Cold Moon Journal

Cold Moon Journal
Photo c. Alf B. Meier

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

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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.

Friday, July 1, 2022

By Orrin PréJean

late morning nap my dreams much like snakes in a snake pit


Orrin PréJean


Orrin PréJean, from Port Arthur, Texas, came to EL Short Poetry around 2006. In 2013 he began writing tanka and has since published two collections of tanka. Orrin now focuses on the history and current practices of senryu and is a senryu poet with his first ebook collection of senryu titled October’s Kid.

Featured Poets for July

Announcing our featured poets for July:


Orrin PréJean


Tiffany Shaw-Diaz


Keith Evetts

Thursday, June 30, 2022

2022 Dwarf Stars Award Nominees


Congratulations to these talented poets nominated for the 2022 Dwarf Stars Award:


Julie Schwerin

Pippa Phillips

Valentina Ranaldi-Adams


Their poems from Cold Moon Journal will be published in the upcoming anthology.


Good luck to the 120 poets who will appear in this anthology, topping out the 1371 poems considered. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) will announce the winner after August.

By Lucia Cardillo

old window ...

the silent embroidery

of a spider


Lucia Cardillo

By Elena Malec

solo guitar

living on a shoestring

budget


Elena Malec

By Marilyn Ashbaugh

resting in the frog's throat summer rain


Marilyn Ashbaugh

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

By Stephen Jarrell Williams

under the sea

yesterdays of time

soaking in the wash


Stephen Jarrell Williams

By Herb Tate

silent workshop

grandfather still

at the lathe


Herb Tate

By Anda Marcu

clear summer night

beneath the floral canopy

a toy left behind


Anda Marcu

By Alvin B. Cruz

snow angels

our wings

almost touch


Alvin B. Cruz

By Susan Burch

blending in

with the curtains

at the party

always the wallflower

never the life


Susan Burch

By C.X.Turner

however low

the sun persists…

rising daily


C.X.Turner

Saturday, June 25, 2022

By Susan Bonk Plumridge

raindrops

rolling down windows—

still the sparrows 

 

Susan Bonk Plumridge

By Refika Dedić

the sky over Ukraine

in the basement silence

rain of bullets


Refika Dedić

Friday, June 24, 2022

By Karen A VandenBos

Cup of jazz flavored

With a shot of muddy blues

Setting lips on fire.


Karen A VandenBos

By Tiffany Liz Mackay

sleepy seaside—

a seagull

announces its presence


Tiffany Liz Mackay

Wednesday, June 22, 2022

By Nancy Brown

rain lilies

in a nearby field

brief constellations


Nancy Brown

By Tffany Shaw-Diaz

to be

a woman

to be

the sea

 

Tffany Shaw-Diaz

By Jim Niffen

everything

becomes nothing   but

your picture


Jim Niffen

By Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo

the air feels

less heavy

smog disappearing

since the day

you walked out of my life


Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo

Monday, June 20, 2022

By Zdenka Mlinar

memory

of St. John's torches

summer solstice


firefly

on my palm


‪‪‪Zdenka Mlinar

By Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

within my grasp the echo of Saturn


Tiffany Shaw-Diaz