Cold Moon Journal

Cold Moon Journal
Photo c. Alf B. Meier

Sunday, November 14, 2021

By Agnes Eva Savich

in my atoms

a mandelbrot set

of the universe


Agnes Eva Savich

By Amrutha Prabhu

amidst crackers and fireworks

I swim through

layers of me 


Amrutha Prabhu

By Neena Singh

roadside café

we share hot coffee

and birdsong


Neena Singh

By Freya Pickard

gentle surf thunders

drowns in a thousand kisses

on compliant sand


Freya Pickard

By Melanie Alberts

after the election

a cockroach belly up

dancing alone

Melanie Alberts

Saturday, November 13, 2021

By Rp Verlaine

red and gold leaves

of autumn forming a trail

that ends in winter


Rp Verlaine

By Richard Bailly

lingering goodbye

orchestra plays the planets

stellar traveler


Richard Bailly

By Samo Kreutz

hide and seek

a boy's grandad

lost among memories


Samo Kreutz

By Douglas J. Lanzo

yesterday’s paper

lines homeless man’s dreams

with what could have been


Douglas J. Lanzo

By Vasile Moldovan

from the hospital gate

two paths are beginning...

only one to home


Vasile Moldovan

By Lakshmi Iyer

night light slips

into my milkshake

vanilla moon


Lakshmi Iyer

By Veronika Zora Novak

awakening

the mind of a lotus . . .

akitsu


Veronika Zora Novak

Friday, November 12, 2021

By Vladislav Hristov

quince garden

my mom’s perfume

alive again


Vladislav Hristov

By Agus Maulana Sunjaya

balmy breeze

mother traces

my face


Agus Maulana Sunjaya

By Mirela Brăilean

winter sea
 
a fair-weather flag
ragged by wind

Mirela Brăilean

By Jackie Chou

pandemic

the lilt of a flute song

lifts the blues

Jackie Chou

By Tsanka Shishkova

lily pond

the flickering reflections

of the stars



Tsanka Shishkova

By Douglas J. Lanzo

Spanish moss

bathed in moonlight

drapes romance by the bay

Douglas J. Lanzo

Wednesday, November 10, 2021

By Milan Rajkumar

classical dance

the divine proportion

she once talked

of a blooming lotus

on a stone buddha's lap


Milan Rajkumar

By Mircea Moldovan

nomadland

between a cactus

and a singing stone

having dinner on clay plates

with a stranger


Mircea Moldovan

Tuesday, November 9, 2021

By Sushama Kapur

secrets lost a labyrinth of drawers

Sushama Kapur

By Keith Evetts

insomnia drips from the faucet

Keith Evetts

By Michael Nickels-Wisdom

fin- 


gers 


once 


straight 


and 


branch- 


es 


new- 


ly 


bare


 

Michael Nickels-Wisdom

By Minal Sarosh

garden party

the squirrel goes up the

squirrel goes down
 

Minal Sarosh

By Christian Ward

Trees undress themselves


Christian Ward

By Jackie Chou

basement haven

a ceiling water stain

smiles at me


Jackie Chou

Pushcart Prize Nominations by Roberta Beach Jacobson

The Pushcart Prize honors the best poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction and essays published (in print or online) by small-press magazines and book publishers. 

The poetry nominations for 2021 from Cold Moon Journal were mailed to Pushcart Press in New York today. Congratulations to these talented poets:


Yasir Farooq

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2021/10/by-yasir-farooq.html


Vladislav Hristov

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2021/02/by-vladislav-hristov.html


JL Huffman

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2021/04/by-jl-huffman.html


Barrie Levine

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2021/10/by-barrie-levine_22.html


Miriam Sagan

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2021/03/by-miriam-sagan.html


Stephen Toft

https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2021/09/by-stephen-toft.html

Monday, November 8, 2021

By John J. Dunphy

Daylight Savings Time ends

my car clock correct

again


John J. Dunphy