Night Descends

first stars appearing
the dog licking
her paws

B. L. Bruce
Corralitos, California, USA
www.blbruce.com
IG: @b_l_bruce
Twitter: @the_poesis

cool droplets and mist
yet power and thunder
both sides of nature

Sherri J Moye-Dombrosky
Liberty, South Carolina USA

humid night—
chorus of cicadas
amid the thunder

Neena Singh
Chandigarh, India
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/neenas
Instagram: @neenapp
Twitter: @neenasingh7
Blog: Whispers of the Soul

Tennessee fire fly
a sowing moon’s
guiding light

Erin Castaldi
Mays Landing, New Jersey, USA

Editor Bio: Jennifer Gurney lives in Colorado where she teaches, paints, writes and hikes. Her poetry is widely published, two of her poems have won international contests and one was turned into a choral piece. Jennifer has four books of published poetry, My Eyes Adjusting (2024), Liquid Sky (2025), Love’s Echolocation (2025) and Light Matters More (2025, forthcoming). In just over two and a half years, more than 1,500 of Jennifer’s poems have been published. She is also delighted to be a guest editor for Haiku Girl Summer.

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