Autumn Wildflower

autumn wildflower

(10/18, 1998)

First Place   at Indian Lake   a thistle   grips a white feather                           JoannSecond Place   show and tell   trembling in her hands   a burdock's bur  copyright 10/12/1998 by Wendy C. BialekThird Place   in an alley   behind the coffee shop   chicory            soji   after the frost,   sunflower petals falling   one by one               Dennis H. Dutton   spikes of blazing star -   a butterfly hovers   over the garden shears                           doris kasson   BELOW THIRD PLACE   stopping our walk   for almost a quarter hour   wild geranium                  Charles Trumbull        bitterweed -        gold bouquets adorn        cow pasture                     Elsie Canfield           from a distant city           I recall the goldenrod           which guards my home                                 hilary tann                a crisp breeze                searching for gentian -                scent of wood smoke                                     lee ana schaefer                     stone rabbits                     in the Cosmos flowers                     the cat sits patiently by                                               Jeanne Zastera   purple loosestrife   shedding color in the   family Bible                 tom williams      with a jolt,      a grasshopper leaping      from the goldenrod                          Laura         pale asters         in the broken cliff layers         red-pine roots                         Paul MacNeil            sunrise ~            a blaze of red and purple            morning glories                             Betty                 kettle moraine walk;                 a pale wild geranium                 by the parking lot                                     Joe Kirschner                     early morning chill-                     white oleander blossoms                     peer through the fog                                            Carolyne                         October blooms                         are for others- in the mountains                         snow blankets the ground                                                    Gary Steinberg   low sun   the heather's   blue pollen                Hugh Waterhouse       asters       on the meadow       a goat herd                     -ito          pink flowers created          her blooming rose hips          built for marmelade                               emile molhuysen              on sluggish stream-              feather and goldenrod bloom              migrate south                    R. W. Richardson {c 10-12-98}                                                    

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