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Special Mentions
Several poems scored well above the average, and a few poets accumulated
high overall point scores for their respective bodies of work. Although
they didn’t receive awards, it is clear that these poems and poets have
made lasting impressions and richly deserve to be honored by inclusion
in this Valentine Awards issue.
New Year’s Eve bath —
I fail to become
a swan
Fay Aoyagi
Hokusai’s Wave
a child shapes his fingers
into claws
Pamela Miller Ness
spring morning
the raven goes
where the wind went
Elizabeth Searle Lamb
tai chi
with my wife
morning glories open
Randy M. Brooks
there must be light
where they came from —
chestnut blossoms
Gabriel Rosenstock
spring scents
my dog and I walk
through different worlds
Kirsty Karkow
my father’s globe
so many countries
with wrong names
Gary Warner
animal skull
the child fingers
her eye
Tom Painting
gaunt children
selling old bayonets —
noonday sun
Kylan Jones-Huffman
a field of crickets . . .
stepping in the spaces
between their songs
Stephen Amor
bird house empty of seed
even the jays
look for Bernard
Francine Porad
single living
I allow the kettle
a full whistle
Carmen Sterba
twilight
a child’s pail taken
by the tide
Cherie Hunter Day
village square —
old faces borrowing angles
from the stone
H. F. Noyes
the nail sinking in —
my father’s hammer
in my hand
Gary Hotham
a purple tree
when did I stop
being young?
Katherine Cudney
the corner
where nothing grows —
moonlight
Brian Gierat
autumn chill —
a butterfly swept up
with the leaves
Cindy Zackowitz
open hospice door
a path of moonlight
across the sea
William Cullen, Jr.
headstone
a dash
between the years
Francis Masat
ice moon —
the cat grooms away
my touch
Linda Jeannette Ward
stone garden —
this morning the islands
float on snow
Kuniharu Shimizu
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