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2024 Touchstone Poem Award Nominees
The editors are pleased to announce our nominees for The Haiku Foundation's 2024 Touchstone Poem awards. Our thanks to the authors of these poems. We wish them luck!
whale song . . .
the names they don't etch
into a monument
Aidan Castle
beachcombing . . .
the B-side
of a stone
Alan S. Bridges
evening hush
the swish
of a horse's tail
David Gale
birthday card
the handwriting
is always mom's
Seth Friedman
moving day
the sound of my parents' van
thins into rain
Antoinette Cheung
New Year's eve
the weight of my body
as the bath drains
Ben Oliver
autumn wilderness—
the beginnings
of a path
P M F Johnson
a shade lighter
the scrubbed beam beneath the eaves
where the nest has been
Andre Le Mont Wilson
mayfly mayfly
mayfly mayfly mayfly
mayfly mayfly
one night stand
Jeff Hoagland
sunset glow
my shadow lengthens
homewards
Nitu Yumnam
prairie storm—
the colour of
day-old bruises
Sally Quon
drifting snow
the sales meeting
drifing by
Tony Pupello
thunder
one last cast
before the storm
John Savoie
lillies of the field
how to tell my children
that I'm sorry
Joshua Gage
magpie
the weight of my hand
without my ring
Katie Montagnao
2022 Touchstone Poem Award Nominees
seashells
collecting the days
before boys
Tia Haynes
her slow pulse
dawn arrives
with rain
paul m.
my heart
the shape of bedsheets
in the dark
John Newson
false indigo my faith in flowers
Peter Newton
autumn rain my hospital wrist band
Deborah P Kolodji
airport taxi …
all the reasons
leave with her
Myron Arnold
my son asks
if we are poor
Sunday rain
Robert Piotrowski
the tidal shore
of consciousness
falling snow
Agnes Eva Savich
missing from her effects
the hum of bees
in wisteria
Michelle Root-Bernstein
2021 Touchstone Poem Award Nominees
open all night
the waitress gazes into
her reflection
Bill Kenney
season after season
grass rises and rises
my husband
Grace Cavalieri
spring sun
still some winter
in the turtle
Laurie D. Morrissey
first frost
the breaths of geese
on the field
Jacquie Pearce
sweet potato
the peeling away
of intimacy
Joanna Ashwell
reclining seals
the still life
of the sea
Peter Newton
a rainy day inside what I am
Lori Becherer
a tanker truck stamped flammable the summer moon
paul m.
smooth in my hand the stone’s long journey
David Berger
stepping stones
across the stream
interrupted sky
Brad Bennett
mountain path
almost reaching
the Milky Way
Nadejda Kostadinova
redwoods the rain that never reaches us
Cherie Hunter Day
through a cedar grove
the flickering lights
of an RV park
John Budan
weaned calf
the mountaintop
swallowed by clouds
Polona Oblak
new year’s eve
the kiss
of beer froth
Agnes Eva Savich
chemotherapy
I stop by the barbershop
just to say hello
Bill Kenney
my youth
where the tree
where the treehouse was
Alan S. Bridges
memorial bench
a ladybug rests
on your name
Antoinette Cheung
her evening alone
the paparazzi
of fireflies
Dan Schwerin
counting days
by pill dispenser
the waning light
Valorie Broadhurst Woerdehoff
mayfly mayfly
mayfly mayfly mayfly
mayfly mayfly
one night stand
Jeff Hoagland
sunset glow
my shadow lengthens
homewards
Nitu Yumnam
prairie storm—
the colour of
day-old bruises
Sally Quon*
drifting snow
the sale meeting
drifing by
Tony Pupello
thunder
one last cast
before the storm
John Savoie
lillies of the field
how to tell my children
that I'm sorry
Joshua Gage
magpie
the weight of myhand
without my ring
Katie Montagnao