descending snowflakes
the battlefield
white again


the ascent
of the orange moon –
a dinghy bobs near shore


an old spade
washed to the shore
picked up again


June sunset
ochre cliffs slide
into the ocean


All Souls Day –
night sky alive with
white flares

-- Kara Craig (Ireland)




on one side
of the music school's fence –
trumpet vines


botanical garden...
the zigzag path
of spring


Neighbourhood Watch
a full moon peeks
through each window

-- Vuong Pham (Australia)




sudden storm
a red deck umbrella
lifts in the wind


evening calm
picking cockleburs
from the dog

-- Ben Moeller-Gaa (USA)




first dip
of the tilt-a-wheel
camellias


birthday
she asks why parsley
is biennial

-- Bill Cooper (USA)




Normandy beach
an armada of geese
turn toward shore


the bad part of town –
through pavement cracks,
wild flowers

-- Jay Friedenberg (USA)




poolside
the rescued wasp
dries its wings


my garden path
an assortment
of droppings

-- Quendryth Young (Australia)




monkey house
my daughter clambers
out of her buggy


hand in hand
we walk in the shadows . . .
split-open chestnuts

-- John McManus (England)




light frost
a flock of starlings across
the gibbous moon


all the things
I meant to do –
falling leaves

-- Juliet Wilson (Scotland)




war museum
children skip stones
across the pond


winter stars –
the mailbox
empty

-- Bouwe Brouwer (the Netherlands)




dipping sun
daylilies begin
to wrap up

-- John Zheng (USA)




lost memory found –
the smell of wood smoke
on the autumn breeze

-- Joseph M. Kusmiss (USA)




dusk… the homeless
gather on the porch
of an abandoned house

-- Scott Owens (USA)




early morning light
across the backwaters –
beavers working

-- Ayaz Daryl Nielsen (USA)




black and white photo
my father
younger than my son

-- Mel Goldberg (Mexico – USA)




first day of spring
running shoes laced
with cobwebs

-- Jim Davis (USA)




full moon night
a leaf spins
under the waterfall

-- Kath Abela Wilson (USA)




skipping stones
across Great Slave Lake
my shadow and I

-- Chen-ou Liu (Canada)




the day lilies blare
red and orange arias –
still, no butterflies

-- Richard Stevenson (Canada)




autumn gust
all the coloured pegs
grip the clothes line

-- Jan Dobb (Australia)




city forest
birds mimic
a car alarm

-- Tiggy Johnson (Australia)




visible
between the photos,
what didn't happen

-- Beth McFarland (Northern Ireland)




July deluge
lawn spinkler
joins in

-- Mark Lonergan (Ireland)




kingfisher
gathering the mid-day sun
on its wet feathers

-- Jim Burke (Ireland)




city twilight
the peregrines' nest
chimes the hour

-- Claire Everett (England)




daffodil buds
her pregnancy
now shows

-- Rachel Sutcliffe (England)




crows on a bare branch –
ink-laden
brushstrokes

-- Marie Coveney (Ireland)




in my teacup,
a somersault
of the full moon

-- Keith Simmonds (Trinidad and Tobago)




waiting for a friend –
a pigeon struts up and down
the wet pavement

-- Sonam Chhoki (Bhutan)




old wall
ants in and out
of the cavities

-- Stella Pierides (Greece)

windy morning –
my granny’s red scarf
dancing


singing the sorrowful songs
of our forefathers,
the waterfall


this endless valley…
ants crossing
the track of a fox


winter night –
the gloomy sky
lit by snowflakes


at long last
there it is,
sky between the skyscrapers

-- Amýl Engin (Turkey; transl. from the Turkish by the author and Anatoly Kudryavitsky)




clinging to the window pane,
two dried leaves,
dead butterfly’s wings
   
-- Melisa Gürpınar (Turkey; transl. from the Turkish by the author and Anatoly Kudryavitsky)




desolate wet shore –
waves coming and going
moss remaining

-- Evin Okçuoğlu (Turkey; transl. from the Turkish by the author and Anatoly Kudryavitsky)




a street beggar –
snowflakes not melting
on his palm

-- Turgay Uçeren (Turkey; transl. from the Turkish by the author and Anatoly Kudryavitsky)