Congratulations to the winners of the recent haiku poetry contest. Contestants wrote original haiku in the traditional three line five-seven-five syllable format. Winners received Starbucks gift cards from FRIENDS of Lakewood Library.
First Place: $25 Prize – Heather Jack, Orting
Lady Bug
Flame red and coal black
Clicking on the window pane
Trapped between two worlds
Second Place: $20 Prize – Kara Reynolds, JBLM
My Friend, Mt. Tacoma
Mountain of mischief
Standing tall and out of sight
Until the clouds break
Third Place: $15 Prize – Carmen Sterba, University Place
Feather-Shaped
A feather-shaped cloud
Appears in the spring skyscape
Distant pow wow drums