Issue 56

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Issue 56

POETS

Adams, Michael
Barnett, Sandra
Berger, Karen
Brestel, Eric
Center, Julie
Cipriano, Lorraine
Decarolis, Michael
Dickinson, Rachel
Dishner, Jackie
Fitzgerald, Genevieve
Flanagan, Michael
Fontaine, Amy
Gentry, Susan
Hanlen, Jim
Hitri, Mark
Howell, Bodie
Huffy, Phil
Jones, Kelci
Kozma, Joseph J
Kuentzel, Thalia
Larson, Jody
Laussmann, Melissa
Lavalette, Ron.
Levine, Bruce
Liebert, Elisabeth
Macneil, Kevin
Malik, Vyomi
Marinelli, Rocco
Martin, Carolyn
Mcmanes, Robert
Melton, Bill
Moore, Andrew
Mullen, Rene
Perry, Christina
Petty, Randy
Piazza, Robert
Pikarsky, Amparo
Ross, Debra Sasak
Ruth-killgore, Chanacee
Sakai, Suzanne
Shaam, Qandeel
Sibbald, Andrew
Skelley, Billie Holladay
Snyder, James
Tei, Suria
Thorn, Jonathan
Tristram, Hannah-rose
Wasilewski, Nells
Watt, Gary





Rocco Marinelli




Lost in confusion
Enlightenment is within
You just have to feel





Ron. Lavalette




alone on the porch
a man welcomes the morning
Spanish cedar flute





Michael Flanagan




across the pasture
slumbering in the clover
daisies greet the dawn





Jim Hanlen




when I am confused.
even the wind can't decide
go east or head south





James Snyder




Delight migrating
up to cerulean skies.
A bright red balloon.





Debra Sasak Ross




Red rose bud petals
Strewn haphazardly on bed
Wake up, sleepy head.





Hannah-Rose Tristram




In empty moments
I feel the imagined touch -
Your hands on my back.





Elisabeth Liebert




Black magnetic sands
Cliffs shatter waves to white spray
We linger bewitched





Christina Perry




hardy dogwood stems
appear, jutting through the snow,
awaiting springtide





Gary Watt




Youth-endowing snow
All earthly wrinkles smoothing
Turning adult child





Robert Piazza




Biplanes towing signs
fly above the crowded beach---
Haiku in the sky.





Bruce Levine




Golden light on trees
Punctuates the afternoon
Rounding out the day





Karen Berger




Still waters; a deer...
drinking in his reflection.
Narcissus in bloom.





Sandra Barnett




sitting in darkness
waiting for the next haiku
black cursor blinking





Julie Center




let the sunlight stream
through your hair just like the wind
through the trees in Spring





Lorraine Cipriano




Green leaves in sunlight
burn the Buddha image bright
right inside her heart





Rene Mullen




I've become my dad
which is to say a spirit
destined for silence





Billie Holladay Skelley




Winter's chill freezes
unripe fruit in the orchard-
spoiling migrant hopes.





Melissa Laussmann




dawn in Kyoto
dew kissed Sakura branches
an early embrace





Vyomi Malik




Blackened shikaras
Adrift emerald waters
The day lingers on





Bill Melton




yellow wings outstretched
butterfly tries to capture
weak autumn sunshine





Michael DeCarolis




Poor blue jay. At least
I gave him a shady spot
to lay down and die.





Sandra Barnett




kicking leaves aside
looking back at the window
where she used to sit





Andrew Sibbald




season's cold blanket
the muffled silence of night
hello winter moon





Phil Huffy




she waits patiently
old, at the end of the road
when will God notice?





Mark Hitri




not the only one
looking at the stars tonight
it's universal





Genevieve Fitzgerald




his careful photos
cut out the extraneous
capturing what truth





Michael Adams




Orion guides me
And though I'm not often lost
Tonight is overcast





Suzanne Sakai




moonlight on crisp snow
one year gone, one rolling in
rocking, changing life





Andrew Moore




This, my childhood home,
smaller than I remember,
and more important





Jonathan Thorn




The wind wakes up life
Captured in a white bone cage
In the wake of death





Bodie Howell




surrounded by noise
the offer of solitude
my gift from the sea





Amy Fontaine




Crows on the bleachers
Breeze blows clouds across the track
We're moving on soon





Suria Tei




after last night's storm
my neighbor's old trampoline
slanted, still standing





Nells Wasilewski




starry sky above
whippoorwills and crickets sing
summer in concert





Thalia Kuentzel




Cold blanket of white
tucks in fragile blades of grass;
sweet dreams until spring.





Randy Petty




Camping under stars
Still grungy despite all-night
Meteor showers





Kelci Jones




Silver raindrop hangs
Sun-kissed, it falls to the wind
Carried down to earth





Kevin MacNeil




A student drifts through
the poetry section, hums
a sweet melody.





Rachel Dickinson




Dawn lights the pink wall
Apple tree limbs cast shadows -
Illusion of warmth





Carolyn Martin




On a winter night,
the black echo of my breath:
my sole company.





Robert McManes




slow soft music plays
a candlelight's reflection
in my lover's eyes





Joseph J Kozma




Thunder in the sun
Ice berg in the desert sand
Autumn in the air





Chanacee Ruth-Killgore




rain-filled clouds push in
blanketing a fiery sun.
unquenched light cascades...





Jackie Dishner




Downhill ride, so chill.
Light breezes brushing my face,
calming my last nerve.





Jody Larson




cricket in my wall
safe from freezing rain and wind
calling for a friend





Eric Brestel




Scent of mown fescue,
crescendo of cicadas,
my childhood wakens.





Susan Gentry




Carpet of fresh snow
stretches unblemished on lawn
awaiting footprints





Qandeel Shaam




feisty raindrops lash
my window, like fingernails
on my lovers back





Amparo Pikarsky




The prayers you've answered
give me faith beyond reason
you'll come through again.