smols is an eclectic poetry journal featuring ultra-shorts, five words max. No themes. Submit up to five untitled pieces. Email to fivefleasitchypoetry@gmail.com with smols as your subject.
global warming ~ gambling world — Oscar Luparia
her lunar eclipses his — Randy Brooks
a bomb scaring the lightning
— Soumya Mukherjee
white
handkerchief-
love?
Truce? — Partha Sarkar
war without end wisteria
— Alvin B. Cruz
for the love of go(l)d — Roberta Beach Jacobson
cathedral earth water sun ecumenical
— dan smith
comets scratch the night sky
— Royal Rhodes
the heavens scream in asterisks
dooby do be dubious
— John H. Dromey
periodic tables occasional chairs
Little birds thrown in storms
— Sarah Mahina Calvello
Beautiful but concerning sky trash
Discombobulated ship against the tide
Satire and the damage done
A touch spicy out there — Sarah Mahina Calvello
such lovely bones charred oak — Sarah Paris
the same prayer for rain
— Mariola Grabowska
nail-bitten fingers crossed — Ravi Kiran
old wood creaks in cursive
— Jacek Margolak
St. Patrick's Day
Vote Green!
— Helen Buckingham
skylark looking for God
— Cezar Ciobîcă
rising sea not your teacup
— Sheza T.
fuel war
drivers dig deep
— Tuyet Van Do
unhinged pandora's box
— Melissa Dennison
bla
the ber moon mouth
— Joshua St. Claire
…moonsilence — Joshua St. Claire
shattered moon snail
Deep silence
A frog
Hesitates
— Anna Goluba
A morsel of malarkey
meditation slowly unfolds a leaf — Mariola Grabowska
Oiliest wheel gets squeaked
— Keith Snow
spare tired
— Nicholas De Marino
that citizenship has sailed — John Hawkhead
resetting to default gun money
— Anne Fox
Spring, sundown, guns still around.
— Chad Parenteau
spomeniks this brutal(ist) world
words & image — Debbie Strange
the voiceless
peace doves
coo.
— Lynn White
my shadow departs without apologies
— Vijay Prasad
historic
metamorphosis –
Basho’s frog
— Paul Callus
death –
imagine
all the people
making sense of the nonsense — Soumya Mukherjee
life uploaded to the cloud
— Jan Stretch
compassion arrested at the border
Thirsty
AI...
driest
earth. — Partha Sarkar
beside the point melodrama
— Stephanie Zepherelli
mountain boots outrunning a troll— Joanna Ashwell
the sense makes no truth
— Ian Willey
two-party system failure
rich white mendacity
No, More Wars
dripping
oil
— Chen-ou Liu
starfish
neither nor
— Kim Goldberg
every
poem a
jailbreak
this is not a poem — Vishal Prabhu
Code: spring
— Mykyta Ryzhykh
Circus performer eats bear
apocalypse now or never
— thomas david
everything bagel something’s always missing— thomas david
healthcare for all my delusions
— Peter Jastermsky
iso
pod
rolls by
blue
berry
— Shannon Wallace
terror cell checks and balances — Jerome Berglund
Souls?!
In THIS
market?!
— Jerome Berglund
moonshadow the rhetoric of want
— John Pappas
passing us laughing mountain stream
a stone’s throw war gods
blood moon no end in
— Sara Winteridge
gnarled tree root broken synapses
— Jessica Swafford
poking the possibly nuclear bear
— Morag Elizabeth Humble
spraying graffiti hair subway mouse
— Douglas J. Lanzo
smols poems eat like popcorn
After J. D. Nelson
More buck for your bang? — Keith Snow
the wolf eating grandma dementia
— susan burch
no goals stagnating water
The Beatles warned us
— Scott C. Holstad
the sun whispers remember.
— linda m. crate
vampires gnaw on my brain.
a moon-woman hybrid
— John Grey
measuring
eternity . . .
graveyard sundial
— Bill Waters
after you the new star
— Mona Bedi
commentary reduced to thumbs up
Nothing like mandatory nothing
— Heath Brougher
nuclear but you yawn
— Tiffany Rindler
politically correct bias
— Ravi Kiran
raven's wings painting the dusk
dusk one window still on
lost stories the mourners weep
— Pris Campbell
life’s story the unsaid
— Arvinder Kaur
all the same no apology
o
g ne
— Noah Berlatsky
questions without answers shooting stars
orbs of starburst hoyas
— Pegah Rahmati Nezhad
Stars are dizzy drunk
Turning mess into message
Censorship of spring
February
Poem from nothing — Mykyta Ryzhykh
peevishly published not accepted
his speeches all in con-text
regal sweat on cornered prey
everything is bad bunny
stars fading to nothing lasts
my life so mid life
shelling peas empty inside
— R.K. Singh
gardening shears
gloved in moonlight
— Joanna Ashwell
the snow moon
holding owl
online scrolling dead seas
— John Hawkhead
deep freeze
the air
italicized
tinkling colonies of intelligent glass
— Richard Magahiz
love my clockwork jellyfish
where
here
ere
re
e
ballot paper or scratchcard? — Oscar Luparia
snowflakes angels appear