Booth, Lea
Bounds, Sandra
Burfield, Tony
Caudill, Belinda
Colline, Virginie
Currin, Anne
Dow, Jean Hagert
Edwards, David
England, Kristina
Goldfarb, Reuven
Hanson, Christopher Kenneth
Harris, Will
Hemmerich, Matt
Hopper, Stephanie
Howell, Traci
Jones, Grahame
Ketover Prilik, Pearl
Kosler, Sonja
Manus, Grady
Margo, Matt
Maria, Anna
May, Nancy
Mcalpine, Patricia
Orr Stone, Mauri
Park, Christine
Smothers, Shirley
Steele, Craig
Swofford, Ryan
Sonja Kosler
maple leaves shiver
waning half moon suspended
slow vanishing act
Grahame Jones
Dandelion spores
paraglide the gust of wind
to prospective homes.
Shirley Smothers
A stolen poem
Took credit for my effort
Poem was removed
Stephanie Hopper
Away we fly now
Through starlit skies above us
To visit the moon
Stephanie Hopper
A dewy green blade
Bids the bright dawn good morning
To begin the day
Stephanie Hopper
Glowing orb above
Fierce and fiery ablaze
Burns and sears the earth
Reuven Goldfarb
Mist fills the valley,
billows up, obscures the hills.
Droplets coat the leaves.
Craig Steele
at Mom's funeral ?
I hate the people who say
she looks so good, now
Craig Steele
at my mother's wake
the sweet scent of apple pie
causes me to gag
Craig Steele
spooning afterwards ?
companionable silence
between each heartbeat
Shirley Smothers
A pain deep inside
The pregnancy has ended
Grieve my unborn child
Jean Hagert Dow
a cold May morning
greets reddish brown centipede
in warm white bathtub
Jean Hagert Dow
in line or no line
adding a touch of wind gusts
without a life link
Christopher Kenneth Hanson
Mirrored through water
Cold brown stones underneath me
A red leaf floats by.
Traci Howell
Young Weeping Willow
Cascades just over the Earth
Shimmers, Mystical
Traci Howell
Cloudburst Shatters Forth
Quick- commence the dynamics
Teardrops from Heaven
Traci Howell
halo set ablaze
up in the sky-black moon hides
annular eclipse
David Edwards
the alarm clock whirrs
with dark incongruity
it is Too A.M.
David Edwards
under trees the air
thick and sweet with blossom scent
bumble bees frighten
David Edwards
The open window
sound of lawn mower engines
smell of fresh-cut grass
Belinda Caudill
I know of no one
that would wrap up the sunshine
and give it to me.
Patricia McAlpine
Birds sing in mornings,
a lively chatter at dawn.
I breathe in the day.
Mauri Orr Stone
the impatient sun
rising earlier each day
gladdens dawn's birdsong
Mauri Orr Stone
short sleeves and bare feet
we can play all the long day
and sleep the short night
Mauri Orr Stone
heat's shimmering glow
changes stretches of highway
to hand-blown glass paths
Nancy May
Medication helps
Invalids laying in beds ?
Health sits on petals
Will Harris
Cold gives way to warm
This season hope starts anew
Today I saw you
Sandra Bounds
Thin sliver of moon
hangs askew in the darkness
of an Autumn sky
Sandra Bounds
Leaves drift and scatter
at the mercy of the wind
Autumn's ghosts of Spring
Sandra Bounds
Leaves fall and scatter
softly cover the Earth's bed
with Winter's warm quilt
Pearl Ketover Prilik
Cat on windowsill
Folding boneless in sunlight
Origami breathes
Matt Hemmerich
words you spoke dripped with
ink?elusive mess scribbles
fiction on the floor
Matt Hemmerich
thrashing in the leaves,
there was an animal trapped
your disheveled cuts
Virginie Colline
insouciant hours
crazy hopscotch and leapfrog
in the spring garden
Christine Park
Albino Peacock
Such beauty and elegance
Feathers white as snow
Grady Manus
night grieves loss of light
stars tentatively console
? unmoved, nighthawks dance
Grady Manus
great blue heron stands
motionless shadow watching
? nearby wild plums bloom
Grady Manus
death shroud of white mist
borne on whisper-soft cat paws ?
river valley morn
Kristina England
Leaves unfold morning.
Mother picks gnats from her chicks
Rain muddies our lawn.
Kristina England
Water laps at dirt,
peeling back the road ahead.
My car bumps along.
Anna Maria
the last winter's tale
leaves snow on my brown door step
my feet frost bitten.
Anna Maria
Lovers kiss and tell
tales blown in the summer winds
my eyes share secrets
Anna Maria
at night the dog barks
shadows on my wall reflect
the patter of rains
Anne Currin
Imagination:
Closed eyes let us make believe
life's not as it seems.
Tony Burfield
flip-flop down the creek?
tripping along the mud bank,
a tall one-flop man
Ryan Swofford
Black branches fade blue
shivering under wet dew
and snap and crush me
Lea Booth
One limb hanging down
into the river's pathway
changes everything.
Lea Booth
Covered in winter's
branches, moon rises from a
bed of soft gray clouds.
Lea Booth
Snowflakes shaken out -
a softly sewn patternless
quilt of purest white.
Matt Margo
The sky splits open
and a waterfall rushes
from the void like light.