26th February 2012
Nature surrounds me
Birds fly in all directions
Life: one special gift!
By Emma Brookes
A country to fix
Mission for my Haitian kids
Joy and saudades
By Ana Clara Oliveira Santos
Salt Air On Thames Tide
Memories Of Distant Shores
& English Seasides
By C F Garner
She becomes a star
Cardboard tube instead of mike
Big finish and bow
By Linda Garner
Retina Ageing
Leads to hospital visit
Father time rolls on
By Tony Garner
Hear the spiral song
Birds from the Galactic Core
Heralding our Dawn
By Phi Yaan-Zek
Simply to enjoy
Donned beret, became hirsuit
Vive le carnaval!
By June Gadsby

Singing 'La Lupe'
to myself while I suffer
an actual Fever
By Mark Garner

Planned a weekend
Illness put a stop to plan
Feeling better now
By Angie Thomas
19th February 2012
Cross Words Will Puzzle
One Down to Experience
Two Across Purposes
By C F Garner
Parties all around
While I hide in my studies
Yeah, it’s Carnival.
By Ana Clara Oliveira Santos
Attachment means grief
Old, loved cat's passing is a
Lesson lost in tears
By Mark Garner

Augmented starlight
Signals beamed through my fingers
In sonic cascades
By Phi Yaan-Zek
Keep still - she won't see
Don't move - be invisible
Ah, the stuff of dreams.
By June Gadsby

Supple trees that bend
Patience and understanding
Rigid trees break, fall.
By June Gadsby

Three sisters as one
A century of life lived
And then there are none
By June Gadsby

Alsatians kissing.
One called milo, one called mars,
Brothers, friends, always.
By Linda Diana Thomas

12th February 2012
My Horizon in
The Arms of an Olive Tree
Sunshine on Blossom
By C F Garner
While there it’s snowing
It's really really hot here.
Please send some snow flakes
By Ana Clara Oliveira Santos
Cold accusations
Dark stories brings winter's chill
Let love melt the ice
By Phi Yaan-Zek
Hot soapy water
Blade cuts umbilical sprue
A Uhlan is born
By Mark Garner
Three sisters as one
A century of life lived
And then there are none
By June Gadsby
The wisdom of the owl
Visited upon a few
Wise in afterthought
By June Gadsby

5th February 2012
Fear of Letting Go
Last Leaf on a Winter Tree
Shivers off the Snow
By C F Garner
Lightning and pink sky
Nature showing its power
In my window’s view
By Ana Clara Oliveira Santos

(Photo by Mark Greathouse)
Memorably dreamt
Jesus, Admiral Akbar
Fought in my garden
By Pete Lambert
No past or future
Arise ye synchro gnostics
Everything is you!
By Phi Yaan-Zek
I can't stop humming
"Abdul the Bulbul-Amir"
Neither will you, now...
By Mark Garner
Beer, fags, cake, tea
Wine, biscuits, cat food, not me
Oh bugger its Feb (ruary!)
By Steven Langley
Fields of lavender
Perfume of heaven, inhale
Soothe the troubled mind
By June Gadsby

Fluttering snowflakes
Falling like tiny soft stars
Blanketing the ground
By June Gadsby
Paths of gold beckon.
Follow them, embrace your dream;
Bright colour of joy.
By June Gadsby

A bird in the hand
Such a wonderful feeling
At one with Nature
By June Gadsby

Wiltshire I'll be back
Mysteries and UFO's
Owls and sky watching
By Nathalie Sintes

Purple field ahead
Rises Ah, then falls away
As do my concerns
By Jeff Alexander