After my mother passed away,
and my father married another woman,
I took my mother's engagement ring;
no one even noticed.

*

BJ Lee
BJ Lee

Raining
the farmer's daughter
reserves her smile
like a barn filled with hay.

*

Jay Coral
BlueJayEye

We pull pumpkin halves, blackened,
out of the oven:
veins sizzle on the leathery flesh
where there were no veins before.

*

Joseph Harker
naming constellations

in the corners
where dust bunnies gather
innocent robots collect

*

Katy Acheson
somethingkaty

Islands of sun light the winter land and at sea a bright rainbow smudges the bruise dark sky.

*

Jackie Morris
Drawing a line in time

tonight
there is no sky
only the rain

and i
am falling

*

Mark Holloway
Beachcoming for the Landlocked

Winter

Slip on a patch of ice
and drive into a ditch,
then try to put on the radio
to pass the time 'til the tow truck arrives
but all that's on it is Christmas music.

*

Benjamin C. Krause
Benjamin C. Krause

I am gossamer.

*

Courtney Zelinsky

cuttlefish lie dead
on a desolate winter beach

*

Ag Synclair

Revolution

The sprung floor rumbles.
Beneath us rats are planning
a coup unnoticed.

*

Kayo Chingonyi
The Train Set Lifestyle

The telephone sits,
a multi-eyed crustacean filled
with the ocean’s snickers and jibes.

*

Matthew Haigh
blue horse poetry

WINTERSCAPE

Thin, gray-
skinned

trees.

Consumptive
light.

The shadows
of birds,

but not
the birds.

*

Howie Good
Apocalypse Mambo

Epiphany –

where did you go?

*

Gareth Trew

The fat pigeon,
improbably,
bundles through the sky.

*

Tom Rendell

Dark blue-grey morning.
A timpani of rain sounds heavy on my world.
Luxuriating in warmth, I tuck down and drift back to sleep.

*

Suzanne Dunne

rotting leaves beckon
she wiggles onto her back--
contented canine

*

G.R. LeBlanc
Reflective Ink

Dirty dishes, ashes, discouraged,
Yellow leaves and nothing left,
Who was right to garden
This morning?

*

Matthew Dexter

like a ship keeling,
the house falling back to earth
and snow

*

Nina Buck

cement worker
with Rosa tattooed across the naked
bridge of his back
sings to the white dust
only time can heal a broken heart

*

Nina Buck

Distance

red river desert
accipitridae seek food
the spoils of war

*

Ag Synclair

an ex-lover's voice chills the air.

*

Najah Parker

empty bowl of soup,
celery
left behind

*

Diana Murray

Black-strap slip-on blisters
lace-up, clickclack: I am sound –
heels on hardwood.

*

Emily Rose Cole
Emily Rose Cole

far-flying birds are strings and rosined bows
the wind / a crying cello

*

Angie Werren
woman, ask the question

three six-year-olds stand
with heads bowed over stilled wings--
monarch funeral

*

Eric T. Marin
Musings and Meanderings

new moon, thin and slick as an eel

bats stitch the stars together
to catch the moon

*

Geoff Sawers
Pioden

War & Peace
tattooed on
your earlobes

*

William Merricle

If I close my eyes
I cannot see
the blood
but I feel
the sun's warmth.

*

Jeff Fleming
nibble - a poetry magazine

crow taunts me from the light pole
do I look like Poe in the pouring rain?

*

Angie Werren
woman, ask the question

Through the naked trees
we can see everything:
road, house, boat, grave.

*

Kathryn Good-Schiff
Dragon's Meow

Buddha smiles broadly
forever he laughs and laughs
he has seen the joke

*

Ken Head

new year's day
i paint a wall
a new shade of white

*

Matt Morden
Morden Haiku