By Françoise Maurice

wild grasses

the breath of the wind

In her light hair

Françoise Maurice

By Goran Lowie

abandoned teddy

his playfulness

imprisoned by time

Goran Lowie

By Mona Bedi

tsundoku—

the untold stories

on my bookshelf

Mona Bedi

*

 

winter loneliness

I gather the stars

for comfort

Mona Bedi

By Wai Mei Wong

almost spring

the bloom of plum blossoms

across the street


Wai Mei Wong

By Ellen Kom

new calendar

365 mantras

om on the wall


Ellen Kom

By Jennifer Gurney

When I hear our song

I smell the summer rain storm

From across the years

Jennifer Gurney

By Suzanne Leaf-Brock

swallowtail puddling—

mom’s fingertips

skim my cheek

Suzanne Leaf-Brock

By Chen-ou Liu

border checkpoint

the sound of snow geese

migrating

Chen-ou Liu

By JL Huffman

mating season

dead skunks stripe road edges

unhappy ending


JL Huffman

By Alvin B. Cruz

my echo

in an empty room

the way

loneliness

repeats itself

Alvin B. Cruz

By Meera Rehm

singing the fragments April showers

Meera Rehm

By Mirela Brailean

dried branch

the same gracefulness

of its shadow


Mirela Brailean

By James Penha

cold lake rain prattles

insistently on palm roofs

we will not be moved

James Penha

By Yasir Farooq

a friendship request the belated bloom

Yasir Farooq

*

 

a rose reblooms

the other raindrops

Yasir Farooq

By Maria Quernel

Beauty joins Chaos

Both of them standing

On the edge of forever.

Maria Quernel

By C.X.Turner

miles to go

before sleep . . .

insomnia

C.X.Turner

By Mike Fainzilber

captured

in a bottle

the sunshine

on the vines

Mike Fainzilber

*

 

the wind

and the butterfly

gliding on each other


Mike Fainzilber

By Hege Anita Jakobsen Lepri

snow moon

erasing the tracks

of the wolf


Hege Anita Jakobsen Lepri