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2022 Touchstone Poem Award Nominees

The editors are pleased to announce our nominees for The Haiku Foundation's 2022 Touchstone Poem awards. Our thanks to the authors of these poems. We wish them luck!

seashells

collecting the days

before boys

 

Tia Haynes

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her slow pulse

dawn arrives

with rain

 

paul m. 

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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

 

 

 

 

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airport taxi …

all the reasons

leave with her

 

Myron Arnold

 

 

my son asks

if we are poor

Sunday rain

 

Robert Piotrowski

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the tidal shore

of consciousness

falling snow

 

Agnes Eva Savich

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missing from her effects

the hum of bees

in wisteria

 

Michelle Root-Bernstein


 

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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

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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

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redwoods the rain that never reaches us

 

Cherie Hunter Day


 

through a cedar grove

the flickering lights

of an RV park

 

John Budan

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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

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her evening alone

the paparazzi

of fireflies

 

Dan Schwerin


 

counting days

by pill dispenser

the waning light

 

Valorie Broadhurst Woerdehoff

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