The Milky Way is just
a handful of stardust.

*

Luigi Pagano

Dead rabbit - gulls pick over the newly ploughed field.

*

Jon Summers
Hum

Row

Words duck under the flying
mortars of shouts and screams.

*

Christian Ward
Christian Ward

Hayride

With my lover and son we
rode wrapped up in a blanket
before he deployed.

*

Catherine Zickgraf
Catherine Zickgraf

He shot at the mirror
and fell to the floor

in a puddle of his own blood.

*

Kimberly E Ruth
Kimberly E Ruth

The stars are out in daylight
The night is overdue

*

Chloe Jayne Waterfield
Chloe Waterfield ART

A split second on the bike at ninety-five through Death Valley
when I realize the wild blue lobelia are in bloom.

*

George Moore
George Moore

Clitter of keys,
alive in my pocket.
They dance and flirt,
bristling,
a tinny din.

*

Tom Rendell

clouds shroud
the moon’s sincerity

*

Tim Nees

Silent the sunset and dawn.

*

Stephen Jarrell Williams

A boy rips his lunch
in pieces
and throws the scraps
at a chorus
of cheering geese.

*

Rob Dawson
Rob Dawson

And The Stars Moved So Gently

Silent women
tread on carpets
of black and blue.

*

Christian Ward

Another weekend over, under a sky of stars I empty the car.

*

Jon Summers
Hums

Lucidity

My enhanced reflection - reduces introspection

*

Ant Smith
Ant Smith

summer starts
boys bid goodbye
headmaster alone

*

Ankur Agarwal
The Virtuoso

the morning light is no different
from the moon's wreath –
a holy invalid
glowing

*

Ainslee Meredith
Never, Esther

The first time cutting into a beet,
I am startled—
a luminous jewel,
made of blood

*

James Brush
Coyote Mercury

a puddle of striped cat spreads across the floor

*

Audrey and Talia Mucci

Birds love spring
So Cat decides
To love spring too.

*

Brian Pike
Paiku

Evening unfolds her petals,
clouds of lavender aromatherapy

*

Sandy Hiss
Flutter

Winter, Lewis Bay

Sleet-gray rollers
rush the shore
like dropouts racing
shopping carts
in an empty parking lot

*

Howie Good
Apocalypse Mambo

milk spilt
or moon light
- bare feet

*

Mark Holloway
Beachcombing for the Landlocked

Young chestnut trees with black bark mottled with woody eczema.

*

Matthew Friday
Matthew Friday

A grouch of eyebrows,
flying geese stagger
under silted clouds.

*

Gordon Mason
Catapult To Mars

Trees stretch their black arms against a gold and denim sky, a highway for squirrel racing.

*

Charlotte Babb
Charlotte Babb

sunset, village pond:
egrets hunch closer to their reflections

*

Kelly Shepherd
kellyshepherd.com

pigeon slips on slates
skitters down slick slidey roof
forgets it has wings

*

Catherine Edmunds
Catherine Edmunds / Novelist and Poet

I am bored of the
Wafts of incense, and
The rattling of raindrops
On the glass.

*

Emily Smith
Spark Bright

The moon drifts - fuzzy behind a gauze of midnight cloud.

*

Juliet Wilson
Crafty Green Poet

purple crocus opens up to venerate the sun

*

Fiona Robyn
Planting Words

Swans sing before they die.
At the school the late bell has already rung.

*

Howie Good
Apocalypse Mambo