Haiku Contest Winners

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Rock-here before time
Still beneath the cherry tree
As their blossoms drift
-Aaliyah Dillion

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Sun light
Sun light is peaking
Through the holes and under doors
Like a mouse sneaking
-Ajax Diamandis

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Grasshopper jumps high
Touching the bright open sky
Before the rain falls
-Anna Kwok

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The cold rain freezes
The leaves on the flower stem
Stiffening them still.
-Antonajia Pettway

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Impaling Jade Field
Dark Dystopia of Thorns
Small Uneven Kingdom
-Aydin Comboni

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Ocean’s happy voice.
Whose foamy waves clap the shore
Making children laugh.
-Celia Kou

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My dark warped soil
Battleground leaves turn over
Tiny red soldier
-Chu hen Corn

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On a dark black rock
Small spots of orange splashed
Bumbling bees fly by
-Devora Whitaker

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A willow tree cries
Its long weeping branches slouch
Where is the sun now?
-Erik Chiodo

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Amazing playground
Swings shrieking their rust off…
Slides still shocking me.
-Fatima Contreras

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I see the sun set
Then see it rise from darkness
Then see it dawning.
-Gavin Mcgee

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Leaves smooth pointed sharp
Hold in protective embrace
A purple frilled princess
-Haley Tomsheck

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After the spring rain
Bluebirds dive off arms of trees
Sun shines in puddles
-Hannah Skipper

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The leaves are dancing
The wind whistles in the trees
Spins my hair around.
-Hannah Christie

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A Beginning
Vibrant green hilltops
Delicate blood red roses
Life is exploding
-Isabel Vineyard

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Moon bright overhead
Illuminates the pebbles
Beneath the fresh buds.
-Jake Jacobsen

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Cardinals are shouting
“What cheer, what cheer, spring is here?
Nesting time, my dear!”
-Jean Fitzgerald

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Hear the daffodils!
Tiny flower trumpets shout
“Once again it’s spring.”
-Jean Fitzgerald

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Geese are energy
Re – form pond plant into goose
Goose – pond – similar
-Jeff Greenberg

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Onion grass comes up
Want to eat earth’s offering
Be one with Mother
-Jeff Greenberg

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The daffodils laugh:
My Kindle has gone off-line.
Jonquils prefer books!
-John Moeling

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The yellow bee’s buzz
Around the shimmering rock
Where white petals fall
-John Silvester

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White Petals scatter
Fluttering to sunbathed rock
Silver flecks glisten
-Jordain Haley-Banez

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In the dirt and leaves,
Lies an alabaster rock,
Content with its home.
-Josh Gaines

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Patters on windows
Seems dull, gray but colorful
Raining reflects me.
-Julia Ely

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The morning dew drops
And skitters down the blossom
Tears of winter’s death
-Kaitlin Louie

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The sun is dipping
Like a cookie into milk
The day’s sweet desert
-Kinsale Maloney

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Water drops sitting
Shaking in the breezy wind
Like a thunder storm.
-Lester Figueroa

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Robin on a limb
Pussy cat lies, spies and vies
Oops, bye bye birdie
-Mary Chadboum

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Crocuses are up
Grasses high, lawnmower out
Away my pretties
-Mary Chadbourn

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The lone mockingbird
Sitting in the cool oak tree
Longs for a mate’s song
-Matt Bunce

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A speckled blue tree
Armies of berries dropping
Lone dandelion
-Nisha Sandoval

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Red, yellow, orange
Leaves are scattered everywhere
Overflowing bags
-Olivia Bartilucci

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I climbed up the hill
I sped past the snow capped trees
I landed on my belly
-Olivia Bartilucci

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A lone butterfly
Flutters in long circles and
Lands upon a bud.
-Riley Boeth

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Fog the lowest cloud
So low it brushes the ground
Traps you from seeing
-Samantha Lesson

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Pink blossoms at lunch
Glide softly into my curls
Jays’ chirps match her laugh
-Sasha Perrin

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A subtle flicker
The corner ablaze with light
Now, dark as deep night.
-Schuyler Luthy

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Polka dots and red
Thin wings soaring through mid air
Land softly on leaf.
-Sophia Gonzalez and Julia Ely

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Cat on his back sees
Two doves up in the Pin Oak.
Calm, intensity
-Stephen Maye

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I am just enough
For me, two elbows, one head,
fifty trillion cells.
-Stephen Maye

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Next winter I will
Sense them secretly plotting
Their Crocus parade.
-Stephen Maye

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Traffic whirr and rush,
jay chatter, card'nal, dove-call
Oo, oo-oo, oo-oo.
-Stephen Maye

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Seagull shadow bumps
My forehead as I run this
Safe, wide, stretch of sand.
-Stephen Maye

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How old is that sound?
Water over stones, down the
Creek-bed flowing…..old?
-Stephen Maye

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Orange flames rise from
The burning, spring brush-pile; leap-
ing back into Sun.
-Stephen Maye

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Intruding ant, on
My white sink-top, I could squish
It so easily.
-Stephen Maye

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On a whim I run
Along the whole beach backwards.
Some gulls are laughing.
-Stephen Maye

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Along the Sound
Human’s beach-stroll talk,
Cell-phone talk, talk, talking while
These soft waves say, “Shhh.”
-Stephen Maye

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Midnight, first full moon
Of spring pours through bathroom win-
Dow filling the tub.
-Stephen Maye

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Black and yellow fuzz
Bumble bee fast as lightning
Flying around me.
-Takiah Paulk

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Thunder
BOOM BOOM BOOM I’m scared
I could hear outside thunder
But I faced my fear
-Valeria Barragan

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Tide goes back and forth
Sun burning against my face
Feet stuck in the sand
-Zachary Bayles

March 15 through April 15: Haiku Contest to Celebrate "April as Poetry Month" The definition for Haiku for this contest was as follows:

An original poem of 17 syllables in 3 lines w ritten in the format of: line 1 in 5 syllables, line 2 in 7 syllables, and line 3 in 5 syllables; Depicting a season; Describing an event of nature; Without violence.

The contest ended on April 15th. All winners were notified by mail or by phone and the winning Haiku were published in the May issue of the This Month at the Rowayton Library and on the Library's website at www.Rowayton.org . Winners are invited to read their winning Haikus at the Rowayton Library at a Winners' Reception and Poetry Reading on Sunday, April 25 at 1:00 pm led by award-winning poet Vinni Marie D'Ambrosio. All participants received a Rowayton Library pencil.

Please excuse any typos or omissins. For any corrections to spelling of the winner's name or poem, please contact the Rowayton Library at 203-838-5038. Thank you.

**The Rowayton Library's Fifth Annual Haiku Contest**

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