A Hundred Gourds

index

page 12

plucking
wild chin hair
autumn chill

Beverly Acuff Momoi - U.S.A.

before the burn,
the aroma of smoke ...
scotch on the rocks

Autumn Noelle Hall - U.S.A.

steam train whistle
the aroma of Grandpa's
pipe tobacco

Leanne Mumford - Australia

the flame flickers
this way and that
candlelit dinner

Alan S. Bridges - U.S.A.

power failure
her shadow dances
with the candle flame

Maire Morrissey-Cummins - Ireland

morning star
the candle I lit for you
still smoulders

Tracy Davidson - U.K.

down lovers' lane
a new development
set in concrete

Barbara A. Taylor - Australia

slowing
to match her pace
eventide

Benjamin Moeller-Gaa - U.S.A.

his aging voice
a broken chord in the place
of bel canto

Margaret Dornaus - U.S.A.

old LP
at the end an encore
of silence

Peter Newton - U.S.A.

a cold hearth
his limp leather gloves
unhanded

Autumn Noelle Hall - U.S.A.

what little I have –
the willow's
three leaves

Mark Smith - U.S.A.

weight loss ...
a widow speaks of
her deceased

Anne Curran - New Zealand

taunting gravity
a dying jack-pine
I'll write my own obit

Steven Carter - U.S.A.

beside the graveyard
a windmill turns
into dusk

Vuong Pham - Australia