Stanzaic Stylings

 Blue Moon Your light leads the way To adventure and freedom Come shine upon me Lynn Long is an aspiring writer/novelist.

Nice to Know at Last What Is Meant Yes, it’s nice to become acquainted with sound and reason of other beings, makes one feel like one belongs to an invisible club – the lines were always drawn, but it’s helpful to know they were not imagined. It's remedy for the sanity. Finally nice to know what is meant by all these chuckles, to get the inside joke, to speak the vernacular, try it on like a glove on the tongue. Practicing in the mirror three times this morning alone. There now, doesn’t that feel better, or does it make matters worse, now with a heavy mouth? JD DeHart is a writer and teacher.  His writing has recently appeared at Cacti Fur and Oddball Magazine.

Cleveland Haiku #474 Visitor to our town--- she added beauty here in many ways Bio : "Michael Ceraolo continues to work on Cleveland Haiku and other poetry projects, some of which have appeared here previously."

One Step Away Behind the curtains of time, change is but only a step away, for without change, the world would be endless, caught in the same routine. Swept up in time, we march forward to the tune of change, but those who no longer hear the winds of change are left behind in a world gone gray. Only in time do we find our true selves and possibly why we were born, but for us to discover that, we must keep moving forward. Otherwise, the world will move ahead of us, leaving us with nothing but the past, and then we must wait to slip back into time and retrace our footsteps toward the unknown future. Click here for Glass Skies Over Home on Amazon.com

One Fine Line Mourn for the departed glory,  For poems that left earth Unheard, unsung. Poetry lives in a line, or two, The rest is merely glue, it’s true. A bold lone stroke stands not for art,  Nor one fine phrase for a poem. When I see now, what passes for it,  It saddens; emboldens me a bit. For who now crafts their one fine line At a time, And then, one more? Short Bio: Rajnish Mishra has a PhD in English literature and he has been active in the areas of teaching,  research and writing for nearly a decade now. He has published more than a dozen books, and has edited  six books. His love for his city and his awareness of its effects on his psycho-social development led him to  starting his own blog:  rajnishmishravns.wordpress.com  in 2011. The blog features both his academic writing  and his writing on his city: the City of Light, Varanasi. Blog URL: https://rajnishmishravns. wordpress.com/

Pacific Daydream Lofty Willows growing     at the edge of the pond         water buffalo graze             among the fields of rice. Cat birds cry in a breeze     by grand banyan trees         winds sway the grasses             like long ocean waves. Pheasant quickly dash     to thickets for safer cover         alone in the fields,             I sit and watch the sky. Grasses are now warm     after a day spent in sunshine         puffy clouds racing by             heading off towards the sea. Colorful butterflies dancing     and dragonflies romancing         banana now ready             pineapple is looking fine. Mango and papaya,     my favorite tropical treat ...

El Poeta He has the Moon reflected, in the deepest of blue eyes,  like the beautiful ocean.   A calming after a tempest a rage flows within the heart. He bleeds poetry with every letter  With every word he leaves pieces  of his shattered lonely heart On the parchment, he turns his sorrows into loving verses. And loving verses into my El Poeta's sweet dreams. (First published in "Where Are You From?" Anthology) Bio: Blanca Alicia Garza is a Poet from Las Vegas, Nevada. She is a nature and animal lover, and enjoys spending time writing. Her poems are published in the Poetry Anthologies, "Moonlight Dreamers of Yellow Haze", and "Dandelions in a Vase of Roses" now available at Amazon.com. Blanca's work can be found in  The Poet Community, Whispers, The Winamop Journal, Indiana Voice Journal, Tuck Magazine, Raven's Cage Ezine, Scarlet Leaf Review as well as Birdsong Anthology 2016, Vol 1.