2024 Touchstone Nominees
Congratulations, poets!
As 2024 draws to a close, I want to share the poets who have been nominated for Touchstone Awards in the Individual Poems Category. Congratulations to this year’s nominees!
I’m planning a third year of Haiku Girl Summer for 2025, but I won’t post updates again until spring. Watch this space in a few months!
Adele Evershed
dry season
i xeriscape
my body
Barbara Anna Gaiardoni
view of the sea and sunset an asterisk
Barbara Sabol
high noon
the garden snail catches up
to its shadow
Barrie Levine
Betsy Hearne
loose stitches
a goldfinch
mends the sky
Carly Siegel Thorp
heat bugs
a cool breeze overtakes
a distant pewee
C.X. Turner
sea pink
growing wilder
when you leave
Deborah Karl-Brandt
kissing better
leaning into the touch
of a cooling breeze
Eavonka Ettinger
coral
reefs
in
hot
water
rescue
crew
Esther Rohm
tan lines seeing myself in a new light
Jessica Allyson
off the clock
dandelion seeds
float away
Joanna Ashwell
slowly becoming
a part of darkness
the river swing
Jo Balistreri
sun-filtered cedars
a bench of glacier stone
at rest
Juliet Wilson
dandelion clocks —
already too late
for the bees
Katja Fox
finding love —
she drops
her butterfly net
Kelly Sargent
rainbow snow cones
our tongues
the same color
Kimberly Kuchar
sea glass
motherhood softens
my edges
Lakshmi Iyer
red frangipani blooms
outside the hospice care
the skyfall
Lorraine A Padden
season’s end
a beach gives up
its human shape
Mariel Herbert
long day her fingers remember corn silk
Marilyn Asbaugh
rain-water rinse
before their pronouns
bearded iris
Mary McCormack
a firefly here and gone my epiphany
Minal Sarosh
morning rooster’s call reworking the sky
Mona Bedi
letting go
of sour memories
pickled mango
Paula Sears
morning fog burning off a blaze of marigolds
Rupa Anand
a change in the weather mango droppings
Ruth Holzer
firecrackers
maybe gunshots
Fourth of July
Sangita Kalarickal
now fireflies here now gone
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
blue into blue
the flight path
of a butterfly
Wilda Morris
another downpour
the smell of warm rain
in my mouth
Congratulations to all the poets! Thank you for including me, Allyson ❤️
Congrats to you and the poets