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

Royal Rhodes

 

dooby do be dubious

John H. Dromey



periodic tables occasional chairs

John H. Dromey

 

Little birds thrown in storms

Sarah Mahina Calvello



Beautiful but concerning sky trash


— Sarah Mahina Calvello



Discombobulated ship against the tide

Sarah Mahina Calvello



Satire and the damage done

Sarah Mahina Calvello



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

Joshua St. Claire

 

Deep silence

A frog

Hesitates


— Anna Goluba

 

A morsel of malarkey


— Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

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

Paul Callus

 

making sense of the nonsense


Soumya Mukherjee

 

life uploaded to the cloud


— Jan Stretch


 

compassion arrested at the border


Jan Stretch

 

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

Ian Willey



rich white mendacity

Ian Willey

 

No, More Wars

    dripping

    oil

Chen-ou Liu

 

starfish

neither nor

Kim Goldberg



every

poem a

                  jailbreak

Kim Goldberg

 

this is not a poem


Vishal Prabhu

 

Code: spring


Mykyta Ryzhykh



Circus performer eats bear


Mykyta Ryzhykh

 

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

John Pappas

 

a stone’s throw war gods

Anne Fox

 

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

Keith Snow

           After J. D. Nelson



More buck for your bang?

 
Keith Snow

 

the wolf eating grandma dementia

susan burch



no goals stagnating water

susan burch

 

The Beatles warned us


Scott C. Holstad

 

the sun whispers remember.

linda m. crate



vampires gnaw on my brain.

linda m. crate

 

a moon-woman hybrid

John Grey

 

measuring

eternity . . .

graveyard sundial

Bill Waters

 

after you the new star

Mona Bedi

 

commentary

reduced to

thumbs up

Shannon Wallace

 

Nothing like mandatory nothing

Heath Brougher

 

nuclear but you yawn

Tiffany Rindler

 

politically correct bias


— Ravi Kiran



raven's wings painting the dusk


— Ravi Kiran

 

dusk

one window still on

Jacek Margolak

 

lost stories the mourners weep

Pris Campbell

 

life’s story       the unsaid

Arvinder Kaur



all the same no apology

Arvinder Kaur

 

  o

g  ne

Noah Berlatsky

 

questions without answers shooting stars

Alvin B. Cruz

 

orbs of starburst hoyas

Pegah Rahmati Nezhad

 

Stars are dizzy drunk

Sarah Mahina Calvello



Turning mess into message

Sarah Mahina Calvello


Censorship of spring

February

Mykyta Ryzhykh



Poem from nothing


Mykyta Ryzhykh

 

peevishly published not accepted

dan smith



his speeches all in con-text

dan smith

 

regal sweat on cornered prey

Melissa Dennison

 

everything is bad bunny

Ian Willey



stars fading to nothing lasts

Ian Willey



my life so mid life

Ian Willey

 

shelling peas empty inside

R.K. Singh

 

gardening shears

gloved in moonlight

Joanna Ashwell



the snow moon

holding owl

Joanna Ashwell

 

online scrolling dead seas

John Hawkhead

 

deep freeze

the air

italicized

John Pappas

 

tinkling colonies of intelligent glass

Richard Magahiz



love my clockwork jellyfish

Richard Magahiz

 

where

here

ere

re

e

Noah Berlatsky

 

ballot paper or scratchcard?


— Oscar Luparia

 

snowflakes

angels appear

Cezar Ciobîcă