our friends, their fine poetry: James B. Peters, Toma Rosen, Carl Mayfield, Patricia Carragon, Peggy Dugan French, Joanna Weston, Ndongolera C. Mwangupili, Rex Sexton, and! Judith Partin-Nielsen

A stream                              old dog stares
runs through the valley,             long and questionly
Bits of comfort                       into the
Are found                                stove's beckoning flames
In kind words
                                         a quiet moof of melancholy
  James B. Peters
  Cottontown, Tennessee                                      Toma Rosen
                                                          Mt Baldy Zen Center, California

poets were selected by noble assistant editors Frosty and Tama:

  line in the sand-                         somewhere nearby
     whip snake                                  a rooster
easing under the gate                     gives it another try

                            Carl Mayfield
                                     Rio Rancho, New Mexico


Tama:  "mister editor, we                                

never include a picture
of you in our posts"
Frosty:  "how 'bout it?"
here you are, noble assistants...


         Judith, suggesting
         "that picture looks very familiar..."



mosquito lovefest
scratching my way
through summer

                        behind Brooklyn Bridge
                        walls of gray mist hide skyline
                        delusional rain

                                                  like cat's eyes
                                                  doors to inner peace
                                                  open and shut

Patricia Carragon  Brooklyn, New York
                                              Tama:  "gotta love Brooklyn"

                       haiga by Tama, Frosty, Judith


spots of fur                                          

still cover spaces
where you used to sleep
now
only a memory exist

Peggy Dugan French
     Cardiff, California


Savannah, we're missing you...




connecting flight your hand in mine

Joanna Weston  Shawnigan lake, British Columbia, Canada

                                            

You

Like light

throwing its rays,

you shine.

Like wind,

you blow away

worries.

Like seed,

you blossom

new living.

Ndongolera C. Mwangupili

       Mzuzu, Malawi

                                              

                                              

                                              haiga by Judith Partin-Nielsen
                                                      Longmont, Colorado

art by Rex Sexton... 

of you, Rex.

                      Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider)

                      Blues, oh so blue

                      bluesman, Blues Brothers

                      Blessed Virgin blue -

                      blue wave, blue

                      dolphin riding - blue -

                      blue, Stevie Ray blue

                      guitar and blow that sax

                      jazz man bluesman,

                      blue, blue bluer than

                      that cold blue night

                      blue moon, blue Miles

                      blowing that blue Bitches

                      Brew, Kind of Blue, blue

                      rain, Blue Note - blue trumpet

                      blowing blue, blue

                      and so gone, gone and

                      blue blown blues away

                                               poet Judith Partin-Nielsen




see you in a moment


ayaz daryl nielsen


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