a line
of coffee cups
reclines
on the snow wall
between my house and the neighbor's

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Chen-ou Liu
Poetry in the Moment

young man clings to his small son -
jagged bus ride.

*

Najah Parker
Pretty Purple Goody Hood

cicada shell
swaying from an apple branch
morning of the funeral

*

Andrea Vlahakis
Andrea Vlahakis

The car has a spongy suspension and a Scorpio
air freshener that smells like Mexican
hair products

*

davidbdale
davidbdale

cicada
levered on husk
departs afresh

*

T.D. Ingraham
T.D. Ingraham

Mighty winds put things on tilt. Those things fall faster than you think.

*

Gary Dubola Memi
RAILROAD POETRY

Arriving at Paddington Station:
the big metal womb; the girders
hold the groans of thousands poured into London.

*

Matthew Friday
Matthew Friday

we peel pears
on the back steps
hands swarm with bees

*

T.D. Ingraham
T.D. Ingraham - Haiku

torn photograph
of my grandfather
holding me in his arms.

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Priyanka Bhowmick
Poetry: A Reflection of Mind

they dance in the cool
afternoon St. Augustine
barefoot girls!

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J. Bruce Fuller
J. Bruce Fuller

Blow

She took off his belt. They woke the neighbors. He took her off. Billy was fighting dragons when the wind came in the front door.

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Parker Tettleton
August Light

A fatigued dusk:
the sun draws the quilted sky
for a blanket and
turns its back
on the blue.

*

Tom Rendell

012810

Slick humpback passing
now through Aleutian winter low.
Leaving Dutch Harbor.

*

Tom Chapman
SV TATOOSH

hands unburdened,
her limber body bows.
sprinkled from the watering pot,
a subtle grace spills forward
as she forms a larger shadow.

*

Jade Zirino

broadsheet newspaper. spread like a table cloth. laid in preparation for a feast of words

*

jem
- the sound of splinters -

Male Blackbird,
beak full of dried leaves and moss,
ready for the year’s big DIY job.

*

Caroline M Davies
Advancing Poetry

Paradise

It was in Cairo,
where I took the last chair
in a crowded waiting room,
that a stranger offered
his seat to my husband.
Please, he said, sit
beside your paradise.

*

Tamra Hays
Laughing Dove Poetry

eyeing the scrape on her knee,
unable to explain how
the last duckling in the flock died

*

Stacey Wilson
mother sparrow poetry

•A flash of yellow
•Among the sticky lime leaves
•The Goldcrest attacks

*

Angela
Margybargy verses

she fell
the cadence of her life / interrupted
by a soft-sliding

*

Angie Werren
"woman, ask the question"

Serenity

green leaves on a blue pond
float in golden sun
as red birds softly sing

*

rob kistner
Image & Verse

in Toronto
the meeting place
I've nothing to do --
one, two, three
tourists pass me by

*

(Note: The origin of the name "Toronto" comes from the Huron word toran-ten, which literally means meeting place)

*

Chen-ou Liu
Stay Drunk on Writing

sparrow's nest in the birch
thunderstorm, gale, blizzard
sparrow's nest in the birch

*

Andrea Vlahakis
Andrea Vlahakis

The last pour
brings the roiling head foaming to the top of the glass where it poises,
poises,

*

davidbdale
davidbdale

i live in one of those home made terrariums
on my kitchen sill where i'm growing and no one else is

see that's the thing about depression...

hopefully something like
eggplant parmesan for dinner

*

Joseph D. Reich

Promise

He would love her if he told her like he used to all hours of the day when he was six inches from her face or three hundred and fifty odd miles away in an apartment he shared with some letters and photographs from when she was in Spain the summer he made the promise he now calls a lie.

*

Parker Tettleton
August Light

Today, I resisted
biscuits with my tea;
there's no limit to
what I can accomplish!

*

Gareth Trew
C'est tellement mystérieux, le pays des larmes!

All trains were cancelled except one.
It pulled through & arrived at the vast station,
breaking the March sun at the entrance
of the tunnel like a devious God.

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Tammy Ho Lai-Ming
my etcetera

when will I ever learn
love, delicate and new
like snow melts away

*

Melanie Bishop
Cassiopeia Rises

Tonight                                 the yard
moon-shot white

Oh to be a tree             picked clean

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Martin Cockroft

013010

Ten thousand bluefin
longlined...cut up...swallowed.
Pacific twilight.

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Tom Chapman
SV TATOOSH