masquerade ball
under the makeup
my wrinkles
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Archana Kapoor Nagpal is an internationally published author of books including 14 Pearls of Inspiration, The Road to a Positive Life, The Fragrance of a Beautiful Life, A Pinch of Love, Peace and Humanity, New Love: Anthology of Short Stories and The 12 Facets of a Crystal. Please visit her author page to learn more.
a single cloud
grazes over another
in an azure sky
the nothing and everything
of my moods
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Shloka Shankar is a freelance writer from India. She loves experimenting with all forms of the written word, and has found her niche in Japanese short-forms and found poetry. Her works have recently appeared in Silver Birch Press, Eunoia Review, Oddball Magazine, Poetry WTF?!, Of/with and so on. She is also the founding editor of the literary & arts journal, Sonic Boom.
moving sale
we make a bunch
of new friends
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Sheila Sondik is a printmaker and poet in Bellingham, WA. Her poetry has appeared in many journals and anthologies and, in 2013, Egress Studio Press published her chapbook, Fishing a Familiar Pond: Found Poetry from the Yearling. Her website is sheilasondik.com
playing my guitar
an old song I remember
but my fingers don’t
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Brian Robertson has been writing haiku throughout the years, years which have seen him spend time at a Buddhist Monastery or two, write Little Blues Book illustrated by R. Crumb and creating several albums of his original blues music and more.
old broken gate—
a length of twisted wire
keeps the handle down
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Brian Robertson’s various books include Little Blues Book illustrated by the infamous R. Crumb. Blues albums include Big Ass Buick (now free on Youtube.com) His most recent haiku book is Bus Stop Haiku.
I confess
my love to
the wind
hawthorn blossoms
falling at your feet
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Caroline Skanne is obsessed with anything wild and free. She is the editor of hedgerow: a journal of small poems. Her book a hundred poems by caroline skanne is available from Amazon.
pick-your-own —
my daughter chases a boy
through the strawberry fields
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Julie Bloss Kelsey enjoys writing short-form poetry. Her work has been published in tinywords, The Heron’s Nest, Under the Basho, and other fine places. Visit her on Twitter @MamaJoules.
waxing moon —
in my cousin’s cigar box
a flash drive
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Eric Burke lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he works as a computer programmer. More of his poems can be found in Pine Hills Review, PANK, Thrush Poetry Journal, PoetsArtists, bluestem, Escape Into Life, decomP, A cappella Zoo, and Weave Magazine. Poetry videos made from several of his poems can be viewed at The Poetry Storehouse. You can keep up with him at his blog Anomalocrinus Incurvus.
crescent moon–
I press your yellow rose
in Revelations
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Texas native Laurie Kolp, author of Upon the Blue Couch (Winter Goose Publishing, 2014), serves as president of Texas Gulf Coast Writers and gathers monthly with local members of the Poetry Society of Texas. Laurie’s poems have appeared in more than four dozen print and online journals including Blue Fifth Review, the 2015 Poet’s Market and Pirene’s Fountain. You can find out more about Laurie on her website, lauriekolp.com.
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Angie Werren lives (and writes) in a tiny house in Ohio. Sometimes she takes pictures of things in the yard.
