Blue Pride by Stefanie Shapiro
The lines run on the surface of her skin, her face
Thin, translucent skin
Marathoners thirsty for distance, slow but steady [...]
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Stories
The Undertaker by Cadeem Lalor
I used to speak with my family more, used to have more friends,
Over the years, they have drifted away [...]
Unlikely by Marc Isaac Potter
Unfortunately right out of the gate I have to tell you that I'm a disabled person
If I listed all the things that are wrong [...]
Out Of Sight, Out Of Land; The Tree That Brings Me Home by Reed Venrick
Still dawn, heading southeast
Out of Key Largo’s mangroves.
Watch your I-phone’s compass
move between 90 degrees to
120 [...]
Perspective; Business As Usual by Lesley Goldie
red roofs
lichen covered
chimneys like sentries make a nonsense
of perspective [..]
Nobody Really Dies; I Don't Want To Die; Nobody Lives Forever by Gale Acuff
Nobody really dies my Sunday School
teacher says, They live on in Heaven or
in Hell if you can call life in Hell life [...]
I Drew The Death Card by Mona Mehas
I drew the Death Card
Of ghostly ghastly supernatural significance
Cherry-chocolate, lemon-lime
Flavors your choice, take your time [...]
Bonetown; Here I Rest, And Cave by Lotté Jean
Mouths come to their end
speak only solemnly yet with fire tongues.
Dirt traps and privilege zones that fade [...]
Poems Everywhere; Another Poem Ruined By A Parachute; Troublemakers With Pens by Richard LeDue
You may not know it,
but you're a walking potential poem.
All you need to do is double park
beside a poet, and they'll turn a page [...]
The Spectacles by Sujata Sahani; translation by Pitambar Naik
Not because it’s not visible to me from the root of the palm tree
from the wavy paddy fields, the scarecrow calls me [...]
summer swimming by Krista Kulisch
velvet wafts of stale air
chewed gum melted into sinking
pools for unsuspecting strays
who don’t watch the hands
of the clock [...]
Iteritiveness; This Isn't Persiflage by Sanjeev Sethi
Musicality of slant rhyme
comes naturally to some:
as with strangeness
and other shortcomings. [...]
Poets In The Rain by Michael Lee Johnson
All poets are crazy. Listen to them soak
sponge in early rain medley notes sounding off [...]
Muse by Charlotte Rahme
The woman’s hair was brittle and grey, as she lay in her quiet bed.
Breathing in the fading day,
Soft, weak, shallow [...]
The Spice I Did Not Like Was Chives by Leslie Cairns
I finally figured out the spice I did not
Like, when I was a kid, and grandpa
Would hand me spaghetti [...]
Street Corners by Joan McNerney
Enveloped in exhaust fumes
slate-like formations
wait for light to change
her carbon dress
his face of ashes [...]
Fields Burn by Ann Privateer
I’m writing with charcoal
in a field on fire
because fields burn
to burn [...]
Survival of an Empath by Louise Worthington
The voices around her shout their woes.
Her whole house
Quivers
The walls begin to shake
Melancholy breeze pries its fingertips [...]
A House Divided by Kathleen Chamberlin
The war within me rages still:
An endless ebb and flow, high tides and low
A riptide of dangerous, clashing emotions [...]
4 Haiku by Jerome Berglund
jupiter's digestive tract:
small solar system
and one kuiper object [...]
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