Summer Breeze

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uploading to the cloud dandelions

 

Marilyn Ashbaugh

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first day of summer 

the scent of loam

on my palms

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Theresa A. Cancro

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early dawn     
airing the house               
with birdsong

 

Claire Ninham

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mountain laurel

butterflies dapple

our ascent

 

Bryan Rickert

 

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spring wind

the murmur of pollen

taking shape

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F Chambliss

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daybreak 

a robin’s egg nestled 

among the hailstones

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Eric Sundquist

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sunny mist...

the clear way

a cow moos

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David He Zhuanglang

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still blue sky

lawn sprinkler chatter

the lull of eternity

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Eve Castle

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new nests -

the sound of the wind

completely different

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Julia Guzmán

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soft breeze...

the toes of a goldfinch grasp

the thistle

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Dorothy Burrows

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trying to pull it together scattered clouds

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Lori Becherer

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mountain ridge

I walk

in the sky

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Pat Davis

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bright east winds

corrugate the lake,

no swallows yet

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Jim Lloyd

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mining silver

from the silver maple

the slightest breeze

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Jonathan Humphrey

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robin’s egg

a shade warmer

than the rest of the sky

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Lorraine Padden

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blackbirds sing

the morning loose

ground fog

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Adrian Bouter

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Whitethorn

pale mist

wetting your lips

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Bri Bruce

 

 

high wind -  

sunlight shaken

from a raven’s wing

 

John Low

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a warm wind across the meadows the hum of bees

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Clive Bennett

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summit park bench

the bird’s-eye view

in focus

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Christine Wenk-Harrison

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cordwood

stacked

sunlight

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Jeff Hoagland

 

 

holding an oil-paper umbrella

a girl wanders

in osmanthus rain

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Ling Ge

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thundercloud...

a greenfly navigates

an old cat’s fur

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Thomas Powell

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summer sky

the stillness

of a kestrel

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Ingrid Baluchi

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shrine

to this stranger’s life

spring breeze

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Aidan Castle

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June legato             

a curlew’s call

colours the moor

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Claire Ninham

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thunderclap

the front goose

banks a turn

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David Matta

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holding onto 

summer’s light

daisy chains 

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Tina Mowrey

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vernal equinox

the wind rattles against

a discarded snakeskin

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Almila Dükel

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alpine trail

the breath

we give away

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Debbie Strange

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equinox the old guest still on the couch

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P. H. Fischer

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poetic licence the fly a dragonfly

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Nick Hoffman

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summer walk

no matter the path...

gnats

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Kim Klugh

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distant thunder -

a cow's tongue 

against the salt lick

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Theresa A. Cancro

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sunny shower
circuiting the cathedral roof
selfie-sticks

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Dorothy Burrows

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dry heat

the snap of the flag

as it laps the sky

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Agnes Eva Savich

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party trash...

a parliament of crows

on the wire

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Dorothy Burrows

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summer breeze 

billowing curtains

keeping secrets

 

Althea Watson

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storm brews   tea beneath the canopy

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Carl Walsh

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the eyrie above me

sways in the wind—

forest fire moon

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Michael Dylan Welch

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the rhythm of corn country rain

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Adrian Bouter

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an open plain

lightning reveals

coyote eyes

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John Han

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hawk thermals

the slow circling

of our binoculars

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Brad Bennett

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Sunday sermon drifting in the summer air dust motes

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Lee Hudspeth

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folding umbrellas at day’s end purple clover

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June Rose Dowis

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hearing loss

the first thing to go

is chickadees 

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Bryan Rickert

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in the talons

of a fishing eagle

a glint of dusk

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Ravi Kiran

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crow antics

a shadow tags

a tourist

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Brad Bennett

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setting sun

a final few rays through

his tumbledown wall

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Tony Williams

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summer by summer

how much easier

to cry at sunset

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Keith Evetts

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my in-breath

and out-breath

twilight

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Alvin B. Cruz

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summer moon rising

watching fireflies

merge with stars

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Linda Ludwig

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back to normal

after lockdowns…

hazy night sky

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yn ôl i normal

ar ôl y cyfnodau clo…

awyr niwlog y nos

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Earl Livings

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pacemaker the space between fireflies

 

Lorraine Padden

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moths flutter

around the porch light

summer moon

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Paula Sears

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colour of the pebble

the child carried home -

summer moon 

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Deborah A. Bennett

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fireflies sparking a field a poem 

 

Kristen Lindquist

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what's left

after the spring rain

jazz evening

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Mircea Moldovan

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pregnant

with possibility

first quarter moon

 

Nancy Orr

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summer stars
sheep in the eyes
of a shepherd

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Jonathan Humphrey

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last fireworks

the shapes of smoke filling

with moonlight

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Evan Vandermeer

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passing stars

the ticking

of the universe

 

Keith Evetts

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Summer Trees 

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morning sun the tablesaw leans into the smell of cedar

 

John Pappas

 

 

kapok pod bursts

the words forgotten

in my sleep

 

Kathabela Wilson

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lily pollen

the morning stained

with dreams

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Jonathan Humphrey

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breakfast al fresco

a bee circles

the honey jar

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Christine Wenk-Harrison

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almost dawn

rain washes away

the birdsong

 

Ravi Kiran

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sunrise

a joey crawls

into the pouch

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Kendall Lott

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fallen figs

the small price we pay

for rosellas at dawn

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Mark Miller

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a grain of sand

what matters

to an ant

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Pat Davis

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main street at dawn -

all the pot holes full

of cherry blossoms 

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Deborah A. Bennett

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morning church bells

a group of yellow tulips

tilts

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Evan Vandermeer

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birdsong

a soft rain

sharpens

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Mike White

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first wellies  

she picks a dandelion

for nanna

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Mike Gallagher

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first day of summer
the bees in the trees
an octave higher

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Tony Williams

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jiggering chrysalis—

sunlight, now

to the base of the bush

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Michael Dylan Welch

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millipede

the magnanimity

of living slow

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Ramesh Anand

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cocooned 

by a low-hanging maple

our talk of god

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Aidan Castle

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feeding time

the grackle shares

its love

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Deborah Burke Henderson

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end of Spring

the buds of peonie

one by one

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Francoise Maurice

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spring ginko walk
journal pages fill
with pollen

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Lori Becherer

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suddenly an insect wing looking at leaves

 

Alan Peat

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should’ve missed them sooner starlings on the green

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Wendy Gent

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summer’s edge —

a buttercup

under her chin

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Wendy Gent

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open canopy  

vanishing in rising fog

a wood warbler’s song

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Althea Watson

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Zen garden

a tiny butterfly folds itself

into cherry blossom

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Agus Maulana Sunjaya

 

one year post Covid scentless lilac

 

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Lori Becherer

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forest walk I become the birdsong  

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Mona Bedi

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the unspoken

between us

honeysuckle

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Agnes Eva Savich

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moments shared 

each summer leaf  

catching the light 

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Jenny Fraser

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raising the shade a blaze of azaleas

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Ruth Holzer

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a stone in her tiny hand once a mountain

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Pravat Kumar Padhy

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forest trail

gloss of a wild blackberry

in the magpie’s beak

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Mark Miller

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rural railway

a blur

of old man's beard

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Ingrid Baluchi

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midday warmth

the yellow willow's

leaf-strewn shade

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Evan Vandermeer

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on both sides

of the tank tracks

wildflowers

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Ravi Kiran

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my teeth press

the pliant Turkish apricot

summer Sunday

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Jeanne Cook

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dog days

a boy chases

the ice cream truck

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Greg S

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I will go now
where my eyes carry me
poplar fluff

 

Ernest Wit

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how suddenly

the butterfly's shadow

takes my troubles

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Eve Castle

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banana stems all differently same on the inside

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Ramesh Anand

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patchouli …
the lingering strings
of a sitar

 

David J Kelly

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heat haze

the beetle straddles

a saguaro pleat

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Bill Cooper

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startled yearly

by your beauty

bold forsythia

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Debbie Scheving

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deep woods

we share all the greens 

of an avocado

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Joshua St. Claire

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earthen birdbath a sparrow spills summer clouds 

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Neena Singh

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afternoon tea—

a skipper nectaring

on a thistle

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Laurie Morrissey

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dry leaf… 

the argument that loses

its worth 

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Hifsa Ashraf

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slipping through my fingers blueberries

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Roberta Beach Jacobson

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wild iris
she says the name
does not matter

 

Srinivasa Rao Sambangi

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dead wasp

in the honeycomb

distant thunder

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Bisshie

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sudden death

his garden full

of ripe plums

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Máire Morrissey Cummins

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summer dance...

old farmers

baling hay

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Mariangela Canzi

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Queen Anne's lace

the bustle of everyone

minding their own business

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Ingrid Baluchi

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heatwave

yet all along the road 

red peacock flowers 

Minal Sarosh

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almost home

a bumblebee laden

with lavender

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Bill Cooper

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damp earth

the garden is flooded

by dandelions

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Almila Dükel

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small hands 

releasing lightning 

bugs

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Kimberly Kuchar

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the silk tunnel

of a webspinner . . .

self-isolation

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Debbie Strange

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tolling of the bell . . .

throughout the ceremony

the cicada’s cry

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Anthony Lusardi

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spray-painted

on a broken support beam

red poppy

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Anthony Lusardi

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chaste tree

the long-lasting bloom

of a summer shadow

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Pippa Phillips

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plover tracks . . .

the every which way

of my thoughts

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Barrie Levine

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thunderclap--

urging the sapling

to grow in my lifetime

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Ruth Holzer

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acting out the scent of wildflowers

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Aidan Castle

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tangled love

red foxes

braiding tracks

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Jeff Hoagland

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red dog barking

into the void -

cornfield at dusk

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Deborah A. Bennett

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the strange sweetness

of heading toward nothingness

the spent hyacinth

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Jeanne Cook

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deer blending into dusk

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Kim Klugh

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evening glow

filling the word deer

with deer

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Jonathan Humphrey

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dusk moon

a badger path curves

the field’s corner

 

Thomas Powell

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touching

the ordinary

fireflies

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Richa Sharma

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summer twilight 

feeling her movements 

when she's gone

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Bruce Feingold

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pine forest                

the soft murmuring                    

of night shadows  

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Gavin Austin

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racing past

the rising moon

evening train

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Jim Force

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no one within hearing the stars

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Mike White

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moss on the footbridge

treading without 

a sound

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Laurie Greer

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hiding the dates

on the slate headstone

moonglow lichen 

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Kristen Lindquist

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heat wave . . .

voices on the front stoop

drift past midnight

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Barrie Levine

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beanstalk hanging from the spring moon

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Mircea Moldovan

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yesterdays—

through the screen

the stars

 

Lee Hudspeth

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Summer Seas 

 

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