Early Spring

​

snow melt

I enter a year

of seconds

 

Bisshie

 

 

seeds

the tight rhythms

of an old song

 

Robert Witmer

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​

late winter -

not much

springs to mind

 

Bonnie Scherer

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​

living with barnacles

the slow boat

on its way

 

Jeff Ferrara

 

 

march sunrise

rosehips glisten

in the last frost

 

Bill Fay

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foggy morning -

the wingbeat of wrens

along the stream

 

Maire Morrissey Cummins

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​

light
bouncing off snow
chickadee song

 

 

Susan Bonk Plumridge

 

 

spring lake

a beaver's tail

strikes the sun

 

Marilyn Ashbaugh

 

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ebbing winter tide

a littleneck sways itself

back into wet sand

 

Hannah Mahoney

 

 

winter sunlight

frail mehendi*

on her palm

 

Devoshruti Mandal

 

 

ice floe dawn

ghosts of translucent blue

drift through her song

John Hawkhead

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​

March ice

spring

just below

 

Marylyn Burridge

 

 

zazen...

a lotus rises

above the mud

 

Neena Singh

​

 

sunrise on fresh snow mourning doves' pink toes

​

Carly Siegel Thorp

 

 

stumbling

over stones

creeksong

 

Jhoagland

​

​

spring snow

the pears ripen

in the bowl

 

Carrie Etter

 

 

downstream rock pool

a dabble of mallards

dive in

 

Laurie Greer

​

 

spring thaw

briefly walking together

the stray and I

 

John Pappas

 

​

anything

other than I am

frozen branch

 

Richa Sharma

 

 

rippling 

over marsh grass

cloudshadow

 

John Pappas

 

​

melting snow 

the angel I made

holds a crocus 

 

Millicent Bee

​

 

alone under trees

a magpie 

shares my solitude

 

Tom Staudt

 

 

street children

around the burning tyre ----

winter wind

 

Manoj Sharma

 

 

frozen ruts

fill with spring rain

he softens his tone

Paula Sears

 

 

your smile

through the coffee steam

first daffodils

​

Daniel Birnbaum

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​

March snow                  

gull shadows sweep      

the pristine field    

 

Claire Ninham

 

​

flashes of blue-green 

a kingfisher dives

into melting creek 

 

Meera Rehm

​

 

rain-washed air

the empty clothesline

dripping clouds

 

Lesley Anne Swanson

 

 

sudden death

of a rosebud

late frost

 

Kimberly Kuchar

 

 

bruised apple  -

the first weeks

of heartbreak

​

Maire Morrissey Cummins

​

 

still forest the deer’s heart skips a beat

 

Ganesh R

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gentle rain

the softness of a

singing child

 

Eavonka Ettinger 

 

​

spring gust 

peach blossoms blown 

into the sheepfold 

 

Eric Sundquist

 

​

abandoned tracks

wild fennel

finding its way

 

Helen Ogden

 

 

green-eyed garden spider stares off someplace else 

​

Jeff Ingram

 

 

spring gale -

tangled in the eaves

silent wind chimes

 

Fionnuala Waldron

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​

muddy paddy field-

water fills

the tractor trail

 

Ram Chandran

 

 

outdoor meditation

the song of a frog mixes

with my mantra

 

Oscar Luparia

​

 

the last white birthroot fading with hospice

 

Evan Coram

 

​

drifting through

bright osier stems

spring snow squall

 

Sarah Strong

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​

red barn      

adrift in a puddle of sky—

lake in thaw

 

Sarah Strong

 

 

snowy creekside

the blues in a sunken

beer can

 

Glenn Coats

​

 

hyacinth fragrance
floods the hospital room
snowmelt

​

Sangita Kalarickal Krivosik

 

 

Spring blizzard

father retells

my birth story

 

Jenn Ryan-Jauregui

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​

pre-snow

just the hush

of sky

 

Joanna Ashwell

 

 

hard rime

the spiky ice of

our last words

 

Eavonka Ettinger 

​

 

a chill in the air

the kingfisher

splits the channel

 

Brad Bennett

 

 

a warm coin

to a cold hand

passing clouds

 

Robert Witmer

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a cherry petal

wedged between grass blades

fluttering

 

Bill Cooper

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​

rewilding our garden sparrowhawk

 

Clive Bennett

​

 

how the rain 

moves as circles

arctic tern

 

Alan Summers

 

​

recalling things

my brother loved—

violets in deep grass    

 

Sarah Strong

 

 

 

  caught in a crowd            

the silent path 

     between stars

 

Jenny Fraser

 

​

the questions 

of Tawny owls 

Polaris fading

 

Bisshie

​

 

black hole

the suck and tug

of indecision

 

Marilyn Humbert

​

​

in praise

of darkness –

fireflies

 

Alvin Cruz

​

 

that voiceless feeling wandering stars

 

Jennifer Hambrick

​

 

Mid Spring 

 

 

morning mist

the softness of

pussy willow

 

Farah Ali

​

 

reaching through
the cloud-covered dawn
siskin’s song

​

Reid Hepworth

 

 

dawn . . .

raven shakes the night

from his feathers

 

 

Jim Force

 

 

spring rain

a thrush's song

to worms

 

Keith Evetts

​

 

early morning solace

the tea kettle song

of a wren

 

Adele Evershed

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​

flood

the field covered

with sky

 

David Watts

 

 

unfinished             periodical

conversation                cicada

​

Jhoagland

​

 

just before language a hermit crab shell

​

Aidan Castle

 

​

in the eyes

of the strung-up fish

island sunrise

 

Bryan Rickert

 

 

circles on a pond

water striders connecting

their disparate worlds

 

Mariya Gusev

​

 

the geometry

of hunger

antlions

 

Jhoagland

​

 

choosing a different road the bleat of lambs

 

Adrian bouter

​

 

what earth remembers  

from this rainstorm...

magnolia petals

 

Maya Daneva

 

 

spring roundup

light drips off the rim

of a wrangler's hat

 

 

Debbie Strange

​

 

first morning

in a different country

valley haze

 

Ruth Holzer

​

 

park pond

the mallards’ flight

skimming sunbeams

 

Joanna Ashwell

 

 

balcony bee

only one of us enjoys

the morning breeze

 

Richa Sharma

​

 

water logic

every river

finds its way

 

David Watts

 

 

a child’s patience…

butterfly cocoon

on the fence

 

Earl Livings

 

 

spring again

the neighbor’s tractor 

finally starts

 

Bryan Rickert

​

 

a cardinal's whistles reddening viburnum berries

 

Kristen Lindquist

​

 

my grandson’s laughter

woodland

     brook

          slips

            over

              rocks

 

Brian Kates

 

 

spring sunlight

slips into spaces

—kintsukuroi

 

Eve Castle

 

 

thawing in a mountain lake pine shadows

 

Barrie Levine

​

 

hydrangea blooms a breath of blue sky

 

Barrie Levine

​

 

Easter Sunday

wildflowers sprouting through

a possum's ribcage

 

Danny Daw

 

​

dark clouds

the route of light

of a butterfly

 

Oscar Luparia

 

 

river in flood flowing through the heron

 

Nick Taylor

 

 

coastal walk

the tumult of the sea

in my son’s eyes

 

Adele Evershed

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deepening snow

all those crevices

on her floured hands

 

Antoinette Cheung

 

 

the fading echo

of horses' hooves

spring rain

 

Mariel Herbert

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​

plough lines 

willow leaves slowly 

fill the rows

 

Ben Oliver

​

 

daffodils' foliage  

becoming part of the tall grass...

spring deepens

 

Maya Daneva

​

 

across the river 

the scent of rainfall 

on wild bluebells 

 

Lori Kiefer

 

 

snowy day

flakes softly falling

from the paring knife

 

Mike Fainzilber

 

 

beneath

tattered butterfly wings

spring blossoms

C.X Turner

​

 

riverside walk

the comfort 

of round pebbles 

 

Mona Bedi

​

​

toll

death

rising

the

juniper

weeping

 

 

Denise Fontaine

​

​

all the soft sounds              

of the sea

wildflowers

 

Jenny Fraser

 

 

gusts of wind
we stand in a blizzard
of cherry blossoms

​

Ernest Wit

 

 

may drizzle

the celadon glaze

of spring

 

John Pappas

​

​

earth day all these tree-hugging squirrels

 

Debbie Strange

 

​

the sun always rises

even through the grey

mountain snail

 

Mike Fainzilber

​

​

cloud reflections

the stab

of an egret's beak

 

Jay Friedenberg

​

 

moss-deep in shade purple trillium

 

Kathryn Liebowitz

​

 

gentle breeze

mum's lullaby
in lilacs

 

Sébastien REVON

​

 

gleaning 

the stubble field

evening light

 

Helen Ogden

​

 

sweetening the lulls

in our conversation

evening rain

 

John Pappas

 

 

falling night

the sound of water

darkening

 

Vandana Parashar

​

 

spring moon

the constant stare

of a one eyed dog

 

Mona Bedi

 

 

whilst I sleep

scaling the wall

night jasmine

 

C.X Turner

​

 

full moon

my travel companion's

weather-beaten face

 

Eugeniusz Zacharski

 

 

 

Late Spring 

 

 

 

spring dawn

the sun emerging

from a rose

 

Lori Kiefer

​

 

first light ...

between the seen and unseen

the song of a thrush

 

Chen-ou Liu

 

 

cardinal call

the red pin point

of sunrise

 

Holli Rainwater

 

 

dream leopards

slinking away

first light

 

Kathryn Liebowitz

​

 

cirrus cloudsー

I’m immersed 

　in saijiki

 

Keiko Izawa

 

​

morning light

I part my curtains

to let in birdsong

 

Baisali Chatterjee Dutt

​

 

reflection pool

a lily petal floats

into my shadow

 

Richard L. Matta

 

 

morning stillness

a bee spills rain                                      

from the lilac

 

Gavin Austin

 

 

i smile on the inside anemones

 

Aidan Castle

 

 

the breeze becoming the wind chimes 

 

Chris Peys

 

 

cold rain

the hidden murmurs

of a mourning dove

 

Kim Klugh

 

 

Tibetan monks 

the yellow life 
of butterflies 

 

Chad Henry

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traveling abroad driftwood

 

Roberta Beach Jacobson

​

 

Mum's song...

the way a breeze

ruffles the lake

 

David He Zhuanglang

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plum blossoms 

drifting into the hands 

of the wooden saint 

 

Chad Henry

​

 

held in the boughs

of a gnarled oak

bluebird song

 

Carly Siegel Thorp

​

​

out of the blue

a gull dives

into the blue

 

Ravi Kiran

​

 

village well 

she brings home 

the taste of monsoon 

 

Meera Rehm

​

 

uncosted birdsong —

the yellow trail

through commercial pine

 

Alan Peat

​

 

sudden breeze -   

the wild silence

of butterflies

 

John Low

​

 

the mood

of another April...

mango breeze

 

Srini

 

 

calligraphy

a pelican’s beak

nibs a descender

 

Richard L. Matta

 

​

spring jazz…

woodpeckers riffing

on sunny trunks

 

Dorothy Burrows

​

 

a lifetime spent 

within a landscape

the quiet stream

 

Thomas Powell

​

 

such happy childhoods daffodil breeze

 

Peter Newton

​

 

the philanthropy of flowers noblesse oblige

​

Sharon Martina

 

​

Mojave noon

the only shade

is the hawk’s shadow

​

Gordon Brown

 

 

British Summer Time…

everywhere, blossoming

umbrellas

 

Dorothy Burrows

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​

all afternoon

tree shadows scaling 

the fence 

 

Sharon Martina

 

 

 rhizome 

all the life 

 i do not 

    see 

 

P.H Fischer

 

sequoias 

a girl i knew who grew

beyond me

 

Alan Peat

 

​

weeping

without tears

desert sky

 

Tina Mowrey

 

 

long night ahead -

a pond heron eases 

into the grass

 

amoolya kamalnath

​

​

we can still be friends…

edge of the stubble field

next to a wood

 

Alan Peat

 

 

twilight 

bats dart between

our exclamations 

 

Petro C.K

 

​

a whitebell

in Bluebell Wood

daylight moon

 

Alison Breewood

​

 

cloudless sunset - 

the wine cork

blushed on one end

​

Dan Salontai

 

 

setting sun

squeezing an orange

into the sangria

 

Stephenie Story

 

 

late blossom...

would he approve

of my choice?

 

Polona Oblak

 

 

long drought...

a vulture scrapes past

the day moon

 

Brad Bennett

​

 

spring evening

the setting sun lights up

an old billboard

 

Milan Rajkumar

 

 

moonrise

over the Laguna

the frogs change pitch

​

Sarah Paris

​

 

evening. . .

    a cabbage white

folds its wings

 

Susan Yavaniski

​

 

evening star

a sleepy horse

in a small barn

 

Robert Witmer

 

 

flamingoes 

stencilled black against 

the rising pink moon

 

Marilyn Humbert

 

 

sentient night

a frog pond reaches

into the car

 

Shawn Blair

 

 

pickled stardust moonlight finds the beet jar 

 

Jeff Ingram

 

 

origami . . .

a lotus folding

in moonlight

 

Paula Sears

 

 

on the lake

taking a dip

into full moon

 

Christopher Calvin