Haiku it! Contest winners announced

Thank you to the hundreds of Douglas County Library patrons who submitted haiku about libraries during Haiku it!, our April 2010 contest! We received so many wonderful poems it was hard to choose just a few to share on our website. Of course, everyone who realizes the value of public libraries is a winner!

Click below to read the haiku that won us over:

Kids, 0-10

First Place:

Movies, Books and Games
Adventures for boys and girls
Imagination
-by Sean Dawson, age 6

Honorable Mention:

Mysteries waiting
Adventures in every sight
Art is everywhere
-by Rose Frederiksen, grade 4

Yards of fact-filled rows
Columns of towering tales
Books on shelves yipee!
-by Tom Levy, grade 4

The stars are shining
The clouds are going away
Bedtime, read to me
-by Jonathan Swift, age 10

Quiet people read
Looking at books on the shelves
While heads get bigger.
-by Olivia Vasquez, age 8

Teens, 11-18

First Place:

Crisp, white pages hold
a shower of ideas
waiting to take flight
-by Lauren Hallstrom, age 12

Honorable Mention:

paperback jungle
where education spirals
filling the whole room
-by Jakob Bailey, grade 5

Mysterious world
A garden of adventure
Waterfall of words
-by Pranathi Durgempudi, age 11

Words fly off the page
Swirling all around my head
Taking me away
-by Beth Kennicutt, age 17

Pacing down the shelves
Hands running along the books
Grazing their sweet names
-by Mikaeli Lechuga, age 12

Softly syncing words
I drift into my dreamland
full of inky sheets
-by Delaney Schoenfeldt, age 11

Adults

First Place:

welcome all who seek
literacy and knowledge
the keys to freedom
-by Vivienne Houghton

Honorable Mention:

Authors new and old
Fill the shelves with heart and soul
Bestowed to us all
-by Kristi Blanco

Pages of truth, dreams,
Expressing the mind and heart,
Connecting humanity.
-by Beth Caldwell

How-to Where-to When
Tell-me Show-me Make me laugh
More than books opened
-by Stephanie Dawson

I became a Mom
I forgot I loved to read
She reminded me!
-by Kathy Rafferty

Preschool storytimes,
Mother-daughter, teen book clubs,
You grew with my kids.
-by Lenora Starr

Douglas County Libraries Staff

First Place:

Trees transformed by ink
Hold a forest of voices
Whispering to us
-by Kate Lucey

Honorable Mention:

Storytime is IT
Happy children sing along
Voices raised in joy
-by Sheri Aspinall

Reading, a doorway
words, plus imagination
Educate, delight
-by Tina Poliseo

Interactive fun
Douglas County Libraries
Come to "it" to play
-by Paula Standen