New Year

(1/26, 1997)

FIRST PLACE

new year's day

behind the dusty jars

a broken cocoon

--Marco Fraticelli

SECOND PLACE

pulling at cobwebs

stuck to the broom -

New Year's Resolutions

--Doris Kasson

THIRD PLACE

New Year's morning

finding three green olives

in my shoe

--Ferris

BELOW Third PLACE

new year

the kanji on the rice paper

still wet

--Yu Chang

New Year's dawn

between the withered leaves

a lone jonquil

--Neca

a chance meeting

with an old friend

these new year skies

--Sue Stanford

new year lamb

mama's belly

your sky

--Lee Lawton

the New Year ahead...

up from the iron pan

yesterday's ginger

--Laura Young

sunlight fills

the diary's blank page

...new year's day

--roberta beary

New Year's Day...

last night's quarrel

still not resolved

--Charles Trumbull

New Year's Day -

the grey squirrel content

in last year's nest

--Jeanne Emrich

New Year ritual:

seven candles for loved ones--

lighting the last first

--Elizabeth St. Jacques

new year's day

the calendar

so neat

-- jk

my little grandson

unaware of New Year's Day

hums a Christmas Song

--fred flohr

New Years day

pedaling dawn streets

all to myself

--Michael Rubey

almost New Year-

bubbles of ditchgasses

caught in ice

--Arnold Vermeeren

frosted stiff

this New Year's azalea-

will it bloom in spring?

--Paul MacNeil

in silence

between words

the new year and the old

--zuiho

New Year's storm

the tree's frozen drips

pointing skyward

~Francine Porad

New Year sprout

cracks clay and ice

running from the tuber's eye

--Ed Shaheen

New Years

a cotton white snowfall

blankets the day

--Susan

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