September 2022
Selectors: Coral Carter, Rose van Son and Gary De Piazzi
Contributors
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summer drizzle—
a young starling preens
its feathers
countryside hotel
sharing my salad
with the bumblebees
chicken soup
with a dash of saffron
winter twilight
Hifsa Ashraf
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curve
of a palm frond
the heron’s neck
stencilling
the winter sky
bare branches
Gavin Austin
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well-thumbed Bible
a WW1 postcard
speaks of love
windy hilltop
father a child again
flying his kite
dipping a shoulder
for the field mouse
scarecrow
Ingrid Baluchi
North Macedonia
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wind change
a magpie points its beak
to the clouds
last sun rays
a casuarina cone drops
into the lake
Sabrina Blom
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end of summer
the squeak of sandals
on wet tiles
father’s access day
a wind takes the petals
too soon
Nathalie Buckland
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at the fish booth
all eyes
on me
Pitt Büerken
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vibrating windows
hailstones bounce
on a trampoline
Rohan Buettel
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perfect holiday
matching the bookmark
to the book
Alanna C Burke
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rememberance day
replacing medals
with poppies
Christopher Calvin
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piano
soft to touch—
piano
at sunset
a gull’s wing turns pink
crow remains the same
Coral Carter
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clear felling—
the matchsticks that were
trees
worn shoes—
only grey-haired cobblers
left
Gary Colombo De Piazzi
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understanding
your silence …
daffodils
mother’s visit—
the part of me
she never knew
school reopening
old faces
new masks
math problem
the time it takes …
infinity
Alvin B. Cruz
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fig jam
the figs I used
to sketch
Maya Daneva
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morning breeze
blue herons fly
wing to wing
Goran Gatalica
Zagreb, Croatia
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a yoga mat
slung over every shoulder
Fitzroy Saturday
Louise Hopewell
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watermelon seeds—
as countless as
my thoughts
Neera Kashyap
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neighborhood stray
fostering community
among strangers
Chris Langer
Stephenville, Texas, USA
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winter morning –
the warmth of
her memory
John Low
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cleaning my husband’s room
I find his puzzle book
words missing
the x-ray
of sadness showed
broken trust
Mardi May
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windshear
cockatoos across
a violet sky
school sports …
magpies marshalling
the stragglers
table talk …
sparrows scavenge
for crumbs
Jo McInerney
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first light
on the ridge
kangaroos
Leanne Mumford
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pink and greys
clowning on the high wire
circus poster
Jan Napier
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the hare’s nightmare
tortoise wins
again and again
learning to like
the unlikeable
sauerkraut
summer grass
how easily
memories fade
Nika
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constable clouds
the stylist applies colour
to my hair
winter park
for all to see
the birch’s scars
Polona Oblok
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spring rain
around the grain silo
smiling faces
Gregory Piko
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old temple –
the old prayer
of an old monk
hot noon—
the quickening pace
of a water carrier
rosella jam—
my child frightens me
with a Dracula mouth
Milan Rajkumar
Imphal, India
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puppet show—
is my life
any different
S. Ramachandran
Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
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riverside walk
scents of wattle
through my mask
day off
brown river gliding
to the sea
Duncan Richardson
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half marathon
my old dog folds himself
into a yawn
moorhen
a late sun tracks
the footprints
Cynthia Rowe
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a lawyer
drags
his brief
Barry Sanbrook
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messy, spiky
green and yellow
my son’s new hairdo
Tom Staudt
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my fourth decade
the unanswered prayers
of a rosary
Joshua St. Clair
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everywhere
these ants –
my rain forecasters
Tony Steven Williams
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paper boat
a spider sails across
the pond
in memoriam
a drift of shells
at low tide
Debbie Strange
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pushing me
in gym class
first crush
C X Turner
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at the airport …
you waiting your flight
and me your return
Steliana Cristina Voicu
Ploiesti, Romania
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sun and moon together dandelion
Alice Wanderer
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spiral garden
we follow it in
we follow it out
Bill Waters
Pennington, New Jersey, U.S.A.
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morning mist
only the ears of the wallaby
mark the trail
winter rain
a little girl is teaching
her doll to make tea
Gail Willems
Back to top
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forest stream
how softly
she whispers
pink umbrella
the raindrops join us
hip to hip
now and then
that smile of yours
from forty years ago
Tony Williams
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bat colony
squabbles start
at dusk
Quendryth Young
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