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.
Recapitulation
— Debadrita Sarkar
Sour Patch Adults — Nicholas De Marino
p a c s e — Nicholas De Marino
seeking peace
leaders prepare
war
— Tuyet Van Do
amidst aggression a serene resilience
— Olinda Ninolakis
Chicago
— Noah Berlatsky
slowly waking last night’s fly
— Susan King
dead sea trout moon — Stephen Toft
moths haunting the guitar’s silence — Stephen Toft
still the blind nightingale sings
— Stephen Toft
awakening I let dreams dream
— Veronika Zora Novak
Smudged thumbprint, moon behind clouds
— Keith Snow
newsbullet(s)in
— Helen Buckingham
Breathless-meat in a cellar
— Laila Brahmbhatt
what’s he thinking
that rabbit
— Tom Blessing
this too shall passerine
— Vandana Parashar
the moon screamed blood
— linda m. crate
winged
dawn -
pegasus
arrives
— Partha Sarkar
shutdown.
shutout.
shut.
up
shut
down— Roberta Beach Jacobson
sparks flying into stars
— Edward Cody Huddleston
where the trail ends wildflowers — Edward Cody Huddleston
space between neurons
midnight circus one clown short — baskin cooper
one after another non sequiturs— Anne Fox
more hot air breaking protocol
— Stephanie Zepherelli
exiled from the future truth
don’t know what possessed me
— John H. Dromey
valetudinarian pill popping placebos
ample chips
the raiser’s edge
trash day curbing another dream — Peter Jastermsky
clouds
winging up
full moon
— Tejendra Sherchan
pomelos too many suns
fog swallowing any insult
— Florin C. Ciobîcă
thunderbolt God
strikes again
killed by
a butterfly...
again
— Herb Tate
potpourri
dustings of distant
days — Herb Tate
net zero sum game
— Melissa Dennison
r
windshield a wipers
windshield i wipers
n
— Ruth Holzer
circling the drain blue marble
solitude semantics i me myself
— Rupa Anand
self.exe failed
— Vijay Prasad
Fire and ICE the sequel
— Mary Oishi
only
the dream is uneditable
— Matt Dennison
let’s walk around as if — Matt Dennison
wack
o
— sean g. meggeson
the time a sentence takes
— Ron Scully
Nigeria, home to many few.
— Emmanuel Ojex
meeting my balding midway
— Vishal Prabhu
empty heart
— Jennifer Gurney
silence of stars
Quantico
— Roberta Beach Jacobson
projector dreams the lumens blooming
— John Pappas
old habits die(t) hard — Cynthia Anderson
instant karma microplastics
— Cynthia Anderson
night settling arguments with sparrows
— Alan Summers
singing along
the busker's parrot — Joseph P. Wechselberger
ornithologicallyinclined
— Debbie Strange
I crow you ©raven
crows dance with me
I drink the voices of birds
— Mykyta Ryzhykh
robin's egg blue kablooey — Michael Henry Lee
home run back to stardust
— Joanna Ashwell
starry night brea(d)th in time
— Kala Ramesh
fireflies another night alone
— Rowan Beckett Minor
giving in
plot
twist
— Sarah Mahina Calvello
constipatience
— Shloka Shankar
woman’s love an orange
darning sock monkeys’ bad behavior
— Kelly Sauvage Moyer
appendix waiting for its moment
— Keith Evetts
censorshit
— petro c. k.
war economy size
White wackadudes House
— Scott Wiggerman
Dang, she did it again.
— Sarah Sarai
politics—
eating someone
else’s hunch
— Sondra J. Byrnes
spring lambs on springs
— Sherri J Moye-Dombrosky
insomnia sheep counting sheep
— Barrie Levine
insomnia counting electric sheep
— thomas david
apocalypse now
.....with zinfandel
— Mark Meyer
minimalist.....
there's
nothing
here
kiss cam a stolen base
— Chad Lee Robinson
vaccinated
stuck in the past
pop! goes the measles
— susan burch
free or speech
you choose
— Jacek Wilkos
heavy reign light on facts
— Reid Hepworth
duck duck gooseberry gin
giving
the
goose
finger
temporary housing what isn’t
To my next lover… Goodbye! — Diana Sabolee
name sliced
for
consumption
— Erin Jamieson
Stereo-typing 90 words a minute
Man
Ant of the Universe— Daniel Miltz
poems rejected traffic jams
— Lakshmi Iyer
I sip
into another world
— Ann Smith
coffee latte
my thoughts
swirl
Weather changes, body aches.
— Nolcha Fox
Marshmallows !
quantum flicker
reality bends twice
— baskin cooper
on the bridge two (r)egrets — Kenneth Pobo
comfortable in our naive languish
— Peter Jastermsky
breaking news freshly picked falsehoods
DOA toe-tagging another poem
feeling so good riddance
— Ravi Kiran