Cold Moon Journal

Cold Moon Journal
Photo c. Alf B. Meier

Thursday, July 28, 2022

By Keith Evetts

pasque flowers

what if everything

is true


Keith Evetts

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Sunday, July 24, 2022

By Orrin PréJean

in the night suspended between shadow and more shadow


Orrin PréJean

Saturday, July 23, 2022

By Keith Evetts

so many birds my empty hands


Keith Evetts

Thursday, July 21, 2022

from every angle by Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

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Tuesday, July 19, 2022

By Orrin PréJean

derailed train

*

 

how apt

a metaphor

of my life 

  

Orrin PréJean

By Tiffany-Shaw Diaz

i am everywhere the wave unfurls


Tiffany-Shaw Diaz

Monday, July 18, 2022

By Keith Evetts

last page ripped out

we'll never know

who did it


Keith Evetts

Friday, July 15, 2022

By Orrin PréJean

early afternoon

i lose myself

in the color

of tea


Orrin PréJean

By Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

the rain on my body remembering yours


Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

By Keith Evetts

memoirs

it turns out

life was wonderful


Keith Evetts

Thursday, July 14, 2022

By Orrin PréJean

viola concerto a moment when things makes sense


Orrin PréJean

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

By Keith Evetts

winter three crows are company


Keith Evetts

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

By Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

on forgiving the wind i am weary


by Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

Saturday, July 9, 2022

By Orrin PréJean

sweeping river willows for a moment nothing matters


Orrin PréJean


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Thursday, July 7, 2022

and you will rise again by Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

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By Keith Evetts

politics

and religion

believing they're true


Keith Evetts

By Orrin PréJean

snake oil salesman...

i hurry past a church

this Sunday


Orrin PréJean

Wednesday, July 6, 2022

By Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

more radioactive than a lily after rain


Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

By Keith Evetts

lazy Sunday

what do woodpeckers

think about it


Keith Evetts

By Orrin PréJean

streetlamps lined up like toy soldiers...protecting who?


Orrin PréJean

helix by Tiffany Shaw Diaz

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Monday, July 4, 2022

By Keith Evetts

fourth of July

almost as auspicious

as last year


Keith Evetts

By Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

swaying in dawn's blush an ancient dialect


Tiffany Shaw-Diaz


Tiffany Shaw-Diaz is a Pushcart Prize and Dwarf Stars Award nominee who also works as a professional visual artist. She was shortlisted for The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Award for Individual Poem in 2020 and won in 2021. Her poetry has been featured in Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Bones, NHK World Haiku Masters, The Mainichi, and more than 100 other publications. Her chapbooks include: says the rose (Yavanika Press 2019), filth (Proletaria 2020), and tyranny of the familiar (Yavanika Press 2020).

Sunday, July 3, 2022

By Orrin PréJean

sleepy this morning

i am unsure how long

i wait for the bus


Orrin PréJean

By Keith Evetts

{{{{{woodpecker}}}}}


Keith Evetts

Saturday, July 2, 2022

By Orrin PréJean

vacation in Belgium

the narrative i tell

the marigolds


Orrin PréJean

By Keith Evetts

Forbidden Planet

my little daughter

wants to go there


Keith Evetts


A former biologist and retired British diplomat, Keith Evetts has published papers in Nature and other scientific periodicals, and long-form poetry in The Oxford Magazine and elsewhere. His haiku and related forms have appeared in Wales Haiku Journal, Frogpond, Blithe Spirit, Prune Juice, Asahi Shimbun, Cold Moon Journal, Failed Haiku, Heliosparrow, Mamba, Fireflies’ Light, Haiku In Action, Cattails, World Haiku Review, Presence, Poetry Pea, Sonic Boom, MacQueens Quinterly, and at The Haiku Foundation; and award-winning cherita and gembun in The Cherita books and the Gembun anthologies. Listed in the top 100 European haikuists, he hosts the haiku commentary feature re:Virals at The Haiku Foundation. Married, with five children, a grey parrot and a sense of humour.