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1st Place
# 2
reading between lines
————- the silence
he never wrote
Tejinder Sethi
Bangalore ,India
(6,3,6)=30 points
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2nd place
# 18
another spring
in old mailbox
bird’s nest
Wiesław Karliński
Namysłów, Poland
(2,2,7)=27 points
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3rd place
#11
letters to Santa
unopened
in mom's closet
Pepa Odjakova
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
(2,7,3)=25 points
AND
#34
letter from war —
the gust of a frost
in our garden
Goran Gatalica
Zagreb, Croatia
(3,5,4)=25
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4th place
#91
our letters . . .
a paper boat
carries me to you
Raghavi Agarwal
India
(5,2,4) = 21 points
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5th Place
#94
rejection letter...
my little son folding
a paper boat
Kaiser v Kahn
Darmstadt, Germany
(2,6,2)= 20 points
*
6th place
#68
grape gathering
in the scarecrow's pocket -
a love letter
Lyudmila Hristova,
Sofia, Bulgaria
(1,2,4)= 17 points
*
7th place(x3)
#24
unopened letter -
the first magnolia buds
before my door
Ana Drobot
Bucharest, Romania
(3,3,2)= 15 points
#30
first tooth lost...
my grandson recites
his ABCs
Nancy Brady,
Huron, USA
(0,3,3)=15 points
#55
saffron strands ...
mother’s blessings
in her letter
Arvinder Kaur,
Chandigarh, India
(1,4,2)=15 points
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8th place(x3)
#5
decluttering...
I find another of his
suicide notes
Ed Bremson
Raleigh, NC, USA
(3,1,3)=14 points
#42
torn letter -
flying away in the autumn wind
a part of you
RANIERI Christiane
France
(4,2,2)= 14 points
#78
rereading old letters...
out of the blue the sound
of her warm voice
Cristina Apetrei
Saveni,Romania
(2,3,2)=14 points
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9th place(x2)
#12
tombstone
the letters are erased
by time
Viktoriya Marinova,
Bulgaria
(1,0,4)=13 points
#21
onion skin –
a thin sheet of paper
our distance
Daniela Misso
San Gemini (TR)
Italy
(0,2,3)=13 points
*
10th place
#29
back to the sea . . .
letters of his voyages
along with the ashes
Milan Rajkumar
Imphal,India
(2,2,2) = 12 points
*
11 points(x3)
#25
monsoon failure
an elderly farmer writes
a letter to God
Hemapriya Chellappan
Pune, India.
(2,3,1)=11 points
#43
Valentine’s Day
the mailman also delivers
a knowing smile
Marion Clarke
Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland
(2,3,1)=11points
#77
unfolding the letter
among my mother's lines
forget-me-not seeds
Cezar Ciobica
Botosani, Romania
(3,1,2)=11 points
*
10 points(x2)
# 16
scent of moonflower...
too little time to write
a short letter
Goda Virginija Bendoraitienė
Klaipėda, Lithuania
(2,1,2)= 10 points
#92
bluebird call ...
the sound of a letter
dropped in mailbox
sanjuktaa asopa
Belgaum, India
(1,0,3)= 10 points
*
9 points(x3)
#4
no letter today
how far from home
this sundown feels
Damir Damir,
Kotor, Montenegro
(1,4,0)= 9 points
#40
ancient inscription
my shadow touches
each letter
Nikolay Grankin.
Russia, Krasnodar.
(1,1,2) = 9 points
#84
mum's casket
all these unopened letters
from my father
Henryk Czempiel
Strzelce Opolskie, Poland
(2,2,1)= 9 points
*
8 points (X4)
#49
burning slowly -
my feelings and
his last love letter
Sandra Martyres
Mumbai - India
(1,2,1)= 8 points
#65
snowflakes -
the silent words
of silence
Luisa Santoro
Rome ,Italy
(2,0,2) = 8 points
#85
broken bench
in the dusty hostel-
I write a letter
Vishwajit Pathare
Pune, India
(1,2,1)= 8 points
#88
ink splattered —
our divorce papers smell like
the letters you once wrote me
Anirved Deshpande
Mumbai, India
(0,1,2)= 8 points
*
7 points(x3)
#10
old letters -
the same even handwriting
year after year
Radka Mindova
from Bulgaria, Sliven city
(1,0,2)= 7 points
#60
dying flame—
the ink has faded out
from his letters
Anisha Anup Das
Kolkata, India
(1,0,2)=7 points
#82
letter from home --
my eyes are covered
by a mist
James Dobson,
Newcastle,UK
(0,2,1)= 7 points
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6 points(x6)
#1
elongated dusk -
caressing unopened
letters
Kashiana Singh
Chicago,USA
(2,2,0) = 6 points
#8
a letter
in her hennaed palm
crumpled
Mohammad Azim Khan,
Peshawar, Pakistan
(0,0,2)= 6 points
refugee tent -
in a foreign language
spelling “hope”
Dan Iulian,
Bucharest,Romania
(2,2,0)= 6 points
#63
first daffodil
she posts a letter
to a long lost friend
Marina Bellini
Mantova ,Italy
(1,1,1)= 6 points
#71
a little note . . .
your love spelt
in capital letters
Mona Iordan
Bucharest, Romania
(1,1,1) = 6 points
#76
missing father ...
the postman delivers
an ink of hope
Khwahish Vig
Pune, India
(3,0,1)= 6 points
Great-Grandma’s love letters
beautiful old handwriting
indecipherable
Eleonore Nickolay
Vaires sur Marne,France
(2,0,1)= 5 points
#22
office skills –
grandpa is still
searching in the mailbox
Capotă Daniela Lăcrămioara
Romania
(2,0,1) = 5 points
past seven springs
basking amidst dad's letters
the forget-me-nots
Lakshmi V Iyer
Kerala,India
(0,1,1) = 5 points
#59
love letter...
piecing together fragments
of my broken heart
Gautam Nadkarni
Mumbai, India
(1,2,0) = 5 points
#64
the first star -
her hand and mine write
a letter to Santa
(2,0,1)=5 points
#83
love birdsong...
writing letters
in the sand
Kristina kaneva Todorova
Sofia, Bulgaria
(0,1,1)= 5 points
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4 points (x3)
# 14
bonds persist deep
buried in layers of dust
my lost penpal's letters
Subir Ningthouja,
Imphal, Manipur,India
(1,0,1) =4 points
# 27
lingering plague--
unfinished love letter
folded into paper crane
Teiichi Suzuki
Osaka Japan
(1,0,1) = 4 points
# 70
old postcard
my unkept promises
close to her heart
Srinivasa Rao Sambangi
Hyderabad,India
(1,0,1)= 4 points
*
3 points (x9)
# 6
ping of an email...
how welcomed was the sound
of a postman’s bell
Vandana Parashar
Panchkula,India
( 0,0,1) = 3 points
# 7
incense smoke
your farewell words
appear disappear...
Eufemia Griffo,
Settimo Milanese, Italy
(1,1,0) = 3 points
# 13
winter twilight —
flipping through yellowed letters
of my first love
Minh-Triêt Pham
Paris, France
( 0,0,1)= 3 points
# 36
Avalanche -
The postman is distributing letters
torn from the corner
Vibha Rani Shrivastava
Patna
(0,0,1) =3 points
# 37
from the donation box
of village church
...a letter to GOD
R. Suresh Babu
Chikmagalur,India
(1,1,0) = 3 points
# 46
last letter
holds her fragrance
still...spring moon
Neena Singh
Chandigarh, India
(1,1,0)= 3 points
#56
lines crossed out …
furrows on brow
etch deeper
Priti Aisola
Hyderabad, India
(0,0,1) = 3 points
# 81
laptop screen
brightens the autumn twilight
the last mail
Małgorzata Tafil-Klawe
Poland, Bydgoszcz
(1,1,0)= 3 points
#97
old love letters -
joys and sorrows in time
become nostalgia
Mihail Buraga
Bucharest, Romania
(0,0,1)=3 points
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old letters
the fireplace reads aloud
and blush
Dainius Dirgela
Vilnius, Lithuania
(0,1,0)= 2 points
# 23
a sheaf of letters
still bound together
50th anniversary
Billy Antonio
Laoac, Philippines
(2,0,0) = 2 points
# 31
at LoC
pigeon flew in
with letter
Sushma Nayak
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
(0,1,0) = 2 points
# 51
love letter
in the mud of the road –
black clouds
Maria Tirenescu
Cugir, Romania
(0,1,0) = 2 points
# 61
the letter 0
one for startle
three for sheer pleasure
Barbara A.Taylor
Mountain Top, NSW
Australia
(0,1,0) = 2 points
# 66
patches of sunlight
the very last letter
he wrote to me
Christine L. Villa,
North Highlands, CA
(2,0,0) = 2 points
# 67
reading and
r e r e a d i n g your letter lulls
those voices in my head
Vani Sathyanarayan
(Bangalore, India)
(0,1,0) = 2 points
# 69
a tear
on the word goodbye
the ink melts
Nazarena Rampini
Milano Italy
(2,0,0) = 2 points
# 73
teardrops—
dissolving the ink
into an unreadable blotch
Lakshmi R Pillai
Kochi, India
(0,1,0) = 2 points
# 86
blurry words...
a tear falls
washing the ink away
Tanisha Dey
Pune, Maharashtra
(2,0,0) = 2 points
# 87
pile of wedding letters-
grandma reminds me
of the ancestral anklet
Sayali Sarode
Pune, India
(0,1,0) = 2 points
*
1 points (x6)
# 9
outdated news
a letter under the leaves
in the mailbox
Mirela Brăilean
România
# 57
waves play hide and seek -
on the wet sand
her name
Vadivel Rajan
Chennai , India
# 72
the abuser
attacked by the abused —
in her death letter
Nidhi Vaidya
Mumbai, India.
# 80
letter to a friend
I got stuck right after Hello!
Malgorzata Formanowska
Wroclaw, Poland
# 89
unable to sleep
I leave a letter under my pillow...
with my wedding ring
Zeal Shah
Surat, India
# 98
winter sky
trying to compose letter to you
from the stars
Andrius Luneckas,
Vilnius, Lituania
NO POINTS THIS TIME,SORRY
#3
No letter
in the mailbox...
in email a lot
Vasile Moldovan
Bucharest, Romania
#15
mellow morning
watching his last letter
crumbling in the hearth
Anitha Varma
Kerala, India
slow, my letter
in script
Pat Geyer
East Brunswick, NJ USA
#32
few wards letter
on the sand of the seaside
until a wave comes
Jurate Norvaišienė
Mažeikiai, Lithuania
#33
grandpa’s low flute call
plays grandma’s yellowed letters
twin blooming plum trees
Marilyn Ashbaugh
Gulf Stream USA
#38
winter hope
child hands over
a smudged letter
to Santa
Sushama Kapur
Pune, India
# 39
drop a letter
in mail box...
& then never see back
Kamrun Nahar
Dhaka ,Bangladesh
# 41
sheet of paper
no events ... and what
shall I write for you?
Nijolė Kerušauskienė,
Kaunas, Lithuania
# 44
rediscovered
the pleasure
of penning snail mail
Ingrid Baluchi
Ohrid, Macedonia
# 45
Valentine's Day
Mama bakes the meatloaf
in a heart-shaped pan
Phyllis Lee
Sebring, Ohio
#48
traces in the snow:
letters from a world too hard
to read
Csanad Szava,
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
# 50
so many letters
from the nature
crowns everywhere
Elena Ivanova
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
#52
letters
received in college...
a bundle of homesickness
Baisali Chatterjee Dutt;
Kolkata, India
# 53
Youth love letters
between lines today
sandwich crumbs
Richard Jodoin
Montréal, Canada
#54
unclaimed
box of messages
rains’ touch of bliss
Radhamani Sarma
Chennai - India
# 58
summer vacation-
the infinite enthusiasm
to send the first letter
Hassane Zemmouri
Algiers, Algeria
# 62
Blush creeps up my cheeks,
My heart in ink and paper I post,
Sincerely await.
Kakneka Nem
New Zealand
# 74
love letters...
the back and forth
tires my pigeon
Surashree Joshi
Pune, India
#75
a letter from home...
tears of joy
from the hostel kids
Mehr Sehgal
Jalandhar, Punjab
#79
our letters exchanged
our love bloomed
with love from me to you
Khushi Hemnani
Mumbai, India
#93
daughter writes of adventures
old father travels lanes -
between lines of her letters
Anushka Gautam
Lucknow, India
#96
Vaccine...
Farewell, COVID-19,
I embrace you, people.
Ivanka Yankova
Bulgaria
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