September 2019
Selectors: Coral Carter, Rose van Son and Gary De Piazzi
Submissions Manager: Jaya Penelope
Contributors:
Roger Watson
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sunrise–
parting ways with
the snowman
Adjei Agyei-Baah, Ghana /New Zealand
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daylight saving ends
the wattle birds
early call
Wanda Amos
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father’s pills
the palette of
autumn leaves
end of summer
our memories
in zip files
Debbi Antebi. London, UK
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a beetle’s back
glints with dew
more tears
Marilyn Ashbaugh
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summer afternoon
a willow touches
its shadow
late night poem the space between skyscrapers
Hifsa Ashraf
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waiting room
old magazines
and daytime soaps
chain-wire fence
the lantana
breaks free
lichen on stone
her name
in copperplate
red gums
marking
where the river ran
Gavin Austin. Sydney, Australia
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mirror sea
a garfish swims
away from the bait
Jeanie Axton. Mt Gambier, South Australia
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pear blossom
the new baby
is passed around
Dawn Bruce
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staycation
the wasp and I meet
for breakfast
Pitt Büerken. Münster, Germany
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homecoming
over the fence
one morning glory
Alanna C Burke. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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public garden
hankering to pull
the weeds
Sondra Byrnes. Santa Fe, New Mexico , USA
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tree lantern
night’s shadows
waver
sushi
under a lemon tree
he adds wasabi
metal sculpture
one pigeon roosts higher
than the tree
a needle in his arm
the moth closes
on the flame
Gary Colombo De Piazzi
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busker
throwing a coin
in the moonlight
Nikolai Grankin. Krasnodar, Russia
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drive-in theatre
Godzilla replays
on every windscreen
Simon Hanson
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watching us
as we watch him
monitor lizard
Louise Hopewell
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raking lines
in white pebbles
so many paths
Marilyn Humbert
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first coffee
a dandelion spore lands
at my feet
worried nurses
the two broken arms
of a gurney
Bee Jay
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motel window
rain brings us
the sea
Pearl Kline
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galahs take flight –
a feather shivers
in the grass
John Low
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ploughed field –
the list of things to do
starts to grow
bare branches
all the dead flowers heavy
on the grave
airport
a cloud coming in
to land
Myron Lysenko
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children side-saddle
on a pre-school see-saw
marginal seat
a rattle of stones
on the gibber plain
desert chat
Marietta McGregor
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raucous cockatoos –
the farmer’s gaze turns
to the horizon
wind-blown dune –
a green shoot through
a dead cormorant’s wing
Mark Miller
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rainbow
a promise
to myself
between two stars I count the nights
Guliz Mutlu
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at night –
they discover
a binary star
Julian O’Dea
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meditation
teaches your mind
how to use
punctuation
Martin Jon Porter
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midwinter sun
the flowering she-oak
drips pollen
turquoise sky–
shards of a robin’s egg
in the child’s palm
Lyn Reeves
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egg moon –
she tries another
pregnancy stick
backburn haze–
only the tops
of trees
front-end loader
a kookaburra waits
his turn
Cynthia Rowe
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out back bride
her dress
tinged red
Barry Sanbrook
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moonlight
over Mount Tsukuba
her pearl necklace
paved path
the carefully measured steps
of a moor hen
Maureen Sexton
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evening shadows
the ground squirrel’s
thirteen stripes
dappled light
the invisibility
of fawns
Debbie Strange. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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spiders web
in the spokes of a wheelchair
a fly
Barbara Tate
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five storey oak
cousins on branches
of our family tree
Jahan Tyson
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hip nudged against hip
she prods her iPod
he hugs his Kindle
Julia Wakefield
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lilac blossom
sweet scent with just a hint
of wheelie bin
Roger Watson
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