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Afternoon of August 11, 2024

 

 

the comfort

of this island of one

sultry summer

~Mona Bedi




rocking the empty cradle a refugee’s blank eyes

~Mona Bedi




unfinished poem the night turns into a raven

~Mona Bedi




all the sad poets

scratching their way

toward the realization

that they've already arrived

home

in their notebooks

~Scott F. Parker




early morning at my desk

with enough coffee for now

returning myself

to myself

the only way i know how

~Scott F. Parker




final exam


if consciousness

is the cage

to which the only key

is consciousness


solve for

consciousness

solve

for yourself

~Scott F. Parker




ancestral home

granny’s hairpin

opens the door

~R. Suresh Babu




evolution can be seen as a ladder

unfortunately

some choose to climb down


flock of grey people

waiting room at the Hospital Heart Center

~Steve Van Allen




no shooting stars...

my wishes

go back immediately

~Nicoletta Ignatti




Dolls

inflatable hot air balloons

They long to fly very high

but bitten by mosquitoes

they sag

~Nicoletta Ignatti




Fair is foul, and foul is fair”


'Fair is foul, and foul is fair

Hover through the fog and filthy air'

Come nearer the wanderings of the Weird Sisters.


The curtain-An eclipse in the air.



protests here. Protests yonder.


(guided or diverted?)


The eagle: It does not matter

whether the womb gropes to a perfect abode of peace.

~Partha Sarka




sleeping in . . .

one career stumble closer

to packing up

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




under

lap cat

laptop

~Roberta Beach Jacobson




Five years, cat,

and I have never hurt you.

Could you sit on my lap now?

~Noah Berlatsky

 

 


 

 

 

 

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Afternoon of September 7, 2024

Critique


I don’t think you should end a poem with

My life has changed.”

~Noah Berlatsky




You don’t think about what you say.

I don’t say what I think.

The perfect marriage.

~Nolcha Fox




purple flowers

all over a pine forest

oblivious wife

~Tejendra Sherchan




the dead are still here

plants overwatered, underwatered, forgotten

~Steve Van Allen




Give light, Sun



What to do? How to walk steadily?

Do not know the blunt skeletons

And very often get morbid.

I come across them and get sad

But I do not put forward my hand

Rather ask the Sun to come out of the clouds

And give them light so that

They can stand erect and walk.

~Partha Sarkar





The great struggle of writing

is to see the truth

in your bank account.

~Noah Berlatsky




The Net Equivalent


of standing

in the kitchen

wondering why

u walked

in there

is going to Google

but forgetting

what you were

planning to search for

~Keith Snow




falling in love with the transplant surgeon

she whispers, "take my hand"

~Morgan Ellington




night duty

the hushed whisper

from behind

~Bidyut Prabha Gantayat




stuck in traffic

a billboard promises

relief

~Nalini Shetty




autocorrect

my opinion reshaped

without consent

~Nalini Shetty




two-factor authentication

proving

I still exist

~Nalini Shetty




dystopian dreams—

the future

they warned us about

~Nalini Shetty




mono no aware


new moon

or noon awe

no more now

~Scott F. Parker




university


yes

uni

verse

i yes

visit

yes

~Scott F. Parker




unsolicited advice to self


pay attention

to what you're paying attention

to

~Scott F. Parker

 

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Morning of May 8, 2024


tornadoes in a rain forest

hurricanes in a desert

murky muki

~dan smith




this isa

sorta true poem

about art where

it comes from

what it's for


nothing

i can answer

in under two decades

apparent

ly

~Scott F. Parker




Children's Games

             

            Vanilla or Chocolate?

            Chocolate or Strawberryy?

            I don't want any of these.

            I want Caramel which is never offered.


            It's been a life-long habit--

            always wanting to reframe

            the problem, the issues, the choices,

            whatever.................

~Karen Klein




   o u 

s        p

in      us 

     it

~dan smith




hard-won fortune

pissing against the pub wall

an errant heir

~Mike Gallagher




Poe, a tree!



There! Look!

Behind you!

To the left and to the right!

Ahead and above!

Inward and beyond!

~Scott F. Parker




cemetery wind

a lifetime of wishes

blown away

~Mona Bedi




The early bird

gets the senior spaghetti special

at Luigi’s, 4 PM sharp.

~Nolcha Fox




lying here

wondering whether

it's the outer thigh

looking up

or the inner thigh

looking down

I'm feeling

it really doesn't matter

now that we've reached

a certain age

~Mike Gallagher




dancer pigeonholed

as too old

bitter lemons

~Karen Klein




it's raining

in the poem

about rain

and the

one

about that

too

~Scott F. Parker




northbound geese

a neon open sign

flickers

~Mariel Herbert




first to flip the switch / next to absorb the colors / neon light special

~Charles A. Perrone




all those languages we do not know for a start birdsong

~Mike Gallagher




past the life we led before we led our lives

~Mona Bedi




Dusk falls, new moonlight, stars, planets and hope arise.

~Keith Snow




note from the mass grave

thankfully

we were not the killers

~Mike Fainzilber