Poets! Our PUSHCART Prize nominees!... from print issue #162, Cathy Porter!, and, Judith Partin-Nielsen! from #163, r. soos! from #164, Peggy Dugan French! from #165, t. kilgore splake!, and, from #166, Patricia Carragon!...

   

 Assistant editors Frosty and Tama, "Our PUSHCART Prize nominees, Mister Editor!  We would have chosen 60 instead of 6, if we could have, yet! Special treats for everyone!"...

             PUSHCART Prize nominees:

poet Cathy Porter, Omaha, Nebraska...

                      Roses in the snow

                      Defy the calendar

                      Rebels with a cause

poet Judith Partin-Nielsen, Longmont, Colorado...

             The Hope of It

                   Where is the beauty, the Hope

                   in the horror it it, you ask.

                   Underneath a hard, bitter

                   casement of seed is there

                   an invisible bloom, a bud

                   not yet conceived --

                   a fragrance only in

                   the mind's eye

                   Are we the Hope of it?

         poet r. soos, Joshua Tree, California...

                                               thought

                             fragile cloud balanced

                                  precariously inside

                                 the dances I dream

      poet Peggy Dugan French, Cardiff, California...

                 Simple blue vase

                                The white flowers

                                        Quiet magic

   poet t. kilgore splake, Calumet, Michigan...

                   solving serious problems

                  wise men building bridges

                     foolish erecting walls

   poet Patricia Carragon, Brooklyn, New York...

                       faucet waterfall

                       thinking of cats and haiku

                       while brushing my teeth

                        see you in a moment...

and, you can mail your poetry to:

                bear creek haiku

                PO Box 596

                Longmont, CO

                80502   

                USA   

                (SASE's are appreciated)

From other than the USA, email to darylayaz@gmail.com and/or 

                  darylayaz@me.com (include postal address)

Last!  If you choose to send poetry via email from within the US, that's ok, too (again, include postal address)

                        

poets!... Wilda Morris, Shõichi Taneda, Carl Mayfield and Candice Kjobech, Mary O'Keefe Brady, Julie A. Dickson, Ed Markowski, t. kilgore splake, Robert Beveridge, and r. soos!...

 

Noble assistant editor Tama, mewing, insistently!... "Poetry, Mister Editor! Kitties, people, and! even the noisy dog next door, we all need poetry!  And then, treats!"

So true, noble assistant!  And! We'll begin

    with the poetry of Wilda Morris,                 from Bolingbrook, Illinois!...

           gander pecking

          on the glass door                      INSOMNIA

          no answer              

                                                     my brain refuses

          Bipsy leaps                               to log off

             to my shoulder  cat hair            for the night

                in the pudding

 poets Carl Mayfield and Candice Kjobech,                                                     of Rio Rancho, New Mexico!...

   11th Avenue in the Milky Way      

               Lightning and thunder, evening rain

               staying close to the mountains.

               last light lifts off the sage,          

               house settling into silence.

               No letter from home for years now,

               then remembering I am home.

       poet Julie A. Dickson, Exeter, New Hampshire...

A child of morning            Smudged clouds, crimson streaks

Living hours of a farmer      Sunset, finale, closure

Energized by light              I prefer sunrise

         poet Ed Markowski, Auburn Hills, Michigan...

Autumn magic                               a stray cat

  rising from a pile of orange leaves       it's tail curls into

          an orange cat                          a ?                                       

     

         poet t. kilgore splake, Calumet, Michigan...

          climbing hills summit

           walking meditation         han shan's ghost

          peaceful solitary steps     broom sweeping up

                                           invisible haikus

                    late evening darkness

                  outside in my underwear

               watching stars falling to earth

             poet Robert Beveridge, Akron, Ohio...

    our friends are our friends         apple butter

    whether they walk on two legs      challah in the oven

    or they walk on four                 sundown approaches

             poet r. soos, Joshua Tree, California...      

                      see you in a moment...

and, you can mail your poetry to:

                bear creek haiku

                PO Box 596

                Longmont, CO

                80502   

                USA   

                (SASE's are appreciated)

From other than the USA, email to darylayaz@gmail.com and/or 

                  darylayaz@me.com (include postal address)

Last!  If you choose to send poetry via email from within the US, that's ok, too (again, include postal address)