bare feet encounter
Coney Island sand
feeling
the burn
Patricia Carragon
tar on sidewalk
melts like chocolate
in
the heat
Patricia Carragon
bare feet encounter
Coney Island sand
feeling
the burn
Patricia Carragon
tar on sidewalk
melts like chocolate
in
the heat
Patricia Carragon
back home
from voting
the forgotten chocolate
in my pocket
gone
soft
Randy Brooks
life of a poet
raising a few
choice
words
in
the garden
Randy Brooks
harvest time
the unbeatable law
of
karma
Govind Joshi
river transit
the lighthouse keeper
now
doubles as innkeeper
Govind Joshi
outdoor
barbecue:
on the radio
john lennon
with the
cicadas
adding their beat
Anthony Lusardi
freshness
of the night –
little by little the moon also moves away
Elena
Zouain
poppy
–
the transparency of its dress
Elena
Zouain
summer
evening –
the symphony of silence
resounds
Elena Zouain
frosty morning
talking to each other up close
the two white bubbles
where our words meet –
a
winter love story
Marcellin Dallaire-Beaumont
cold tea my life wasted on work
Timothy
Daly
no less lovely
than the roses
. . . daisies
image and words Timothy
Daly
winter
stars
gritting the road
to the hospice
Stephen Toft
cirrus
cloud
a wisp of sheep’s fleece
on the wire fence
Stephen
Toft
pink oleander
the scent of sunset
sings me into the sound
Joshua St. Claire
the ocean reveals
its colors
dusk waves
Joshua St. Claire
skimming
stone…
our home
in the universe
Tony Williams
tell
me your name—
twisty blue
and purple thing
Tony
Williams
Heat wave—
thanking the oaks
that line the street
M. R. Pelletier
Recess—
the schoolyard sparrows
hide
M. R. Pelletier
empty pews
in the old chapel
deadwood
Mark Hendrickson
my road trip with you
rolling down route 66
tumbleweeds
Mark Hendrickson
parallel lives
a wormhole
in
the first apple
Robert Witmer
a bird
sipping rain
from
a worn-out shoe
Robert Witmer
ancient swamp now desert
emerging from dust
dinosaurs
Wanda Amos
no escape…
a bad dream
on
replay
image and words Wanda Amos
news
of a friend's passing summer clouds
Alvin B. Cruz
bedtime stories
grandma reads
the
palm of my hand
Alvin B. Cruz
clouds
drifting further tests
Alvin B. Cruz
shining sun
after the
longest night
war is over
Tsanka Shishkova
my
new haiku
maybe someone already
wrote it
Tsanka
Shishkova
wednesday morning
the chai goes cold
again
Nivedita Rao
what i was
i am not
shedded
snakeskin
Nivedita Rao
Coffee Ritual
I pour the coffee
then I stir clockwise three times
to
get through the day
Alicia Alves
mother's hair . . .
the sky overcast
with
nimbus clouds
Bipasha Majumder (De)