lake shore camp
the sounds of campfire
from the other side

*

Ramesh Anand

Leaves dangle and tease
like naughty
silk lingerie.

*

Kimberly Childers

Silence. The house is empty, but a door still closes. A call and the echo of a voice still lingers. Silent noise growing out of silence.

*

Mo Hall

puddles need filling
children must hope
each time it rains

*

Armando H. Corbelle

hurricane passes...
enstranged couple
unite

*

Hema Ravi

Summer Rain

The brook is swollen.
In the rush of white water
I can hear their names.

*

Robert H. Demaree Jr.

sultry afternoon...
his drunken snoring
nauseates her

*

Hema Ravi

Regret

A jagged strip of sunlight
finer than a silk thread,
unexpected
on a cold, dark day

*

Doug Draime

Hello Mr Slug,
I saw you slithering on the hospital corridor looking forsaken and out of place.
Did you come in for treatment?
Or were you just passing through?

*

Munir Ahmed (age 12)

nocturnal moths
adjusting their antennae
& trawling for pure sounds
in the darkness

*

Ali Znaidi
Six Sentences Profile

Odiorne Point

Dusty pink seaweed
Ocean lead-gray, almost flat,
Rocky brown sand beach.

*

Robert H. Demaree Jr.

A misty morning over the moors, sheep drifting as day lifts ever so softly.

*

Máire Morrissey-Cummins
Kerkedijk

After a poetry meeting,
a plastic bag snagged on winter branches
is a white crane amongst bulrushes.

*

Sue Blott

by the river our shadows
ripple

*

Rachel Sutcliffe

A trio of great black crows flies low and swift through the woods beside the road. Spies or escorts, I cannot tell.

*

Kathleen Brewin Lewis

rooftop teenage jackdaws test evening curfew

*

Caroline Howlett

dogwood fall

dogwood fall
blossoms
littering the ground:
ashes, petals
white on the shine
of rain-slicked asphalt
like cool spring snow

*

Lyn C. A. Gardner

pinafores of gold
crinolines of soft yellow
scattered beneath orange Pippin

*

kimberly childers

early morning
we drive through the common

at the place where grass meets tarmac
brandishing his tail

fox

*

fiona robyn
a small stone

(sorry about the gaps recently... I've got behind with submissions!)