Along with the top places decided by our panel of judges, LPL’s Haiku Contest features a People’s Choice Award to be decided by YOU! Read through all the submitted poems below then vote for your favorite. One lucky poet will win a $10 gift card to the Lancaster Sweet Shoppe!
🗣️ The People’s Choice Award winner will be announced on Saturday, May 1. Check our social media pages (Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter) for the post!
People’s Choice Contest Rules:
- Only one (1) vote per person.
- Voting ends Friday, April 30 at 11:59 PM.
For questions regarding this contest, please email Leigh.
More than two dozen haikus were submitted to our first ever Haiku Contest 👏👏👏
| *We got cookies from the Smiths in the mail today. We don't know a Smith. | *Bird poop on my coat. People say that it's good luck, but I know better. | *I held the wrong hand. Regret brushes its tongue on the nape of my neck. |
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| 1. "Coal Rust" Streams absorb black clouds As do their inhabitants Burning embers die | 2. Travel memories In my suitcase, in my heart So I don’t lose them | 3. Buda: genteel hills Danube divides, bridges join Pest: flat land, vibrant |
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| 4. Hillside burials Celtic crosses as sentries Across rolling hills | 5. Delicious cheese board Best with Argentine Malbec Perfect denouement | 6. Walking through the woods Seeing the leaves mapping paths The wind's breath helping |
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| 7. Evergreen trees stand They stand tall in the forest I like that they're green | 8. Dogs are the cutest! They are Fluffy and playful They sleep in my bed | 9. the earth awakens bursting with song and new life the show has begun! |
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| 10. Happy tears of the world, Wash away all that is not pure. Leave us with bright colors. | 11. Grow to cover the world. Make the world soft to our feet, Green grass grow ever more. | 12. If you’re fully vaxed CDC still recommends Reading before bed. |
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| 13. Lancaster is kind Diversity and People Lancaster prevails | 14. Root comes from nowhere to trip me on my face. Ouch! That will leave a mark. | 15. Pockets in my dress means partner does not carry lipstick and my phone. |
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| 16. A full moon, pale pink It blossoms far from my home, but close in my mind. | 17. "Paradise" The smell of the room The texture of the book spines I'm in paradise. | 18. "Painting" Splat! I dip my brush Into the vibrant pigment And begin my piece. |
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| 19. "Cold Blood" Murdered in cold blood, Lies and family secrets, Makes a thrilling read. | 20. The winter wind gusts. Bare trees in their ecstasy bow and speak in tongues. | 21. An earnest morning bird queries the eternal and mid-day answers. |
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| 22. Week-old snow retreats from rocks, earth and air as though now disenchanted. | 23. Cherry blossoms bloom The bright sunshine calls to me Time to go outside! | 24. Strangers in a room, Waiting and moving our arms; Vaccine shot brings hope |
*The haikus in bold were selected as prize winners by our panel of judges; they are not eligible for a prize in our People’s Choice Awards.