in a garden
a wandering child—
one less daffodil

*

G.R. LeBlanc
Reflective Ink

my rich neighbor —
late at night
he slowly
peels
an orange

*

Melissa Allen
Red Dragonfly

spring morning
son wears red, daughter purple —
rhododendrons bloom

*

Craig W. Steele

Washed by the night

Drizzling rain
Moist evening air
Tree silhouettes
A backdrop
Of fading light

*

Katherine Murray

from a barren hill

you can see past winter

to spring

*

Peach

Haiku Today

Dear Liver: Sorry.

*

Matthew Dexter
Pinche Pirata Escritor Chingon

When Night Falls

on a bullet train
I read Remembrance of Things Past
outside my soul's window
a dark blue sea

*

Chen-ou Liu
Poetry in the Moment

a cry
wings graze
water

*


Marcel Peltier
Poesie Minimaliste

laughter
a dancing bead curtain
...
beyond
a private place
no locks
yet
nowhere to knock

*

James Newton

THREAT OF SNOW

The skyscrapers
lean together
in bleak overcoats.

*

Howie Good
Apocalypse Mambo

out the window
branches form
a jesus fish

*

Larry Jones

Going to Home Depot with the wife for some new curtain rods for the new curtains. Now that's gangsta.

*

Matthew Dexter

morning breaks
the songs of sparrows
and the garbage truck
hauling the broken television away

*

Heather Brager
Touching the Art

Dress codes

”He doesn’t like men in hats”
the owner of the Rottweiler said when the ambulance arrived.

*

Carl-Henrik Björck

With a small finger, a boy traces
the veins of his father's forearm;
The man doesn't notice.

*


Kelly Eastlund
Stars and Willows

motorcycle caravan: on the shirt of the oldest rider, my grandmother’s name embroidered in pink thread

*

Melissa Allen
Red Dragonfly

The silver birch opposite
my flat has unravelled
its bandages. Magpies
scour the loot for gold,
specks of yesterday's sky.

*

Christian Ward

almost lunchtime - cooking smells sneak between snowflakes... powdery snowflakes, like freshly grated parmesan

*

Dana-Maria Onica

absent-minded
squirrel
misplaced his
acorn
cache

*

Barbara Boethling

there was a bug in the bark
he couldn’t reprogram the tree

*

Geoff Sawers

after the deluge,
a blink of sun before night falls

*

Vasiliki Katsarou

like a bat
trying to be both bird and mouse
I waver
Eric one moment
Chen-ou the next

*

Chen-ou Liu
Poetry in the Moment

over the gable
of my ugly house
— the moon

*

Melissa Allen
Red Dragonfly

rhododendrons
drop petals in summer’s heat —
mosaic on mulch

*

Craig W. Steele

A mango
Perfectly undignified
Runs rivers
Through my goatee
Until satiety

*

Vince L. Wilson

Curled fur tails bask sun
heads turn facing each other.
I count the wind
chime three.

*

Clarisssa Jakobsons

Before I met this Brazilian neighbour

I never thought
I’d dress up
To do the laundry

*

Carl-Henrik Björck

In the middle of a crowd
of people panicking
over whether they'll make it home,
I stop
and catch a snowflake on my tongue.

*

Jacquelyn Deighton
ok, so i'm the dragon

day of the gale -
today I am the jenny wren seeking
shelter in between stones.

*

Nat Hall
nordic blackbird

sick train the night heron shifts silt for all of us

*

Alan Summers
with words

Short-sighted

Dumped by the optician,
I wake to my TV's cataract;
the city swallowed in fog.

*

Christian Ward