Poets!... Peggy Dugan French, Zvi A. Sesling, pl. wick, Kelley Jean White's Hannah, Mo, and Sassy, Mary Jo Balistreri, Minal Sarosh, and, Richa Sharma!...

  Assistant editor Kitty Kali, MEWING insistently!  "Poetry, Mister Editor!  Poetry from our poets!       and then!...    Treats for everyone!"

 poet Peggy Dugan French, Cardiff, California (also our dear friend!)...

    spring arrives

    sweet daffodil

    smiling in the breeze

                          Picasso by the door

                       it's been there for decades

                       a simple gesture

                       flowers

                       from one to another

    poet Zvi A. Sesling,               

                       Brookline, Massachusetts...

    Elephant

    In the                    Picture

    Room says nothing     on wall

                               hangs so quietly

        poet pl. wick, from the banks                              of Bard Creek, Colorado...

            exhausted

            the meadow grasses

            goldenrod and corn cockles

            wearily bend their parched

            shoulders

            lowering their heads to

            the August soil

            summer's

              coming to a close...               

        

 Kelley's kitties Hannah, Mo, and Sassy, their happy home!  "Thank you, Kelley Jean White!" mews assistant editor Frosty... 

poet Mary Jo Balistreri, Waukesha, Wisconsin... 

stretching my length

across the windowsill

I meow         

                        pen scratching

                        a while of no-see-ums

                        across paper

 my husband waves from the shirt on the line

   poet Minal Sarosh, Gujarat,              India...

 noon sun

 the frog's croak echoes

 in the well

            city citizen

            the sparrow flies in

            with twigs

       morning mist

       a heart on the

       train window

  and, poet Richa Sharma!               

          peaches...

      in a bowl of

      evening contentment

                      scent of dusk

                      cherry blossoms lit up

                      by lanterns

                 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!...Donna J. Ernsdorf, and, t. kilgore splake!...

 Noble assistant editors, and, visitors! During my daily walk, I found this fascinating poetry book, by Donna J. Ernsdorf, perched upon                           a fence post!...

  

  poet Donna J. Ernsdorf,        Los Angeles, California...

     Stone Memories

      stones skim

      flat against water

      that ripples out

      like memories

      monsters stray

      an iridescent blur

      from my dreams

      and reside in Hell

      monsters meet

      with dinosaur bones

      and fossilize    

                            while walking through

                            the next millennia

Poet Donna J. Ernsdorf, born 1932 in Los Angeles (during the Great Depression), after raising five children, began writing poetry: "Her greatest delight was giving readings for groups." She passed on in 1998, and, beyond this poetry book (found on fence post), I know nothing more about her, other than gracious, caring, and very worthy mother, lady, poet!...

                 Poetry Reading

                      a poetry reading

                 is an intellectual

                 confinement of words

                 break away from

                 downward looks

                 and spurious hooks

                 the birds sing

                 loud and clear

                 communicate...

                 climb a tree

                 to sing your verse

                 the treetops may be

                 heard to sing

                 a line or two of rhyme.

Noble assistant editor Kitty Kali, mewing, "Mister Editor, please let me update us on poet t. kilgore splake!"

Yes, noble assistant, tell us about the remarkable t. kilgore!

t. kilgore splake, Calumet, Michigan,    has published 150 worthy and very readable poetry books!          Here is his 150th?!?!...

                  pages of splake

              light afternoon breeze 

               soft pine needle hum

                 depositing poems

                 in brautigan creek

                 pieces of my heart

                slowly floating away

      starving artist memories

       remembering hard times

        missing intense energy

         brain madly dancing

                  graybeard memories

                    sock hop romances

                  sinatra presenting love

                    "night and day" 45

                 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!... Ram Chandran, Peggy Dugan French, Joe Sebastian, Sarah Mahina Calvello, Judith Nielsen, John Parsons, Peter Vetrano, Juanita Torrence-Thompson, Mona Bedi, and John McDonald!...

  

Assistant Editor Kitty Kali, insistently mewing,  "Poetry, Mister Editor!  Kitties and people's need their poetry, and! We did not create even one post this past July!  Poetry, Mister Editor, we need poetry!"

   Yes, Kali, so true!... and let's begin with:

   poet Ram Chandran, Madurai, India...

      in starlight...

      searching             slowly

      my lost dreams.     receding mist

                              mountain shows up

                  heard this song

                  many times

                  ma's favorite

poet Peggy Dugan French, Cardiff, California...

       every moment

       so precious

       a gem -

       sometimes silky smooth

       sometimes raw and rough

                       looks of love

                       how they change

                       with the passage of time

   poet Joe Sebastian, Chennai, India... 

  

    Elephant

    In the                     Picture              

    Room says nothing      on wall

                                hangs so quietly

             ginko walk

             a sudden shower

             of gulmohur blossoms

     (gulmohur-Delonix regia is a species of flowering plant noted for its fern-like leaves and flamboyant display of orange-red flowers                                  in Summer in India)

   poet Sarah Mahina Calvello,           

                       San Francisco, California...

  Laughter chimes out

  The musty smell of pine trees

  Brown leaves turning

                             Coffee held

                             Warmth on skin grows                                Light between darkness

 

  poet Judith Nielsen, Longmont, Colorado...

               like a poem written

                in a book of sand

                 the fragile beauty

                    of our lives

    poet John Parsons, East Sussex, Hastings,                       United Kingdom...

 deleting emails

 page by page             difficulty standing

 a lost friend's name    buffeted by memories

 gone forever             of similar blasts

                             on this same hill

                             blank pages flapping

    poet Peter Vetrano, Alhambra, California...

'Dad, when I'm your age, will you still be alive?'

            "I'll try son...I'll really try."

       poet Juanita Torrence-Thompson,                          Bayside, New York...

            SUMMER

            Lazy summer days

            We spread soft blankets

            Over nature's fuzzy lime carpet

            Slurp popsicles, feed ants.

         poet Mona Bedi, Delhi, India...

      temple door

      I catch a glimpse of the deity

      smiling at me

                        summetime

                        children play hopscotch

                        on the dappled sunlight

              pandemic lessons

              I teach my grandmother

              how to  use Skype

   poet John McDonald, Edinburgh, Scotland...

               (in English and Scots)

      Canada geese

      have dropped in -

      arctic winds in their wings

                    Canada geese

                    hae drapt by -

                    arctic wunds i thair weengs

     trains heading north

     echo in the arch

     he sleeps under

                         trains airtin northart

                         echa i the airch

                         he covers under

                 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)