“Sea Spells” by Angelina Bong

Sea Spells

Songstress serenades sailor

Sunset
She
Slips
Silk
Sunset
Sail
Sews
Sonnet
Sunset

Sailor serenades songstress

Angelina Bong
6/27/2016

“Coming of age” and “Those that throw stones” by Barbara Turney Wieland

Coming of age

laid bare in declining years
slack
lackluster
acts
dropped
slack
drooping
truth
naked
slack
in declining years laid bare

***

Those that throw stones

stone teardrop tears the silence
cracked
patter
peace
shattered
cracked
mirror
cried
pride
cracked
stone-silence tears the tear: drops

Barbara Turney Wieland
6/24/2016

 

“Solo” by Elizabeth Robin

Solo

bluejays squawk a tango, as if their duende dies in the downpour
mourning
past
rains,
souls
mourning
futures
screamed
empty,
mourning
as if bluejays pour a tango down duendes, and their squawks die

Elizabeth Robin
6/23/2016

“The Greatest” by Brenda Kay Ledford

(Getty Images)

The Greatest

Muhammad Ali got up after a knockdown, shook the world.
fists
fury
black
confident
fists
America
playful
Parkinson’s
fists
Muhammad Ali got up after a knockdown, shook the world.

Brenda Kay Ledford
6/21/2016

“Morning Table” by Angelina Bong

Morning Table

Squabbles spoil morning spirit
Breakfast
Coffee
Spills
Insults
Breakfast
Furious
Eggs
Fly
Breakfast
Morning squabbles spoil spirit

Angelina Bong
6/22/2016

“Heels” by L.D. Barnes

Heels

Short girls in tall shoes
Beauty
Demands
High
Standards
Beauty
Lowers
Standard
Demands
Beauty
Tall Girls in short shoes.

L.D. Barnes
6/21/2016

 

“In the Summertime” by Marjorie Tavistock

In the Summertime

Thoughts hang like ripe juicy peaches in the summertime
Sweet
Succulent
Tempting
Sighs ~
Sweet
Speech
Bruised
Lies ~
Sweet
Peaches hang like ripe juicy thoughts in the summertime

Marjorie Tavistock
6/21/2016

“summer solstice” by Ingrid Bruck

summer solstice

a fairy ring, solstice fire around the full moon

bonfire
midsummer
cloud
dance
bonfire
reflects
in
eyes
bonfire

solstice fire, a fairy ring around the full moon

Ingrid Bruck
6/19/2016

 

“Love you Johnny” by Merryn Juliette

Love you Johnny

Never trust a junkie with your cash

Lies
Sneaking
Sly
Smiling
Lies
Flying
High
dying
Lies

Never trust your cash with a junkie

Merryn Juliette
6/18/2016

“sun & shadows” by Ingrid Bruck

sun & shadows

sun casts out shadows
fierce
backlit
emerald
radiance
fierce
dark
cave
underbrush
fierce
shadows cast out sun

Ingrid Bruck
6/18/2016