Words

words

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First Place

harsh words-

tree branches

criss-cross the moon

Sue

Second Place

winter moon

in the air between us

her words

Rob Krevitz

Third Place

in silence

watching her form words

with her hands

Joann

BELOW Third PLACE

on the page

moving among the words

a tiny speck

Max Verhart

two tapping canes

pass in the alameda ...

no words spoken

Charles Trumbull

in the fireplace

charred love letters

-the last word

jean king

from the cloisters

the sound of plainchant

too faint for words

hilary tann

frail hands tremble

yellowed paper held close

words blurring

tansia

misspelled words

in my fortune cookie

"hippiness is yours"

Gary Warner

can't find

enough words

to thank yu

doris kasson

before sleep --

the words to a prayer

I had forgotten

Harold

quiet morning walk

among millions of snowflakes -

at a loss for words

ebj

eating her words

wishing they hadn't been

so bitter

Maleti (Mary Lee McClure)

just one word

carelessly spoken

avalanche

Pardee Gunter

his last words

falling

on the barber's floor

finding --

in the fortune cookie

words she had wished for

Betty

wordless . . .

until I hear that music

Joseph Kirschner

Comforting the words,

in a starless, moonless night,

"I love you too."

Don Wharram

her body language

at great distance

clear words to me

emile molhuysen

coarse words in the barn -

dairy cows in chains

munching silage

Tim

the bad words

she's saved

just for me

Hugh Waterhouse

cyberspace

words

pass

through

eacotherh

Dennis H. Dutton

shoveling snow ~

words exchanged about weather

with rarely seen neighbor

soji

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