Wednesday, February 19, 2014

High Coupe by ayaz daryl nielsen


this earth we live on
betoaded and cawified
naked heart and toes


replacing floorboards
the grey expired strides
of ancestors



ayaz daryl nielsen is editor of bear creek haiku (24+ years/116+ issues).  his poetry's homes include Lilliput Review, Yellow Mama, Verse Wisconsin, Shamrock, High Coupe, Shemom and Lalitamba, poetry ensembles include Haiku Tumbleweeds Still Tumbling and Bear Creek Haiku Anthology Poets of Bear Creek -- beloved wife/poet Judith Partin-Nielsen, assistant Frosty, and! bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com (translates as joie de vivre).



Monday, February 17, 2014

Haiku by Mary Jo Balistreri


tropical cold spell
last shaken light on river
starlings shift and turn


muted smoke-peach blends
daughter watches gulf sunset
mother’s ghost painting


crimson crowns tipped back
sixty-million year echoes
pleistocene bugling



Mary Jo Balistreri has two books of poetry, Joy in the Morning, and gathering the harvest, both published by Bellowing Ark Press.  A chapbook, Best Brothers, is forthcoming in spring, 2014 from Tiger's Eye Press.  Mary Jo has published widely, and has three Pushcart nominations and two Best of the Net.  She is a founding member of Grace River Poets, an outreach for schools, women's shelters, and churches.  Please visit Mary Jo on her website: maryjobalistreripoet.com 

Monday, February 3, 2014

Haiku from Sam Bockover


Ghost visage in rock
Americana landmark
The Black Hills judge us


 
Chords rising through air
Harmonica and guitar
Naming human pains
 

Crumpled pages speak
Bad poems and Baphomets
High school memories

 
 
Chalk, hands, torn blisters
Rock lessons applied to life
All ascents have risk

 
 
Ayahuasca tastes
Outer space blooms inside you
Universe of love
 
 
 
 
Sam Bockover is a writer and poet from the American midwest.

Saturday, February 1, 2014

Haiku by ayaz daryl nielsen


never a headline
a few threadbare footnotes
always a friend
 
 
 
a fool for beauty
inside the art gallery
alongside my wife
 
 
 
ayaz daryl nielsen, husband, father, veteran, x-roughneck (as on oil rigs) and x-hospice nurse, is editor of bear creek haiku (24+ years/116+ issues), his poetry’s homes include Lilliput Review, Yellow Mama, Verse Wisconsin, Shamrock, High Coupe and Shemom, he has earned some cherished awards and participated in worthy anthologies - his poetry ensembles include Concentric Penumbra’s of the Heart and Tumbleweeds Still Tumbling, and, in 2013, released an anthology of poetry titled The Poet’s of Bear Creek - beloved wife/poet Judith Partin-Nielsen, assistant Frosty, and! bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com (translates as joie de vivre)