I had big plans for today

To clean the house and pay the bills

But then I remembered –

I’m a writer

And the day claimed me

~Jennifer Gurney

Bluesky

Twitter Spill Spoutible

Facebook Notes Threads

Instagram TikTok Tumblr

Mastodon cohost reddit

 

Somewhere someone

will like this poem.

~Noah Berlatsky

beach stroll

salt sprinkles

on my ice cream

~Stephanie Zepherelli

ex-janitor

his retirement watch scrutinized

by the pawnbroker

~John J. Dunphy

Sagarmatha

an avalanche of climber litter

~JL Huffman

forgotten subscriptions the color of missing money

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

marine layer

sunset eaten up like

it never happened

~Kathy Watts

black sky red sun

someone else's

wildfire

~Kathy Watts

Technology

and I are not lovers

but, cousins

who might kiss

when no one's looking.

~Keith Snow

Afternoon of July 5, 2023

identity a petrol-puddle rainbow

~Kelly Moyer

night rain bottlecaps from the moon

~Kelly Moyer

one for me

 

another blackbird night  

spent walking streets amongst  

ghosts and sheets of rain  

~Tohm Bakelas

Water in the Basement

 

If you just leave it alone

it will go away

never.

It will never go away.

 

Stupid water.

~Noah Berlatsky

My neighbor’s radio

The soundtrack for my solo

Kitchen dance party

~Jennifer Gurney

leveling up

waves in the holy spirit

~Roberta Beach Jacobson

nightclub restroom

woman remains in her stall

after hearing gunshots

~John J. Dunphy

MY REALITY 3

tv is no good, laughter   

too painful—small spiders   

crawl the ceiling   

~Tohm Bakelas

time heals

jagged edges

my grudge

against seaglass

~Kelly Moyer

State of Mind

 

You

live within yourself,

incarcerated 

by debilitating forgetfulness.

 

You

can never again

be where I am.

~Suzanne S. Austin-Hill

A hefty young chief Potawatomie

Admitted "There is quite a lot of me.

When I get in my head 

to make Indian fry bread, 

My wife locks the pot up away from me."

~Janet Stotts

every 5 minutes

a brand new poem

rest a while, AI

~AJ Anwar

a new guideline to guidelines: AI

~Arvinder Kaur

spooning a crescent moon migraine

~Mariel Herbert

old-school misogyny detonating the yarnbomb

~Kelly Moyer

the dog yawns when i yawn leftover sun

~Mariel Herbert