Pier

pier

(10/1/00)

_________First Place__________low tide sandpipers race under the pier  Patrick   

 ________Second Place________end of the pier - the voices of gulls  cut through the fog  Alison Williams

 _________Third Place________    summer drought  tied to the pier the other end of a rope  rjscott

_________Below Third Place________

the smells of wood,tar and sea - an old pier  Darrell

old photographs - the pier of my childhood shrouded in fog  hortensia anderson

mist covers the pier - a long goodbye  Luke Penfield

autumn storm -- the groans of mooring lines surge up the pier  --Rick

derelict pier-

a pair of lovers

watch the moon rise

Sue

a long way home a stretch of the pier extends into the fog  arkady

spinning slowly at the end of the pier - a carousel  hilary tann

dry pond...         a pier sinks in         the sound of crickets  Christopher Patchel

from the pier a pelican surveys each passing swell  -naia.

at pier's edge

fishing

a cat dangles its paws

Jaloe

missing planks-- one less footstep to cross the pier  Cindy Tebo

autumn winds ~ the old pier stills the ocean  Tore Sverredal

lightening -- the pier flashes white  Carol Raisfeld

the fisherman casts a long shadow upon the pier  Suzanne McIntire

flash flood an empty canoe floats over the pier  Mark Brooks

new pier - the pigeons still gather at dusk  Yu Chang

old pier

the ocean retakes

the beach

gary steinberg

gasps-- naked boys jump off the pier  in the mountain lake  DeVar

lulled to sleep on the cabin cruiser tethered to the pier  Joann

pier sentries atop each pylon a seagull  Sue Torres

a gull's feet

grip the barnacled pier -

autumn rain

susan bond

still stuck in mud sits the rotting boat under the leaning pier  peigi

nuns on the pier -- white habits flap to the rhythm of waves  Magda

dilapidated pier - flotsam clings to the pilings  doris kasson

crossing the sky --

wavelets of light

lap at the pier

Earl

morning low tide green overgrown pier shows all glossy cockles  emile molhuysen

fisherman's ice drips through the pier - - - eye of a hurricanecopyright 9/26/2000 by Wendy C. Bialek 

yesterday tender

today very brutish

the sea's play with the pier

max verhart

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