Spring Flower

spring flower

(4/15/01)

_________First Place__________

lush grass -

one crocus delays

the first cut

Ben

 ________Second Place________

as if a cloud had settled

into the wild grass . . .

sweet alyssum

-naia 

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spring evening -

the scent of magnolia

and skunk

Earl Keener

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loves me, loves me not

too few petals

on this daisy

mary seabright

basement view

all the tulips

bent by rain

roberta beary

cloudy morning

the yellow crocus

tightly closed

Linda Robeck

towels stir

on the clothes line

scent of lilacs

DeVar

Suddenly

this morning

bright yellow crocus!

Florence V.

first spring alone

waking to your lilies

planted last year

Eileen Blas Schaefer

widower’s garden

the early tulips bloom

side by side with weeds

Victoria G. Pulgar

wisps from the dune

a fox pauses to water

some primroses

Darrell

buttercups

bowed in the rain

still as yellow

jennie townsend

morning sun–

a pink tulip floats

in rainwater

Kathy Lippard Cobb

young waitress

in a cotton kimono

cherry blossom tea

Carmen Sterba

mist clouds--

gathering baby's breath

for the shower bouquet

Ellen Compton

Spring garden

lily of the valley

in seclusion.

Carmel C. Lively

mother's garden

blue butterflies lilt

between pansies

 kirsty

pink hepaticas

ring the moss covered rock -

afternoon sunshine

Edward

bouquets of lilies

surround the altar

Easter Sunday

Becky Bunsic (Tukiko)

sun comes out

the neglected garden awash

with crocus

Rob Scott

my walk-away wife

      the narcissus she planted bloom

Gary Steinberg

black and white tulips

drawn on rice paper-

Hare Moon

Dove

blood root

between my fingers

Easter morning

Nancy Smith

poppy seed cake

in a paper napkin

ants in the lilac tree

Laurene

Under the poppies

And monuments of stone

All the heros are still dead.

Bob Parker

lesser celadine

the forest edge spangled

with bright yellow stars

max verhart

not again!

the tulip tips disappear

with the phantom deer

joyce maxner

Palm Sunday --

tender white blooms wreathe

prickly cactus thorns

MaryJane Turner

white lily

rests on the gray stone

thoughts of her

James M. Thompson

Daffodils in spring

to a poet joy they'd bring

but I'm no such thing.

Chris Swift.

In the vase on my desk

last week freesias

this week sweet peas

Bettina Davis

rootings for power

by mammoth old tree this spring...

still no magnolias

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