Sample poems
Issue #49, Fall 2022
starless night
a dozen moons
reflected in the sea
Deborah P Kolodji
Temple City, CA
snowcapped
the truths buried in
my mouth
Agnes Eva Savich
Austin, TX
everybody
has a story
not to tell
John Stevenson
Nassau, NY
midsummer reverie
sound of splashing waves
in my mint soda
Keiko Izawa
Yokohama, Japan
the back and forth
of a willow warbler
summer dusk
John Barlow
Ormskirk, UK
round midnight
Miles
before I sleep
John O’Connor
Chicago, IL
Issue #48, Spring 2022
deathly pale . . .
a lily comes out
from under the earth . . .
Eugeniusz Zacharski
Radom, Poland
migrants . . .
hopscotch
on the stone bridge
Mircea Moldovan
Jibou, Romania
caper flowers
. . . and I thought I was done
with this grief
Polona Oblak
Ljubljana, Slovenia
magnolia buds . . .
birds plumping feathers
against the chill
Ingrid Baluchi
Ohrid, North Macedonia
the ringing
of faraway bells
dusk in a field
Ernest Wit
Warsaw, Poland
lakeside walk
a seagull’s cry sneaks
into my playlist
Tomislav Sjekloca
Cetinje, Montenegro
windless dawn
a marigold wreath
sways in the kelp
J. Zimmerman
Santa Cruz CA
Issue #47, Fall 2021
glass lake
trailing my fingers
through the clouds
Barbara Sabol
Akron OH
filled with sky
the voice of a child
lost in play
Cora Whitmore
Bangor ME
ocean sunset
beach chairs folded
into jumbled stacks
Julie Schwerin
Sun Prairie WI
the Big Dipper
tipped on end
petal fall
Jennifer Burd
Ann Arbor MI
a spider works
the seam in the wall
night heat
David Grayson
Alameda CA
starless night—
we wish instead
upon a streetlight
Michael Dylan Welch
Sammamish WA
space debris . . .
the newborn foal
finds its legs
Ferris Gilli
Marietta GA
Issue #46, Spring 2021
scenic route
the breath
I was holding
Michelle Schaefer
Bothell WA
fog
I wake up
a fugitive
Fay Aoyagi
San Francisco CA
city sidewalk
the empty spot
where he asked for change
Jay Friedenberg
Tuckahoe, NY
tornado weather
a clatter of cubes
in the ice maker
Kristen Lindquist
Camden ME
midday heat
the flagger slows life
to a crawl
Tom Painting
Atlanta, GA
in a redwood groove rain song
Victor Ortiz
Bellingham WA
bowl of ice cream
slowing down as
I near the bottom
Bill Kenney
Whitestone NY
Issue #45, Fall 2020
cool morning
the yeast and I
slowly rise
Marilyn Ashbaugh
Edwardsburg MI
bus stop
a little girl pedals by
in butterfly wings
Dan Curtis
Victoria, BC, Canada
lockdown
the town recluse
carries on
Ferris Gilli
Marietta GA
nothing for them here
cottonwood puffs drift
through my daydream
Sam Bateman
Everett WA
out of breath
the windchimes
sing for her
Helen Buckingham
Bristol, UK
another friend
crosses over
the meadowlark’s song
Carolyn Hall
San Francisco CA
summer sunset
silent fists
fill the sky
Gideon Young
Chapel Hill, NC
Issue #44, Spring 2020
foam on my ankles
the ragged edge
of the continent
Ruth Yarrow
Ithaca NY
feeling my age
a maple leaf crumbles
in my hand
Jeannie Martin
Arlington MA
night rain a new tent beneath the bridge
frances angela
London, UK
sleepless—
I turn and watch
the moon watch me
Mary Kendall
Chapel Hill NC
she asks me to pray
a maple leaf
on her rain-wet shoe
Mary Stevens
Hurley NY
pain
I whisper about it
to complete strangers
Roberta Beach Jacobson
Indianola IA
candlelit shadows
we forget
we are mortal
Tia Haynes
Lakewood OH
reflecting pool
the flag
wavers
Laurie Greer
Washington, DC
all the rage white masks
Cherie Hunter Day
Menlo Park CA
actuarial table
a firefly escapes
from the jar
Shloka Shankar
Bangalore, India