Issue 43

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Issue 43

POETS

Agnew, Zach
Barilla, Donny
Blazure, Drew
Burchett, Michelle
Campion, Patricia
Cannon, Karen Jane
Chun, Joy
Dawson, Jessica
Drobot, Ana
Ervin, Ahjanay
Esposito, Lynette
Flanagan, Michael
Formosa, Charlotte
Gentry, Susan
Gilmer, Monty
Grisetti, Joann
Gyukics, Gabor
Hill, Rowland
Iyer, Jayshree
Kamp, Lianne
Kelly, David
Knabe, Martin
Knodel, Christopher
Kozma, Joseph J
Lam, Jeremy
Laparr, Maria
Lee-byrd, Candace
Leonard, Pete
Lorenson, Joyce
Lowe, Dennis
Maltez, Kevin
Melton, Bill
Moss, Jon
Red, Elias
Rossi, Patricia
Schupp, Bonnie
Shaw, Martha
Spencer, Kim
Tchakova, Wilhelmina
Treiber, Colin
Vasquez, Isabella
Weisser, Elizabeth
West, Tyson





Zach Agnew




Alone in the night
Blinking eyes search in the dark
The moon sheds some light





Patricia Campion




Chimney smoke alone
Stirs after the storm. As for
The landscape: white out.





Patricia Campion




Flock of ibises?
Their beaks bracket the ground in
Red parentheses





Joseph J Kozma




Two storks and a cat
Linens drying on the line
Summer on the farm





Joseph J Kozma




Snow piles on the ground
Looking for longevity
First week in April





Drew Blazure




The hollow heart cries
Seeking a true companion
A wagging tail calls





Jayshree Iyer




hanging from a branch
where birds nested in the spring
icicles in pairs





Tyson West




puff of powder snow
permeates a cedar branch
her fingers thread his





Tyson West




cemetery hill
rising snow carries the dead
further away still





Wilhelmina Tchakova




Trees stripped bare of leaves
under a crisp, golden star
while fruits are yielded.





Michelle Burchett




walking across snow
leaving watery footprints
as winter exits





Michelle Burchett




under shrouds of cloud
stealthy purple mountains rise
to capture the sun





ROWLAND HILL




Snow-white butterfly
Floats by on a summer breeze
Slowly melts away





Jessica Dawson




flying day old bread
seagull pleads with wanting eyes?
proceeds with caution





Jessica Dawson




beautiful glacier
standing above small city
eyes touch snow clothed hills





Elias Red




His lung portioned out.
Sterile sheets, beeping. Outside
the leaves are turning.





Dennis Lowe




yesterday's cold wind
chimney smoke and street blown leaves
hours before snow





Kim Spencer




hawk with mouse alights
fence post's quiet tenancy
salutes carmine dawn





Ahjanay Ervin




A day for mourning.
Another angel is born.
Tears dry on her face.





Isabella Vasquez




On the desert road,
the setting sun paints me gold
a lonely fox cries.





Jeremy Lam




The cool breeze hisses?
snow hides the big Everest
travelers climb up





Ana Drobot




the stars remain still
in the dark depths of the night -
no boats on the lake





Maria LaParr




Trait Missionary
The world engaging anew
Transformed in goodness





Kevin Maltez




Broken desert floor
Water drops fill crevasses
A sapling in bloom





Gabor Gyukics




In the moonless sky
a shadow walks the sunshine
to the other side





Charlotte Formosa




Go bloom sakura
This beauty too shall perish
The lesson lingers





Joy Chun




Pole in the water
leaves start to fall as I wait
Finally, a tug





Christopher Knodel




silent in its path
the moon reflects in ripples
leaping to each wave





Elizabeth Weisser




Rain has a secret,
Taps your shoulder then a toe:
Warm breath into earth.





Joann Grisetti




a wandering breeze
those dead-brown palm fronds clicking
well into matins





Patricia Rossi




donned in velveteen
lavender clustered crocus
spring's precious debut





Lianne Kamp




Black ocean waves run
Fingers through the moonlight harp
Midnight opera





Bill Melton




The solace of words
And the healing balm of time
Sweeten memories





Lynette Esposito




heavy with wet snow
dark long fingertips sky bound
point accusations





David Kelly




oarless, rudderless
just an ordinary leaf
drifting out to sea





Donny Barilla




Sunbeams slap the snow,
grassy pouches surfacing,
thick breads rise with warmth.





Donny Barilla




Sauntering mint leaves,
winds of spring swim tenderly,
eager rain taps soft.





Donny Barilla




The fleece of winter,
iced juices and sweetened breeze,
cardinals courting.





Susan Gentry




Warm summer breezes
memories of three sisters
calmness before storm





Colin Treiber




So sure of itself
In the dead of the winter;
Dreamless, sleepless night.





Jon Moss




Sleet and snow falling.
Inactive withered fields lay,
seeds patiently wait.





Joyce Lorenson




tree swallows return
settling into their old home
a spring sky stirring





Martin Knabe




In the midday sun;
A spider dragging its web
through the withered grass.





Martha Shaw




Leaves flutter and turn
Wrapped in wind, dark clouds, and rain
Still the robin sings





Karen Jane Cannon




The diving whales leave
flat circles of sea - mirrors
into both our worlds.





Candace Lee-Byrd




Indigo sky eats
the sun and stars, silver, light
a velvet nightfall.





Michael Flanagan




beyond my screen door
the elms sigh in a spring breeze
school bus rattles by





Pete Leonard




The full moon tarries
admiring her rival's blush
blooming on the hills





Monty Gilmer




Rain falls. Leaves begin
to spring. Little lambs skip. Birds
couple, build and sing.





Bonnie Schupp




Forest path reveals
multicolored quilt. One leaf
remains quivering.