Will There Be An Early Spring?

Days getting longer
Leaves forming on the roses
A warm breeze today

Flying grasshoppers
Swarming gnats in a circle
Is winter over?

By K. A. Williams

Winter of the World

death a memory
bodily rejuvenate
living forever

in a dying world
retreat into VR realm
anything you want

polluted cinder
myriad of stars in sky
new worlds to settle

mankind seeks new home
millennia-long journey
start over again

winter of the world
a silent finality
guttering sun dies

By DJ Tyrer

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Haiku Sequence

“The Big Bang”… then our
exploration of space for
these seven decades.

Thirteen billion years
after spatial-temporal
singularity,

with one trembling hand
we have held out a candle
into the darkness.

By David Edwards

My Sky Is Quiet

my sky is quiet
and the sun keeps to herself
a wind hugs my breath

and what the clouds saw
one happy woman smiling
in their protection

I wish to walk in
your footsteps like the shadow
following a child

with you I would go
inside a stone to find your
sharp lucidity

fall afternoon light
shaky and sparse but with you
tell me I am loved

memories awake
crowding out autumn darkness
I’ll get used to joy

tender comes the night
in your arms, tender your lips
seeking my kisses

By Ute Margaret Saine

A Haiku Series by Mark Hudson

Pink flamingoes fly
From Central America
Blue feathers and wings

Lobster being boiled
In Boston, Massachusetts
Getting his last breath

The blind man with sight
Seeks a vision in his eyes
But sees through his mind

Saturn’s closest moon
Mimas was not destroyed, it
Could’ve been a ring

A Handful of Haiku

the wind’s wings closing
over my heart stir me like
music from your heart

passing with delight
into this obscurity
each other’s embrace

a water caress
it presses and sucks on me
just like a lover

an afternoon swoon
you inhabit my body
seagulls cry for us

joyous animal
I when you discover my
formerly blind fold

nights of a woman
let the corpse lie in its best
state of splendid bliss

By Ute Margaret Saine

Christmas Cookies

“Masks again this year.”
Santa complained to the elves.
“No snacks at their house.”

Mrs. Claus came in.
“Here are insulated bags,
filled with warm cookies.”

“There’s enough for all.
Take thermoses with cocoa.
Start packing that sleigh.”

“Harness the reindeer.
Get dressed in your best red suit.
It’s now Christmas Eve!”

By K. A. Williams

Dilemma

I have worked so hard
for a bachelor’s degree
and now what to do

facing dilemma
in every choice that I face
Now I have to choose

between my career
or the highest paying job
teach or work corporate

raised to be teaching
but adulting is facing
the other options

By Emma Carriker

Halloween

Halloween is not
what everyone thinks it is
its day of the dead

more frequently known
as dia de los muertos
something mexican

A long tradition
for honouring dead family
keeping memories

and much more alive
a holiday for family
not trick or treaters

By Emma Carriker

Graduating

Graduate College
They told me I had no choice
But to be better

Than their young mistakes
I had to prove to the world
That I was the best

The best thing of both
Parents that never knew much
About growing up

By Emma Carriker