The nominations for the Pushcart Prize for 2025

Nominees

Anticipating Winter by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Jan2025/anti.html

Greenwood by Peter Yarrow
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Sept2004/Greenwood.html
Reprinted February 2025
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Feb2025/Eulo.html


 Love Note by Michael Escoubas
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/July2025/love.html

 My Best Friends, My Books, by Maryann Delaney
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/March2025/best.html

Sand Castles by Sharmagne Leland-St.John
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/July2025/sand.html

To Write a Poem, by James Green
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Dec2024/writ.html

First Runner-up

 Wish I Knew How to Paint Happiness, by W. Wayne Lin
Quill & Parchment:I Wish I Knew How to Paint Happiness

 

Honourable Mention:

Augury by Bob Moore.
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Nov2025/augu.html

Autumn's Call by Priscilla Turner Spada
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Nov2025/autu3.html

Baptism by Soft Rain by Michael Escoubas
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/May2025/bapt.html

Beside the Great Blue Heron by James Thielman
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/March2025/besi.html

black and white keys seventy-years later by Marcel Aime Duclos
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Feb2025/blac.html

Café du Monde New Orleans by Michael Escoubas
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Nov2025/cafe.html

Chapters in Life by MfrostDelaney
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Nov2025/chap.html

Christmas in Linlithgow by Pauli Dutton
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Dec2024/chri3.html

Christmas Lights Robert Walton
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Dec2024/chri.html

Day of Release by Marcel Aime Duclos
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/May2025/rele.html

Days of Praise by Judy Lorensen
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/May2025/days.html

Dear Gertrude by Carol Kanter
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/April2025/dear

Dear Vincent by Sharmagne Leland St.John
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/August2025/dear.html

December Dichotomy, Mark Fleisher
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Dec2024/dece.html

Enduring Love by Carole Mertz
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Feb2025/endu.html

Ferragosto by Judith Valante
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/August2025/ferr.html

Frost Never Imagined by Marcel Duclos.
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Oct2025/fros.html

Generations by Vaughn Neeld
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/May2025/gene.html

Gift of Snow by Gay Williford
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Dec2024/gift.html

Gone! by Gay Williford
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/March2025/gone.html

Havey's Beach byPriscilla Turner Spada
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/June2025/have.html

Haibun for August by Marcel Duclos
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/August2025/haib.html

Heavy Snow by Bing Hua Tr. by Yingcai Xu
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/March2025/heav.html

Hemp, Haiku & Social Lies by Tracy Mitchell
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/April2025/hemp.html

In Caledonia County by Jacob erin-cilberto
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Sept2025/cale.html

Kenneth Patchen Comes to Lunch by Tracy Mitchell
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/April2025/kenn.html

Learned Motherhood, by Maryann Delaney
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Jan2025/lear.html

Let's Meet in Forest Park by Lenora Rain-Lee Good
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/May2025/lets.html

Lingering Snow Fall by Elayne Clift
https//quillandparchment.com/archives/Jan2025/ling.html

Liturgy by Judith Valente
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Jan2025/stor.html

Love Note by Michael Escoubas]
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/July2025/love.html

Lucky Strike by Priscilla Turner Spada
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/June2025/luck.html

Mid-autumn by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Nov2025/mida.html

Midwest Seasons, by Kathy Lohrum Cotton
http://quillandparchment/archives/Dec2024/midw.html

My Life is Like an Antique Pin by Sharmagne Leland-St. John https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Feb2025/life.html

My Lovely Lady by Marcel Aime' Duclos
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/August2025/love.html

New Beginnings by Michael Escoubas
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/March2025/begi.html

Newborn Snow by MFrostDelaney
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Jan2025/newb.html

Newly Fallen (for Joe) by Gloria Viglione
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Nov2025/newl.html

On Blueberry Hill Fats Domino, c.1956 by Priscilla Turner Spada https://quillandparchment.com/archives/March2025/blue.html

On Finding Beauty by Chad Norman
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/April2025/find.html

On Old Berwick Road by Marcel Duclos
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Jan2025/berw.html

Orchard in Arles by Vaughn Neeld
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/August2025/orch2.html

Perennial by Annette Sisson
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Nov2025/pere.html

Peter’s Song by Sharmagne Leland-St. John https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Feb2025/pete.html

Pines and Pinions,Spruces and Such by Tracy Mitchell https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Dec2024/pine.html

Reprieve by Bob Moore
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Feb2025/repr.html

Sawdust by Paulette Demers Turco
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/July2025/sawd.html

She Never Guessed the Apple Tree Was on My List by Wilda Morris
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/July2025/neve.html

Sisyphus by Boyd Bauman
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/June2025/sisy.html

Sleigh Ride by Michael Escoubas
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Jan2025/slei.html

Snowflakes Falling at Night by Michael Escoubas
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Jan2025/snow.html

Storm Watch: CSI by Vaughn Neeld
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/March2025/stor.html

Spent by Marcel Duclos
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Sept2025/spen.html

Surrealism in Flight by Vaughn Neeld.
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Oct2025/surr.html

Take Me to the Fair by Wilda Morris
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/August2025/take.html

Taos Sunrise by Sharmagne Leland- St. John https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Dec2024/taos.html

Taos Winter by Sharmagne Leland-St.John
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Jan2025/taos.html

Testimony by Michael Escoubas
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/March2025/test.html

The Gift Michael Escoubas
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Dec2024/gift2.html

Then It Was Gone by Mark Lipman
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Feb2025/then.html

The Poet Speaks by Carole Mertz
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Jan2025/poet.html

The Poem by Sharmagne Leland St.John
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/August2025/poem.html

The Riddle of Amherst by Michael Escoubas
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/April2025/ridd.html

The Something, by Laura Foley
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Oct2025/some.html

The Wheelbarrow by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Sept2025/whee.html

The Wind in the Willows, by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/March2025/wind.html

They Hold the Molten Rock, by Carole Mertz
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/June2025/they.html

To Resist Temptation by Mark Fleisher
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Jan2025/resi.html

Under an Apricot Sky by Gay Williford
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Sept2025/unde.html

Uninvited Guest by Sharmagne Leland St.John
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Oct2025/unin.html

Villanelle Blues by Candace Turner
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/July2025/vill.html

Warily I Walk These Woods by Mark Fleisher
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/Oct2025/wari.html

What Mother Taught Me by Judy Lorenzen
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/May2025/what.html

When an Old Man Dies by Martin J. Postma
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/June2025/when.html

When Robert Creeley, by Tracy Mitchell
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/April2025/when2.html

While Contemplating Aegean Green by Vaughn Neeld
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/July2025/whil.html

Winter by Yingcai
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Dec2024/wint.html

Young Grief  by Marcel Aime Duclos
https://quillandparchment.com/archives/March2025/youn.html

  

 

 


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