Gentle Moments

There is a love that goes into hiding

behind a stare of incomprehension,

beneath a lessoned consciousness.

But in the quiet, gentle moments

of small kindnesses received,

the eyes widen in affection.

A crocus from frozen ground

Ed Ahern resumed writing after forty odd years in foreign intelligence and international sales. He’s had 550 stories and poems published so far, and twelve books. Ed works the other side of writing at Bewildering Stories where he manages a posse of six review editors.

Moon Silver

violet-gray 

ocean   waves

the rain has

come   only

gray here

Emma Grey Rose is a writer based in San Diego, California from Portland, Oregon. Her work has appeared in The Blotter Magazine, Periwinkle Pelican Lit, Poetry Life and Times, Frighten the Horses, and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbook, All The Beautiful Things (Midsummer Dream House, 2024).

Sun Plains

blue   berries    

on a summer   night

wheat fields

a   Kansas sun  

Emma Grey Rose is a writer based in San Diego, California from Portland, Oregon. Her work has appeared in The Blotter Magazine, Periwinkle Pelican Lit, Poetry Life and Times, Frighten the Horses, and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbook, All The Beautiful Things (Midsummer Dream House, 2024).