Early Winter

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light rain

words trickle 

onto the page

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Jackie Chou

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guavas

the strong smell of 

winter ripening

 

Minal Sarosh

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kayak lake

a hurricane swirls 

from the paddle

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Kat Lehmann

 

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hospice dawn

a willow disappears

in river mist

 

Maurice Nevile

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morning light

touching the sea

that touches me

 

Alvin B Cruz

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full day moon

river oysters

picked clean

 

Bryan Rickert

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October petal rain I have everything

 

Owen Bullock

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morning quiet

an old raindrop

joggles a fern

 

Hannah Mahoney

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catching 

the river's song 

willow roots

 

Ben Oliver

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tiered garden 

the climb

to the sage

Laurie Greer

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all my stories

all my secrets

bramble patch

 

Marietta McGregor

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under galaxies
stamens glowing white
on the cider gum

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Kristen Lang

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bend in the river

why not take the scenic route

to oblivion

 

Keith Evetts

 

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the zigzag of brown creepers meandering thoughts

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Debbie Strange

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October flowers

the second time

I hold your hand

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Ryland Li

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down to puddles

the creek minnows’

universe

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Bryan Rickert

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apple season

the branches ache with

the weight of sky

 

Vandana Parashar

 

 

still lake 

clouds 

miles deep

 

Owen Bullock

 

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some secrets 

better kept inside 

tree rings 

 

Vera Constantineau

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brown leaf carpet

I learn to walk

on what came before

 

Kat Lehmann

 

 

golden fish in the lake

what we become

when dreaming

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Radostina A. Dragostinova

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exposed roots

his little dig

mid-eulogy

 

Mike White

 

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family haveli

a spiral cobweb mends

the broken window

 

Hifsa Ashraf

 

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foggy sky

a baby opens

her fist

 

Erica Goss 

 

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a line of traffic honking geese head south

 

Kim Klugh

 

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bent over a pine and me the ocean storm 

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Bruce H. Feingold
 

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autumn chill

the what might have been

of old seeds

 

Bryan Rickert

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a splash

of color

wood ducks

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Jeff Hoagland

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old slave quarters

the tourist’s question

a sickle

 

Kemar Cummings

 

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swells

of waves

of shorebirds

 

Brad Bennett

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fog

the stillness trapped

in gorse hills

 

Maire Morrissey Cummins

 

 

V-sign
the way geese can fly to
another country

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Dorothy Burrows

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sundown

my mind puts a wolf

in the trees

 

Alan Peat

 

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autumn leaves swirling whiskey round the glass

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Stephen Toft

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becoming dusk jackals becoming dusk

 

Hemapriya Chellappan

 

 

sunset

the bleeding edge

of things

 

Alan Peat

 

 

birdsong

the twilight moon's climb 

higher and higher

 

Richa Sharma

 

 

into dusk

a nameless mountain

in its fullness

 

Richa Sharma

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in a rush of night wind the foxes yipping

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Ruth Holzer

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still water

a swan descends

on the moon

 

Maureen Edden

 

 

evening mist  -

the fisherman

counts his blessings

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Precious Oboe

 

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Mid Winter

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ice forming ~

the neighbourhood cat

gives me that look

 

Mark Gilbert

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not yet dawn only the yellow laburnum

 

Alaka Y

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morning milking

the silence

between cows

 

Laurie Morrissey

 

 

solstice

a robin cracks

the dawn

 

Debbie Olson

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this journey
to make alone –
the rising sun

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Anannya Dasgupta

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winding

into the valley mist                    

mountain ash

 

Gavin Austin

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a child 

must have conjured them -

dandelions in the snow 

 

Deborah A. Bennett

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on ice

eyes of the morning catch

cloudy

 

Alan Peat

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goldfinches

in the white pine

corn kernels pop

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Donna Fleischer

 

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frozen mountain stream

the percussion

of unseen pebbles

 

Roger Watson

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distant hills beyond the gate winter stillness

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Clive Bennett

 

 

darkening sky

the busy street blooms

umbrellas

 

Jonathan Roman

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a pocket

full of masks

family funeral

 

Maire Morrissey Cummins

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fog
we encounter
our monsters

Stefanie Bucifal

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gull cries

how a river

loses the land

 

Michael Baeyens

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a toddler

with tongue out

first snow

 

Alan Peat

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winter rain--

the depth of loneliness

in a stray dog's eye

 

Kevin Valentine

 

 

half open window -

a fly bumps into both 

sides of the story

 

Roman Lyakhovetsky

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deckled edges

of your letter . . .

drifting snow

 

Barrie Levine

 

 

canada geese

with swans in corn stubble

dinky toys

 

Nola Obee

 

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squall a gull resting in the middle of it

 

Stewart Baker

 

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more snow -

ice fills a scarecrow's

missing tooth

 

Neera Kashyap

 

 

one red fleck

in the egg yolk

partial eclipse

 

Marietta McGregor

 

 

just enough

of a pause

robin song

Joanna Ashwell

 

 

lone igloo

finding shelter

in a lie

 

Kemar Cummings

 

 

clacking railroad station tracks the driving sleet

 

Richard L. Matta

 

 

midwinter sickness the skimmia leaves yellow…

Claire Ninham

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the little pond

house to many -

floods away

 

Tanvi Jeph,

Aged 13

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snow on the pines

a whooping crane’s call

turns to mist

 

Hannah Mahoney

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braille cantata

tracing the S

of her spine

 

Kemar Cummings

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red light

the shortness

of a snowflake's life

 

Tomislav Sjekloća

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Christmas market - 

one more fairy tale 

I don’t belong to 

 

Roman Lyakhovetsky

 

 

by the hearth

a fire’s glow

on sallow skin

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Richard L. Matta

 

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Epiphany—

discovering a pine needle

with my bare toe

 

Joshua Gage

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cocktail party the geometry of chatter

 

Tom Bierovic

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the two of us

still groping in the dark

winter solstice

 

Natalia Kuznetsova

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crossroads grave - 

a cricket summoning

the moon

 

Roman Lyakhovetsky

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a long walk              

to the other side

of the owl

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Peter Newton

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winter sky . . .

starlight

on her stone

 

Barrie Levine

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ad astra

taillights on the road

to somewhere

 

Debbie Strange

 

 

cold coffee

the effortlessness

of moonlit flurries

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Joshua Gage

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candleshine through obsidian this ancient light
 

Ruth Holzer

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full moon

black sky

breathing hole

 

Erica Goss

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a prototype of courage amidst winter stars

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Shloka Shankar

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new year party
the poinsettia
also past it

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Roberta Beary

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winter sunset

an old fox limps

into the trees

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Chris Dean

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Winter Into Spring

 

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firethorn berries          

a solitary blackbird 

perches between seasons

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Claire Ninham

 

 

dawn paws through the cat door

 

P.H Fischer

 

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new calendar
i still circle
her birthday

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Roberta Beary

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blossoms drift

into this universe

you and me

 

Chen-ou Liu

 

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sunbeam 

the sweet surrender
of morning dew

 

Antonietta Losito

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morning commute

the last cricket

sputters out

 

Agnes Eva Savich

 

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catching the remaining strand

of the spider's web

morning sun

 

Mark Powderhill

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glittering water  

the only duck

transfigured  

 

John Low

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wildflower –

you are worthy

of self-love

 

C.X Turner

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the creek

crystal clear

a bellbird calls

 

Carl Walsh

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even the gator’s bellow

a form of prayer

new grass

 

Paul Reagan

 

 

hibiscus bud

I am still learning how 

to wait 

 

Minal Sarosh

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spring clean

stopping to watch

the white butterfly

 

Mark Powderhill

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low tide

beach stones exposed

where they are

 

Kristen Lindquist

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city trees

two ballerinas

en pointe 

 

Erica Goss

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reaching

beneath the surface

sunlight

 

Evan Coram

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crotchets-
rows of crows cawing
from telegraph wires

 

Dorothy Burrows

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in the right light a slug’s glide path    

 

Peter Newton

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in the rain shadow

I stand

blurred at the edges

 

Adele Evershed

 

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stock pond

filling me

with silence

 

Agnes Eva Savich

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blue sky
the pause before
the swing returns

 

Stephen Toft

 

 

distant drum beats down the sun

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P.H Fischer

 

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mountain lake

a double rainbow

completes itself

 

Richa Sharma

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home

a thousand times over

snow geese

Jonathan Humphrey

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fruit bats

leaving dusk tangled

in the trees  

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John Low

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the way
it softens the city
evening rain

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Ben Gaa

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goldcrest

low in the pine

a slip of sunset

 

Claire Ninham

 

 

dusk’s stillness

an otter slips

into water

 

Ernest Wit

 

 

hairpin turn

I ask for directions

to the moon

 

Erin Castaldi

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still waters   

a kangaroo drinks

the first stars

 

John Low

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Pluto

unlearning all that 

I learnt

 

Minal Sarosh

 

 

crack in the blinds

an octopus moon

finds its way

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Lorraine Padden

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after hours -

away from the street lights

your favourite star

 

Femi Akinyele

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end of lockdown

wasps party

inside a pear

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Mark Gilbert

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new moon

the empty space of

my unfinished haiku 

Manoj Sharma

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nightfall I keep the sun in myself

 

Mariangela Canzi

 

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runaway dog 

I, too, am not looking

to be found

Bryan Rickert