Susan Burch

birdfeedercam 

only the rain 

comes to visit

—Susan Burch

the cardinal agrees talk is cheep

—Susan Burch

giving birth 

another pink flower 

in the flowerbed

—Susan Burch

 

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empty nest 

no more monkeys 

jumping on the bed

—Susan Burch

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free at last rites

—Susan Burch

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how you rub me

the wrong way

Brillo pad

—Susan Burch

bluebells

hanging low

for a while

—Susan Burch

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 divorce papers losing my breath

—Susan Burch

Susan Burch (from 2024)

doom scrolling what now

—Susan Burch

Susan Burch

sticking your finger

in a wall socket –

how you keep

testing me

to see if I really love you

Susan Burch

Susan Burch

sticking your finger

in a wall socket –

how you keep

testing me

to see if I really love you

Susan Burch

Susan Burch

roundabout we get through it

Susan Burch

peacock brooch

when did I stop

feeling pretty

Susan Burch

More Touchstone Award Nominations (2024)

Congratulations to these talented Cold Moon Journal poets for their 2024 Touchstone Award nominations:

Biswajit Mishra

Stacy Taylor

Bipasha Majumder (De)

Bryan Rickert

Sharon Ferrante

Mark Hendrickson

Jerome Berglund

j rap

Sharon Martina

Rita Melissano

Alvin B. Cruz

Scott F. Parker

Xiaoou Chen

Jay Friedenberg

Susan Burch

Alaka Y

Mohua Maulik

Wendy Cobourne

Adrian Bouter

Nominations for the 2025 Pushcart Prize (Poetry)

 

 

Mar 26:

periodic table

the stars that flow

through us

Eugeniusz Zacharski

Apr 5:

closed clinic

another choice

terminated

Scott Wiggerman

Apr 9:

gentle dawn ...

the haiku remains

unfinished

Samo Kreutz

Apr 22:

losing the path

deep in the forest

I find myself

deep in the forest

losing myself

I find the path

losing the path

I find myself

deep in the forest

Belinda Behne

Oct 6:

long weekend

the news comes

on a friday

Jerome Berglund

Oct 12:

fake profile —

why would anyone

want to be me

Susan Burch

 

Big congratulations to our six Pushcart nominees!

Nominations for the Touchstone Awards are underway, so please remain patient. Uploading the data for 30 poems is taking considerable time and effort. It's a lengthy process, but the Touchstone announcement will be posted at the journal once everything is finished.

Susan Burch

fake profile —

why would anyone

want to be me

Susan Burch

getting under peoples’ skins poli(tics

Susan Burch

a thunderstorm stuck in my car

Susan Burch

Susan Burch

second opinion

making my husband

smell the milk

Susan Burch

Susan Burch

nudist my mascara streaking

Susan Burch

Susan Burch

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racing the tornado not winn

Susan Burch

Susan Burch

you never know

when it’ll be —

last kiss

Susan Burch

power outage

back to the beginning

of the cosmos

Susan Burch

Susan Burch

city co-op garden –

not even my own

empire of dirt

Susan Burch

horrible day –

my haiku

grow fangs

Susan Burch

Susan Burch

pollen counting the ways you hate me

Susan Burch

Susan Burch

refugee moon

my heart in a kingdom

far far away

Susan Burch

Susan Burch

Like the Truman Show, maybe people in heaven are watching shows of us.

how everyone loves

an underdog -

surely someone

up there

is rooting for me

Susan Burch