Touchstone Award Nominees for The Shadow Pond Journal Issue Two Winter 2023

 

the sideway sway 

of conjoined willows 

bossa nova

Elliot Diamond, USA 

dynamite scars the skin of a mountain face 

Barry Levine, USA 

foggy morning 

the soft edge

of a crows call

Linda Lee Ludwig,  USA 

earth goddess

a cluster of violets 

tucked behind one ear 

Kelly Sargent,  USA 

mango breeze lost in language 

Srini, India 

blue crown

of cornflower petals  -

gas ring 

Sue Spiers, UK

the wind in withered grass a sparrow 

Joshua St Claire,  USA 

why do we kiss

under the mistletoe 

snow angels 

Alan Summers,  UK 

great blue heron

the whole river

in its wings 

Stephen Toft, UK 

a thread

in a tapestry 

the earthworm's masterpiece 

Robert Witmer,  Japan