Spring Air

 

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first butterfly

the expanding universe

         of a child

 

Kevin Valentine

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snow globe…

shaking a small world

to watch the chaos

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Rob McKinnon

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sunrise

all the colours                

of a second chance

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Gavin Austin

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first hike

watching our breaths

become dawn

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Ryland Li

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city market

early morning sun

already there

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Samo Kreutz

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caterpillar . . .

a millimeter of sky

waiting for flight

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Keith Polette

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morning cloud

rowing away

to daydreams

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Joanna Ashwell

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spring sky

a good reason

to change my mind

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Oscar Luparia

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sunrise a piece of unexpected news

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Keith Evetts

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a line of starlings

cut the sky -

ocean daybreak

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Maire Morrissey Cummins

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zephyr . . .

first thoughts of

the reflecting pool

 

P.H Fischer

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tracing

a toddler's scribble –

spring butterfly

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Ravi Kiran

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unspeaking the snow winter sun

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Pippa Phillips

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spring wind

the hills climbing

without me

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Ash Evan Lippert

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snowy oak branches

cardinals courting among

pale green leaf buds

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David Kujawa

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spring mizzle

a cow’s rump beading

tiny rainbows

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Marietta McGregor

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woodland ramble

climbing on six notes

a whistling kite

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Marietta McGregor

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kite-flying lessons

holding on

while letting go

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Kim Klugh

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Flyover –

gnats buzz into the fog,

out of the fog

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James Roderick Burns

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a dog barks

at the billowing cloud

slow day

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Jeanne Cook

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my hand

on the warm side of my cat

winter sun

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Jeanne Cook

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witnessing the sleet

slant with the wind

first daffodil

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Fionnuala Waldron

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sun across my desk

word by word

all the blackberries

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Kristen Lindquist

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frond-shadow

—the artistry

of air

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Laurie Morrissey

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almond tree blossoms

I would just like

to stop the wind

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Francoise Maurice

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lonely drive

i carry the sky

with me

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Mona Bedi

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after the bushfire

cumulus clouds

dress the wounds

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Rohan Buettel

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raining ropes the clouds deep inside me

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Alan Peat

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flashing lights

on the heart monitor

spring freeze

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Bruce Feingold

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blossom light

a snowflake sails through

our argument

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John Hawkhead

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cry of a kid        

to the spring sky…

flying balloon

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Oscar Luparia

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after her burial

watching thunderheads

over the mountain

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Goran Gatalica

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drowning my sorrow spring rain

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Mona Bedi

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late snow

the lakeshore

melts into egrets

 

Joshua St. Claire

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fallow field

a fallen rainbow

comes to rest

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Alan Peat

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air-raid sirens

the deaf child keeps drawing

a dove

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Maya Daneva

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memories...

sunlight touches

just the treetops

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Agnes Eva Savich

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evening beach

the wind

longer than my hair

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Joanne van helvoort

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old lightkeeper

dreaming

in the language of fog

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Barrie Levine

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national park

the evening arrival

of woodsmoke

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David Watts

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long winter night

the moon walks me

to the edge of a dream

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Hifsa Ashraf

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hunters moon

a rabbit caught

in its beams

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Maureen Edden

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moonlight

a swan trailing

a white train

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Ernest Wit

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late for my medicine the lilting spring moon

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Bruce Feingold

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night fog

trying to remember

who I am

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Joshua Gage

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moon phases

the unfamiliar face

in the mirror

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Jonathan Roman

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melting snowflake

the soldier's

last breath

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Rich Schilling

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long winter

the full moon completes

my loneliness

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Alvin Cruz

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Spring Earth

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April sunrise

mountain snows melt

into daffodils

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Ash Evan Lippert

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mountain trek

sun rises through

the scent of orchids

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Tejinder Sethi

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before the doctor a spring tree holding my hand

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William Keckler

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birdsong

sighting torii

in the mist

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Stephen Curro

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winding road

a shepherds flock meanders

into the clouds

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Tom Staudt

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baby’s first steps

a mother’s breath

on tiptoe

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Kelly Sargent

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spring snow

a red fox pounces into

another dimension

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Debbie Strange

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first wellies

an alphabet of earthworms

on the sidewalk

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Debbie Strange

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forest walk

       the faint sound

of the temple bell

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Muskaan Ahuja

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first blossoms already a budding grief

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P.H Fischer

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spring flowers

where's the meadow we left

to find the world?

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Keith Evetts

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dogwood blossoms

something softens

the hawk’s gaze

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Jonathan Humphrey

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field of daisies

sheep graze

on a thousand suns

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June Rose Dowis

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sunflowers between my fingers seed catalogues

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Joshua St. Claire

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rural delivery –

the mind wanders

on the landscape

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Adjei Agyei-Baah

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spring rain...  

a straw hat  

in my hand

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David He Zhuanglang

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mad rush

exiting the train door —

a fly

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Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo

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spring carnival –

behind the masks

masks

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Milan Rajkumar

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train platform

whispered words

to a peace lily

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Bill Cooper

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potters wheel

the days when

I surrender

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Tejinder Sethi

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flute song

herd of cows fades into

a cloud of dust  

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Tejinder Sethi

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armfuls of moonlight

I want to know the name

of this tree

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Janet Ruth

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a pot of green tea

between masked neighbors

moonflowers unfurling

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Chen-ou Liu

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beginning of spring

watering flowers

on the neighbouring grave

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Irena Szewczyk

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poetic soul

a robin builds a nest      

with flower petals

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Jon Han

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wood violets

how fragile

life feels

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Marilyn Ashbaugh

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shaping

a country tale

sheep on the hill

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Maureen Edden

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twigs in my path i snap into the now

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Kati Mohr

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wherever you are

freedom lives within -

oak leaf on a fence

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Richa Sharma

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slanted winter light

in the basement

a crib gathers dust

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Chen-ou Liu

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war announcement

I look at the first

wild anemones

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Francoise Maurice

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Sudden music –

peeling the tangerine

in one go

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James Roderick Burns

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sidewalk hopscotch

trying to make the jump back

in time

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Kim Klugh

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acres of sunflowers

her extendable

selfie stick

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Lorraine Padden

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cars passing all day

in between -

the silence of linden trees

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Deborah A Bennett

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overgrown garden…

geranium flowers

grasp for the sun

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Rob McKinnon

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blown out tyre…

a gecko rests on red soil

in the shade

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Rob McKinnon

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cowlick—

the matted grass

where deer slept

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Keith Polette

 

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all cows

brown cows

mud season

 

Denise Fontaine

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the promise

you made last fall

pear tree in bloom

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Eve Castle

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snooze button

the pothole fills

with cherry petals

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Jonathan Humphrey

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diamonds

in the sunshower

robin song

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Allison Douglas-Tourner

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petrichor —

the wafting aroma

of mama's soup

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Oluwasegun Oluseyi Adesina

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watermelon seeds

the conversation he likes

to pick

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Mona Bedi

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closed flowers

the remote hills

of my childhood

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Anna Maria Domburg-Sancristoforo

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exploding through the window spring

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Mariangela Canzi

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river birch

one layer less

of vanity

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Jonathan Roman

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snowy oak branches

cardinals courting among

pale green leaf buds

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David Kujawa

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grass blades

cut to size

tax office lawn

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Srinivasa Rao Sambangi

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muddy field the pink of piglets

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Adrian Bouter

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spring

each side of the old track

reaching for the other

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Andrew Hubball

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summer garden

the slow creep

of a sundial's shadow

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Jay Friedenberg

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wagtails ...

playing hopscotch

after school

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Clive Bennett

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stomping grapes

the mash

of our stories

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Denise Fontaine

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fallen tree

two crows find

their roots

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Adrian Bouter

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from the fallen warrior's lips a butterfly

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Ruth Holzer

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deep in the woods shallow stream

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Roberta Beach Jacobson

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forgiving each other

with just a nod

white jonquils

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Lori Kiefer

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laburnum avenue

gathering rain wet petals

in an empty creel

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Arvinder Kaur

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pinyon pine

alone on the rim

canyon wren

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Deborah P Kolodji

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a folded corner—

where the story ended

for him

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Mike Gallagher

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open crocus . . .

the familiar shape

of this loss

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Jennifer Hambrick

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gaslight

the lies I tell

myself

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Alvin Cruz

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desert ironwood

the gnarled years

of her absence

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Kevin Valentine

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lonely walk

following a peacock’s cries

deep into the woods

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Arvinder Kaur

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fault gouge

what remains

of an argument

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Deborah P Kolodji

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a peacock’s mating call our silence magnifies dusk

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Neena Singh

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old ghosts—

i buy 'em all  

a stiff drink

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P.H Fischer

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in the park -

the old man playing chess

with a crow

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Eva Joan

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withered grass

at the temples

--this greyness

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Joshua St. Claire

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first frost

teaching his father

how to walk

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David Oates

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tracing the rutted path of my grandmother’s cheeks

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Adele Evershed

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pea tendrils

tying the loose ends

of life

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Tejinder Sethi

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deepening dusk

in the distance

a peel of temple bells

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Manoj Sharma

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weaving yarn—

the old woman’s smile

a little warped

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Neena Singh

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wood anemones

trailing into dusk

through starlight

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John Hawkhead

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beaten path

—the moon rests

on fallen leaves

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Sushama Kapur

 

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dark road

the world no larger

than my headlight

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David Watts

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stars out tonight…

a constellation

of jasmine

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Tony Williams

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night nowhere to turn sunflower

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James Krotzman

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in the slow hours my face is night

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John Newson

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Spring Tide

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dawn swim

the red eye

of the loon

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Allison Douglas-Tourner

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the crane's world in a ripple of fish

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John Kinory

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morning-prayer        

the breath

of an ocean

 

Jenny Fraser

 

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a flotilla of gulls dip over flooded fields winter dawn

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Maire Morrissey Cummins

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petrichor
a newt inherits
the earth

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Jonathan Humphrey

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rising dawn . . .

a fish leaps

upstream

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Manoj Sharma

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ebb tide the overnight appearance of new w(r)inkles

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Debbie Strange

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lakeside mist

takes the shape of a heron

morning news

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Adrian Bouter

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cloudy morning

a breeze ripples the lake —

a hawk is multiplied

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John Thomas Kelly

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gull laughter my bathing suit body

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Brian Rickert

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torrential rain

morning's empty promises

swept away

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Mike Gallagher

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leaping salmon…

what the river knows

of tradition

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Earl Livings

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floods recede-

the brown mud marks

on kitchen walls

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Rob McKinnon

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distant harbor                     

a heron rests

on the wreck's mast

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Mircea Moldovan

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fast flowing stream —

the detritus

I carry within

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Rohan Buettel

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stream edge the first trickle of snowdrops

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Claire Ninham

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glistening dew

a spider rides

waterfall wind

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Brad Bennett

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passing water skier . . .

the white egret

lifts with the wave

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Michael Dylan Welch

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calm pool

i throw a stone

into the sky

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James Young

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wading in the lake

I slip deeper

into my reflection

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(Mrs.) Barrie Levine

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still missing you…

a steady pace

of rain

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C.X Turner

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peace talks ...

the roar of water

over rocks

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Chen-ou Liu

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hidden tarn

a forest of firs comes down

to the water

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Kristen Lindquist

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thaw

earth drinks

the snow's light

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Michael Baeyens

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dragonflies couple

beneath sycamore seeds

the pond swells

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John Newson

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gulls gather

a trawler rides the knife edge

of a red dawn

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Michael Baeyens

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slack water

the silent

waiting room

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Lorraine Padden

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joining your deep self, thunderstorm

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Mariangela Canzi

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all along the stream

frogspawn

February stillness

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Maire Morrissey Cummins

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nearing water the arch of a swan's neck

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Dan Treagust

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windless morning –

a coot tows her wake

into the stillness

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John Low

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thunderstorm

my hands dripping

with dishwater

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Keith Polette

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letting everyone

know they are there

oystercatchers

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Dan Treagust

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strands of waterweed

undulate in the river

friends retell old tales

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Jeanne Cook

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blown inland

the sound of the sea

in a gulls cry

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Clive Bennett

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amid the patio chatter

koi ripple

the sun

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Ben Gaa

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shutter click

just as the heron

hides its head

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Keith Polette

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next chemo dose . . .

seemingly infinite

a teal ocean

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Anthony Lusardi

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deep summer

the entire creek

in one hop

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Brian Rickert

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ebb tide

drawing out

something in me

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Brian Rickert

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spring thaw

all that remains

is a carrot nose

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Nancy Brady

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the sea deep blue mackerel sky

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Carl Walsh

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white waves

as if I’m deep                                      

in spring snow

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Jenny Fraser

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season's change

the mountain lets go

of a river

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Ravi Kiran

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dusk stillness

a water rat glides

between ripples

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Marilyn Humbert

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Atlantic storm

something rolls through

my dreamscape

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Anne Burgevin

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high tide

the wavering line  

of goodbye

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Jenny Fraser

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car park puddles

mirrors to show the sunset

how it looks in red

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David Kujawa

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paddling around

a wobbly moon

spaniel paws

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Joanna Ashwell

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   drifting between

the stars and the river

      therefore i am  

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Kevin Valentine

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skimming the lake mist the night heron’s croak

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Bruce Feingold

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rocky shore

a child refugee's eyes

hold the stars

 

Chen-ou Liu

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icicles

lengthening

this night

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Ben Gaa

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we forget

who we are…

moonlit sea

 

Tony Williams