Shahada
By Richard GrahnEvanston, Illinois, USA dawn . . .salat risesfrom the ruins of Gazafrom the tents and sheltersin the city…
Exponential
By Richard GrahnEvanston, Illinois USA My muse has seduced me again. You’re the Writer. You’re the only one who can…
Landmine
By Richard Grahn
Descendents of an Antiquated Paradigm
By Richard Grahn (Editor's Contribution)Evanston, Illinois, USA the neverending TV screenbatters our brains with atrocitiesconditions of pain and eternal strifethe…
The Meadow
Editor's ContributionBy Richard GrahnEvanston, Illinois, USA i stand in a blossoming meadowclover, poppy, and black-eyed Susanripples of fragrance soften the…
T Minus 10
By Richard Grahn Evanston, Illinois, USA Spaceman, always looking up, a compass with no needle, lost it shooting up. Always…
No Quarter
by Richard GrahnEvanston, Illinois, USA fields of cotton . . .we sing "Amazing Grace"with the larksPine shadows rest on the…
Trampled
Richard GrahnEvanston, Illinois, USA
Haiga – Time Bomb
By Richard GrahnEvanston, Illinois, USA Energy.gov lists the following resources as the primary sources of energy on Earth: Nuclear energy,…
Haiga – Cosmic Waste
By Richard GrahnEvanston, Illinois, USA "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one…
Tankart – Future’s Child
By Richard GrahnEvanston, Illinois, USA As the world's superpowers flash their muscles, the following, chilling thought comes to mind .…
Haiga – “I have a dream”
By Richard GrahnEvanston, Illinois, USA Human Rainbow "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live…
Haiga – AI
By Richard GrahnEvanston, Illinois, USA According to the World Food Program, ~783 million people in the world are hungry. Of…
Haibun – Vantage Point
By Richard GrahnEvanston, Illinois, USA empty parking lot—a breath of foggy airfrosts my glasses Today marks the first of this…
Haigabun – Stars
By Richard GrahnEvanston, Illinois, USA I know there are stars; I have seen them at night. I have floated among…
Haiga – Extinction
By Richard GrahnEvanston, Illinois, USA Per the National Museum of Natural History, recent studies estimate that there are about 8…
Tankart – Waking from a Nightmare
By Richard GrahnEvanston, Illinois, USA We really do need to be vocal about the things that matter to the future…
Haiga – Continental Drift
By Richard GrahnEvanston, Illinois, USA Antartica is dripping into the sea. The world's largest glaciers are melting at an alarming…
Haiga – Buzz
By Richard GrahnEvanston, Illinois, USA Pollinator populations are declining because of habitat loss, disruptions in nesting and breeding sites due…
Haiga – Spring Dawn
By Richard GrahnEvanston, Illinois, USA Despite all the doom and gloom in the planetary forecast, I like to believe there…