Poets!... Anthony Ward, Dennis Rhodes, t. kilgore splake, James B. Peters, r. soos, Judith Partin Nielsen, Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo, Peggy Dugan French, John McDonald, and Alan Catlin!...

Noble assistant editor Kitty Kali and her     love of poetry, mewwwing, "Let's just do it!"

from poet Anthony Ward, Durham, England...

   Winter pansies

   Flowering throughout the year

   Without a care

                      Silhouette of the sycamore

                      Surrounded by mists

                      Standing to catch my breath

     poet Dennis Rhodes, Naples, Florida...

                   breakthrough

                In an onslaught of

                momentary madness,         

               I came to love myself.

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

      beside brautigan creek

    poet lost in steady currents

     flowing through his bones

                           light spring breeze

                          soft pine needles hum

                            creative spirit alive

           poems dropped in water

       ripples continuously spreading

        emotions traveling everywhere

 poet James B. Peters, Cottontown, Tennessee...

       blades of grass

       like growing children

       struggling

       among the fallen leaves

       of life

                            all the birds

                            of many species

                            vie for space

                            at the feeder--

                            as do we humans

       poet Judith Partin Nielsen, Longmont, Colorado...

      Wedding Dress

      wedding dress still hanging

      in the back of the closet

      all these glorious years

                               things unfold

                               as they do

                               and even in that

                               there is

                               a special beauty

             coulda, woulda, shoulda

                 ringa, dinga, clinga

                        la madré

 poet Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo, Bombon, Singapore...

            half agony

            half hope

            love unrequited

            isn't

            speechless

                        all who come before

                        all who come after         

                        the smell

                        of newly washed

                        sheets

 poet Peggy Dugan French, Cardiff, California...

                  A Winter Night

            inside

             the room is dark

             a candle burns

             we are very familiar

                         outside

                          the night stirs

                          trees rustle

                          stars shimmer

     time unfolds quickly

     we age

     we ebb and flow

     like a river

     us two

 poet John McDonald, Edinburgh, Scotland...                        ...SCOTS HAIKU...

 wunter morning -    winter morning - 

 a greens caw          a friend's greetings

 i the set o's breath    in the shape of his breath

       heavin up airlie -       rising early -

       the muin                  the moon

       aye leanin                still reclining

           voar's             spring's

           firie funtains    fiery fountains

           gean trees        cherry trees

   poet Alan Catlin, Schenectady, New York...

           February

   Wind all day and night.

   Near record lows all week;

   Winter without end.

                        Navigating the Interior

                        Low sky crowded

                        with flocking crows.

                        Flying East toward 

                        the park.

                        Same time every      

                        evening.

          

 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 

                   (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!... Peggy Dugan French, Judith Partin Nielsen, Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo, Cathy Porter, Nancy Dahl, Peggy and Hafiz, and, Judith Partin Nielsen!...

 from poet and editor Peggy Dugan French!...

      poet Judith Partin Nielsen, Longmont, Colorado...

         "Please Close the Sky"

                    for Volodymr Zelensky

             "Please close the sky"

              as buildings fall

              blood runs on the ground

              our breath, strangled

              by grief and terror

              clouds of tears block

              a new moon vision

              so "please close the sky"

              that birds will fly

              and sing at sunrise

              voices of courage

              will rise on the wind

              and mark our path

              so "please close the sky"

        

     poet Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo, Bombon, Philippines...

       meteor shower

       counting on his promise

       thanking my lucky stars

                        spring at my door

                        quietly knocking

                        louder than the din

                        of you

                        inside my heart

      poet Cathy Porter, Omaha, Nebraska...

    Pink sunsets

    A hard act to follow

    Even for the stars

                           Arctic winter

                           Fields of summer

                           Dance through my head

           Home renovations

           A long ramp

           Our new reality

    poet Nancy Dahl, Ypsilanti, Michigan...

     white paper

     asking poet's

     to write to them

                           no grammar required

                           writing poetry

                           just from the heart

       seeing the swans on the lake

       just sitting on water

       that is enough for peace on earth

     poet Peggy Dugan French and Hafiz...

        and, poet Judith Partin Nielsen...

            Winter Buddha

              Statue of Buddha

               sits peacefully

               beside the front door

               now wearing a crown

               of freshly blown snow

 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 

                   (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!... Patricia Carragon, Kelley Jean White's Hannah, Mo, and Sassy!, Cathy Porter, John McDonald, Sarah Mahina Calvello, Picasso, Peggy Dugan French, and t. kilgore splake!

Assistant Editors Tama, Frosty, and Kitty Kali: "Poetry, Mister Editor!  All people, all kitties, even noisy Binky, dachshund next door, need their poetry, Mister Editor!"...

So true, noble assistants! And we'll begin with that Brooklyn girl, Patricia Carragon...

   leaves crunch

   melodies meander       cat licks window

   into mist                  but cannot taste

                               snowflake tears

            December blizzard

            Currier and Ives decor

            Brooklyn wonderland

Three Christmas's ago, poet and wonder woman Kelley Jean White rescued three abandoned little kitties - loved and cared for, here are Hannah, Mo, and that Sassy today, snoozing under their Christmas tree!...

      poet Cathy Porter, Omaha, Nebraska...

                     In your eyes

                     Every reason

                     To stay

  poet John McDonald, Edinburgh, Scotland...   haiku in Scots...

blin smoor -            snowdrift            

the swans hae cookit   the swans have banished

...till they muive         ...until they move

     on the wunter tree     on the winter tree

     a flourish               a blossom

     o blue bonnets         of blue tits

poet Sarah Mahina Calvello, San Francisco, California...

  I cannot explain what's happening or the rise

  of joy.  But I say Yes.  Yes to everything.

poet Picasso...

Of a certainty the man who can see  all creatures in himself, himself in all creatures, knows no sorrow.

 poet Peggy Dugan French, Cardiff, California...

        old moon...new love...twilight

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

        alone in wilderness

sensing presence of higher power

      quiet beauty and peace

                      thrum of brain and heart

                      tingling energetic tension

                         feeling birth of poem

         season of long white

        seeking winter warmth

         close to lover's heart

 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 

                   (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!... Mary Jo Balistreri, John McDonald, Pawel Markiewicz, Judith Partin Nielsen, Rochelle Cohen, Ian Mullins, Dennis Rhodes, and, Cynthia Sidrane!...

Noble assistant editor Kitty Kali, mewwwing, incessantly!...      "Poetry, Mister Editor!   Kitties, people, and critters of all kinds need their poetry, Mister Editor!"...

  So true, noble assistant!       Let us begin...

poet Mary Jo Balistreri, Waukesha, Wisconsin...

A Letter to Great-Gramma Belle

You taught me to pay attention to the small, the over-looked.  Gardening at your side, I saw you mix poverty and loss into the soil, making beds, dark and rich.  Seeds sprouted and bloomed--bachelor buttons, nasturtiums, the heavenly blues you call "granny vines."

          The bellflower I still call You.

                           telling

                        there is a story

                a legend of happiness

                        as the sun rises

                         within 

           one day I'll travel

with the wind now lingering

               silently waiting

poet John McDonald, Edinburgh, Scotland...                          (haiku in Scots)...

  reengin the bath                   

  fir yestreen's attercap

  ...he goves frae the ceilin

                       searching the bath

                       for yesterday's spider

                       ...he gazes from the ceiling

jivin

grandfaither an grandochter

...tuba an clarinet wyvein

                 jiving 

                 grandfather and grand-daughter

                 ...tuba and clarinet weaving

   poet Pawel Markiewicz, Podlaski, Poland...

from the dazzling morns

till evenings - spiders at work

picturesque webs

                 the first autumn rain

                 spider's heart in rhythm of drops

                 nature awaken

      poet Judith Partin Nielsen, Longmont, Colorado...

    "Sugar Wolf loves u"

    homeless poet leaves

    his calling card --

    back side of the postal box

                   The Hope Of It

                   Where is the beauty, the Hope

                   in the horror of 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 Rochelle Cohen, Marlton, New Jersey...

              ForaminifeRap

             Gangs leave their scars

              As painted scrawls

              On subway cars

              Names that will scream

              for eternity

              I'm not a dream

              I'm reality

              A long time ago     

              Gangs of single cells

              Left a lime logo

              In the shape of shells

              On pyramids and Dover cliffs

              In the bust of Queen Nefertiti

              Nature wrote to us hieroglyphs

              Foraminifera graffiti

   poet Ian Mullins, Liverpool, England...

      foaming up

      cappuccino moon

      clouding my coffee

                 another long day--

                 she stops at the school gates

                 raises her skirt another inch

     poet Dennis Rhodes, Naples, Florida...

     Tornado warning.

     If you choose to ignore one,

     That's just twisted.

                  In my next life

                  I'm coming back as a book.

                  Hardcover.  Cloth bound.

                  You'll recognize me.

                  I'll be the one that keeps

                  You up all night.

  poet Cynthia Sidrane, Phoenix, Arizona...

 mockingbird at dawn

 cajoles the moon from the sky

 chatting the sun up

            Poetry of Trees

            certain words know how

            to calm a restless spirit

            when the storm passes

            soft whispers of mist through trees

            rivulets down leaves

            tapping wet ground

 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 

                   (include postal address)

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