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bedtime
she covers the moon
with her thumb
-Harriot Terry West
Eugene, OR, USA
(bottle rockets 18) |
winter night
with the sky peeled back
all these stars
-Greg Schwartz
Owings Mills, MD, USA |
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midnight bus
the door swings open
to moonlight
-Laurence Stacey
Powder Springs, GA, USA |
October wind...
goblins knocking
at my door
-Greg Schwartz
Owings Mills, MD, USA |
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 tornado watch-
my brother builds
a pillow fort
-Laurence Stacey
Powder Springs, GA, USA
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with a huff
and a puff...
dandelion
-Laurence Stacey
Powder Springs, GA, USA |
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hide and seek
the shadow of a leaf
touches my shadow
-Lynne Rees
Antibles, Cote dAzur, France |
the playground
fills with children
light through red leaves
-Terry Ann Carter
Ottawa, Canada |
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 across the border
the maples
also, red
-Terry Ann Carter
Ottawa, Canada
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alien sighting
my brother palms
a cicada skin
-Laurence Stacey
Powder Springs, GA, USA |
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the new baby
uncurls his fists
I count to ten
-Lynne Rees
Antibles, Cote dAzur, France |
recess
all the little fingers
in the puzzle
-Terry Ann Carter
Ottawa, Canada |
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an icicle
melts in my mitten
I say Im sorry
-Lynne Rees
Antibles, Cote dAzur, France |
first frost
a slight dent
in the tetherball
-Chad Lee Robinson
Pierre, South Dakota, USA |
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falling snow
the hens warmth
in the egg
-Harriot Terry West
Eugene, OR, USA
(Frogpond XXX:2 and dust of summers: Red Moon Anthology 2007) |
 ESL classroom
snowflakes
multicoloured
-Terry Ann Carter
Ottawa, Canada
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by the dentist's chair
a bowl
of lollipops
-Laurence Stacey
Powder Springs, GA, USA |
tangerine haze
a boy squints at the sun
through a lollipop
-Harriot Terry West
Eugene, OR, USA
(bottle rockets 17) |
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spring sun
the child pockets
a penny
-Chad Lee Robinson
Pierre, South Dakota, USA |
the silly carrot
wears only bright orange clothes
and green pony tails
-Jo Carol Hebert
Bryan, TX, USA |
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Granddads birthday
we pull up bunches
of baby beets
-Lynne Rees
Antibles, Cote dAzur, France |
welcoming tourists
the tulips open
a little wider
-Terry Ann Carter
Ottawa, Canada
(Ottawa Tulip Festival 2007) |
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scribble scrabble on
paper playing bumper
cars with a crayon
-Jess Stork
Fairfax, VA, USA |
kids in the park
the squeak
of old swings
-Terry Ann Carter
Ottawa, Canada |
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summer
night
a spoon scraping
an empty bowl
-Chad Lee Robinson
Pierre, South Dakota, USA |
at the top of the hill
I am still
the same size
-Lynne Rees
Antibles, Cote dAzur, France |
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 blue butterfly
I keep coming back
to the same place
-Peggy Lyles
Tucker, GA, USA
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stepping stones
the river changes
its tune
-Harriot Terry West
Eugene. OR, USA |
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the small piece of tide
in each small shell
-Terry Ann Carter
Ottawa, Canada |
imagining
tiny white shells
in the chalk
-Fonda Bell Miller
Alexandria, VA, USA |
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deep summer
the dirty bottoms
of bare feet
-Chad Lee Robinson
Pierre, South Dakota, USA |
 at my feet
a slice of sky
bluest little dragonfly
-Michael Moore
DeSoto, TX, USA
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daffodils-
a laughing girl
with rain in her shoe
-Peggy Llyes
Tucker, GA, USA |
a horse being shoed-
my puppy is also hitting
the air with its paw
-Vasile Moldovan
Bucharest, Romania |
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yellow bug car
waits while a box turtle
crossestheroad
-Fonda Bell Miller
Alexandria, VA, USA |
only after saving the turtle thinking of karma
-Johnette Downing
New Orleans, LA, USA |
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making believe-
the story tellers voice
scales a wall
-Peggy Llyes
Tucker, GA, USA |
August morning
a platoon of ducks
patrol the bay
-Greg Schwartz
Owings Mills, MD, USA |
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hey cuckoo nestling
come hither go hang around with
the street children
-Vasile Moldovan
Bucharest, Romania |
walking in sunlight
so many things undone
first day of school
-Fonda Bell Miller
Alexandria, VA, USA |
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pencils sharp sharp
my feet on the floor
flat flat
-Fonda Bell Miller
Alexandria, VA, USA |
trail of leaves
the childs plastic rake
missing teeth
-Chad Lee Robinson
Pierre, South Dakota, USA |
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after a yoke day
the buffalo goes to graze with
a crow on his back
-Vasile Moldovan
Bucharest, Romania |
on a reed
orange dragonfly
a flame
-Michael Moore
DeSoto, TX , USA |
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