By Susan Burch

you never know

when it’ll be —

last kiss

Susan Burch

power outage

back to the beginning

of the cosmos

Susan Burch

By Mark Gilbert

mayfly

in June

a life

cut short

Mark Gilbert

scarecrow

smiling through

the hurricane

Mark Gilbert

By Julianne Carlile

how stunning to see

in the bright white clean birdbath

five baby bluebirds

Julianne Carlile

By Refika Dedić

memory

between the cherry trees

the invisible guest

Refika Dedić

under the sky

between flowers

only silence

Refika Dedić

By Neena Singh

sunflowers

still face the sun...

war zone

Neena Singh

By Barrie Levine

wheeled away

to his private room

dad and his stories

Barrie Levine

By Bryan Rickert

another mass shooting stars

Bryan Rickert

continental

   drift

  the

    ragged

  edge

       you

   left

     behind

Bryan Rickert

 

 

spring rain

the slow sex

of turtles

Bryan Rickert

grackle vocabulary in translation the spring wind

Bryan Rickert

By Tsanka Shishkova

getting older … but the wind of spring

Tsanka Shishkova

 

 

antique shop

a lady recalls the fashion

of her youth

Tsanka Shishkova

 

 

 long list

of charming mistakes

her diary

Tsanka Shishkova

By Rupa Anand

when daughters become mothers full circle

Rupa Anand

taking a vow

of silence

singing bowl

Rupa Anand

By Dmitry Peredonov

shockumentary

an unidentified corpse

whispers my name

Dmitry Peredonov

a glass of absinthe

my granny’s chest of drawers

creaking in French

Dmitry Peredonov

By Adrian Bouter

bricks —

the wallflower attracts

a butterfly

Adrian Bouter

By Hassane Zemmouri

comfort

the kidney stone out

with the pain

Hassane Zemmouri

By Maya Daneva

inside this fried fish    a fishhook

Maya Daneva

church mass progresses

sticking to each other

candles

Maya Daneva

By Manasa Kaliki

In the summer night

in the cool wind and soft moon

I attained rebirth

Manasa Kaliki

By Kamrun Nahar

wake up

in the sea of mistakes

as a flower

Kamrun Nahar

shadow of death…

wanders from door to door

like a dark ghost

Kamrun Nahar

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

Lemon grass tea sipping

Watching this crazy world

Go by in a blink

Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

 

Jigsaw jazz

Beautiful, misplaced chaos

Blue shadowy moon

Sarah Mahina Calvello

By Janet Krauss

Starlings descend

from the sky

a meteor shower of stars

Janet Krauss

By Stephen C. Curro

no reception

the music

of the river

Stephen C. Curro

daybreak

the gurgle

of the coffeemaker

Stephen C. Curro