Star
star
(2/26/02)
_________First Place__________
midnight swim --
she lowers herself
into stars
Rob Scott
________Second Place________
evening star
a white gardenia
in her hair
Linda Robeck
_________Third Place________
through my fingers
slip two minnows
and a star
mary seabright
tall grasses ripple
around the iron star -
grandfather's grave
MaryJane Turner
shooting star
the glow of a firefly
zigzaging
Angèle Lux
_________Below Third Place________
frosty night
above the chimney
shooting stars
Carol Raisfeld
glass wind chimes
on the back porch
the sound of stars
hortensia anderson
first falling star
the divorce papers
unopened
-roberta beary
mother's day-
I teach my child
to wish on stars
Dove
cloudless sky
smoke from the burning trash
dims the stars
Johannes Manjrekar
stargazing
my hand warms the ring
on your finger
Earl Keener
cricket song
a shaggy tree interrupts
the stars
Heather Madrone
falling star
hot coals flicker
in her eyes
Darrell Byrd
starless cold night
the star-spangled banner
on his coffin
Michel
mail order bride
in the winter sky
different stars
Edward
drifting to sleep
under a field of stars--
grandmother's quilt
Suzanne Finnegan
stars--
the salt taste
of a tear
o
shooting star -
a rainbow trout
arc's the moon
karina
frozen breath
clings to his scarf -
twinkling stars
Laurene Post
moonlit night --
adrift in a canoe
they count the stars
betty
the little girl
turns off her bedroom light
glow-in-the-dark stars
DeVar
balmy breeze--
we paddle the canoe
through stars
Kathy Lippard Cobb
playful puppy
slapping the stars
in his water dish
Pam Molhuysen
the lighthouse
in a sea breeze --
faint stars
Martin Gottlieb Cohen
kiting at night
my favourite ku on its
way to the stars
emile molhuysen
star attraction
signs hush the crowd
at the panda cage
Carmel C. Lively
breathless night
starlight dances
in the pond
soji
chinese new year
the star-spangled banner
blooms in the sky
Angie
midnight
storm clouds blow away
from the stars
Celia Crook
old woman . . .
your children gather like stars
'round the moon
-naia
frozen stars--
a little family walks
hand in hand
Ellen Dodds
coming home -
the black black night
one star
Marylouise Knight
counting them
again and again--
those impossible stars
Mary Lee McClure
they said it would rain
but there's a star in the sky
over the city
john
casting call
all she ever wanted
was to be a star
~A Ramey
Middle-aged woman--
on the lifeline in her palm,
a star at midpoint.
Karma Tenzing Wangchuk
locked out
and staring at the stars
winter night
gary steinberg
just a star gazer
he tells her
- the peeping tom
doris kasson
starless night
a young woman applies glitter
above her eyes
Carmen Sterba
winter cold
the snow sparkles
in the starshine
Tore Sverredal
Four star restaurant:
o-sashimi, o-sushi -
Xmas Day dinner
Horst Ludwig
two wandering stars...
constellation flies
on the dark bull
chibi
the star at dawn
still at same space
until the Sun returns
Terry Ishii
Crescent moonlit
Apricot petals fly away
Stars catch aroma~
Etsuko
skiing at midnight
over thawing whiteness
enveloped by stars
Edith Muta
star disappears
in gathering clouds...
reappears
Gene Williamson
frozen stars -
a requiem on
the midnight radio
Kim Komurasaki
slumped on a red-eye...
heart of star bridled darkness
pegasus to flight
art
knots of blue white-
hot new born stars glow
with first light
kathi rudawsky
home late
looking up a at blanket of stars
hoping to see one fall
P. M. Burke
showtime:
the night sky... starring
zodiac creatures
joyce maxner
first night of the new moon
I walk in silence
beneath a canopy of stars
Becky Bunsic (tukiko)
one star
is enough
to make a wish
Janet Parker
above the highway
stars throbbing
in frozen black canopy
Hazel
from space
earth lights
look like stars
Carol Sircoulomb