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Pink cotton candy
Feathery clouds melt like air
Sweetness coats the tongue

Jennette Green writes sweet romance with a touch of spice. She fell in love with writing as a child and filled notebooks with stories. Her books have received “Reader’s Favorite Hero,” “Reviewer’s Choice Award” and more. She writes contemporary, historical, sci-fi and fantasy romance. Her contemporary romance, Snowstorm, was an international bestseller on Amazon.

The old rain lady came tap, tap, tapping.
“Come in, old woman.” I cried
And ne’er a word but rap-a-rapping.
Her cane she briskly plied.
Rap-tap the water was drop-a-dropping
from off the rain lady nose to toes.
Tap-rap the cane was plop-a-plopping.
From my feather soft bed, I arose.
The shade came down swish-a swishing
and hid the rain lady’s face–
But still I heard the twish-a-twishing
rap-tap cane all over the place.

Ramona Acree Burnham was born in 1914. She wrote most of her poems as a young adult. She left a loving legacy of creativity for her daughters in an old leather book in which she also collected “great thoughts” from writers and philosophers from around the world.

Jacqueline Thomas earned an A.S. in marketing and in retail management while attending Fresno City College. She would like to thank Professor David Dominguez for helping her become a better writer. Her works have been published in The FCC Review, Symmetry, and The American Journal of Poetry, Vol. X. 

Jacqueline Thomas earned an A.S. in marketing and in retail management while attending Fresno City College online. She was inspired by her English professor, Pilar Graham, to read and write poetry. Her works have been published in The FCC Review, Symmetry, and The American Journal of Poetry, Vol. X. 

An ancient pond!
With a sound from the water
Of the frog as it plunges in.

Matsuo Basho, originally Matsuo Chuemon Munefusa, was born in Ueno, Japan, in 1644 to a family of samurai descent. Basho was introduced to poetry at a young age by Todo Yoshitada, for whom he worked and shared a mutual love of renga. After Yoshitada’s death in 1666, Basho moved to the capital city of Edo (now Tokyo), where he studied poetry and gained recognition for his use of the haiku form. In 1684, Basho left Edo to travel alone, and documented his travels in The Narrow Road to the Deep North (1694), which helped establish the haibun as a major form, connecting haiku with narrative prose. He was the author of numerous other anthologies and volumes of poetry, including Monkey’s Raincoat (1691) and The Seashell Game (1672). Basho died in Osaka on November 28, 1694.