strokes of the brush
I
discover
her
last kiss
Lakshman Bulusu
Congratulations to these Cold Moon Journal poets for their 2023 Touchstone Award nominations:
Brad
Bennett
Susan Burch (2)
Keith
Evetts
Mark
Gilbert
Louise
Hopewell
Govind Joshi
Ellen Kom
M. R. Pelletier
Good luck, all!
what the
gull wants
…to sing
to still the sea
Ron
Scully
*
what the crow wants
….dusk
not to be
alone
Ron Scully
I’ve nothing to grieve
Yet here I drown in longing
For
a thing not lost
Nicole Malyj Daone
petals in the wind…
one flower, another flower…
petals
on the ground
Angiola Inglese
the dish runs away
with the curds and whey
while
the cow jumps over the moon …
Bonnie J Scherer
Be patient in change
As a sleeping butterfly
Awakes
in beauty
Mike Turner
*
Droplet of water
Thrown from face of ocean’s wave
Apart,
yet of all
Mike Turner
autumn wind
in her address book
names
Deborah Karl-Brandt
*
two of us
another sleepless night
spring
moon
Deborah
Karl-Brandt