shaking hands
grandma ends up with
a raw mango
Ram Chandran
Coming Storm
Michael Shoemaker
silent flame the scented lullaby of her candle
Oscar Luparia
terracotta canvas
Frida Kahlo lilies
Mexico
Diane Funston
wedding day…
leaving parents’ home
Steliana Cristina Voicu
Twin moons silver coins wish for peace
Voima Oy
rushing forth the war-horses’ legs become invisible Xiaoou Chen
noon-time walk
under the autumn sun
a cloud of gnats Albert Schlaht
feeling a presence like a breath upon my neck, with no body there
Anthony Ward
penguins dance
ocean waves froth
settles underfoot
Lakshman Bulusu
January… the hairdryer brings July
Tony Williams
Your arms don't hold me
anymore. Instead, I fly,
buzz around your head.
Nancy Story
rare moment
shared with grandchild
ice cream sandwich
Richard Bailly
cold snap—
breaking through the fog
a robin's song
Adele Evershed
River reflections
bounce green-gold doubloons
back onto treetops.
Chad Parenteau
Summer sunrise
The taste of gran's
Yukon gold mash
Madhavi. K
blue sky in winter
glistens on a bluebird day—
brimful baby blues
Monica Kakkar
Woman Living with Wolves
midnight the walls still speakingheat Srini
rising with the bird’s wings mountain tops
Minal Sarosh
allons-y
a murmuration of starlings
carries off my gazeJoshua St. Claire
garden swing
holding the memory
of a storm
Joanna Ashwell
humming the tune
a song never sung Ann Christine Tabaka
safe cave
warm campfire glowing
against a dark world Stephen Jarrell Williams
tree pose of a yoga morning autumn leaves
Elliot Diamond
autumn's end
the loneliness of
empty trees
Charles E. Lawler
billions of neutrinos
passing through me...
all alone
Eugeniusz Zacharski