By JL Huffman

butterfly bush awash with wings

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

evening shower

lemon light gilds the garden

petrichor

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

less traveled lane

Why did the kudzu

cross the road?

JL Huffman

senior living

rust and dent models

inside and out

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

my hip her heart

alternating illnesses

staying alive

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

unnatural glow

backlit mountain ridges

boros below

JL Huffman

snowbound day

chili heats

palate and soul

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

wood stove smoke

rises from the hollars

mountain man morn

JL Huffman

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last bright ember

buried in charcoal clouds

winter solstice

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

tom turkey

courts a field of hens

fantail display

JL Huffman

Update on Touchstone Award Nominations (2023)

Additional Cold Moon Journal nominations for the 2023 Touchstone Awards have been submitted to The Haiku Foundation (poems published July to mid-November 2023).

 

Congratulations to these 19 talented poets:

Bryan Rickert

Deborah Karl-Brandt

Dejan Ivanovic

Ingrid Baluchi

Janet Krauss

Jerome Berglund

JL Huffman

Joe Whitlow

M. R. Pelletier

Mariangela Canzi

Nicola Schaum

Priti Khullar

Roman Lyakhovetsky (invalidated, as he serves on the board)

Sébastien Revon

Steliana Cristina Voicu

Stephanie Zepherelli

Susan Burch

Timothy Daly

Vandana Parashar

Recap

Earlier this year, CMJ submitted (nine) nominations for individual poems published January to June 2023. 

Link to names of these nominees:

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2023/06/2023-touchstone-nominations.html

Going Forward

Editors may nominate up to 30 poems annually. Thus far we are at 28. The possibility exists for us to nominate two more poems published between now and the end of Decemeber. Any such announcement will be made here.

Good luck to all our nominees!

By JL Huffman

undressing

spent garden beds

fallow fall

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

gourd’s garish grin

macabre ceiling display

guest-room night light

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

new moon fog

ghost deer dart

JL Huffman

*

 

murder of crow’s feet

unlaughable lines

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

a white feather

dances on the wind

farewell words

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

landscape blight

howl of the junkyard dog

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

yellow finches

flock the feeder

joy takes wing

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

contrail

em

dash

punctuates

the

sky

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

morning mist

Sandburg’s pale cat

paws the windshield

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

char cloth sky

ablaze with star sparks

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

mating season

dead skunks stripe road edges

unhappy ending


JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

frost-tipped maples

first scarlet burst

JL Huffman

By JL Huffman

crows caw calling

crack open the dawn

stillness shattered

JL Huffman