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National Library Week Haiku submissions

Submissions

Lapis Lazuli

China, Cornflower, Cobalt

Which "sky blue" today?

  ~ Sandy Placzek

Sleep haunts me in the Schmid

Long journey down, down, downstairs

Ten dollars for chips?!

  ~ Mallory Lloyd

Drifting off in Torts . . .

Early to sleep and to rise

. . .  Somehow still yawning

  ~ Mallory Lloyd

A blizzard warning?

But it's seventy degrees!

[Censored]

  ~ Paul Weitzel

     "Fools Spring"

The apparition

of his face here in the crowd;

Nathan Roscoe Pound.

  ~ Carrie Black

     "In a Station of the Library"

A book in the hand

is worth two clicks in the search.

Use your resources.

  ~ Carrie Black

     "What I Learned from Advanced

       Legal Research"

Marshmallow fluff clouds,

Blustery winds, cobalt skies

Spring on the prairie

  ~ Sandy Placzek

Exploring careers

There are too many choices!

What do I do now?

  ~ Tasha Everman

Can we all agree

Our nation is worth saving?

Rule of Law must stand

  ~ Tasha Everman

Clients spill their tales,

I nod, type, and sip my drink -

Legal, not magic

  ~ Layne Hoffman

Gray skies linger on,

I dream of blooms and warm sun -

Winter, take a hint.

  ~ Layne Hoffman

Pages turn, time slips,

Lost in worlds I'll never leave -

Just one more chapter . . .

  ~ Layne Hoffman

I dislike haikus.

Those that rhyme are far and few.

Does that irk you too?

  ~ Hannah Coldiron

We all have talent

Learn it. Love it. Live it!

The future is yours.

  ~ Tasha Everman

Headlines scream all day,

World on fire, no one's safe

Where/s the remote, hey?

  ~ Arfa Kaiser

I took off the moon

From the night sky with bright stars

Hid it in my dream

  ~ Yiming Cheng

CRAC, it's killing me

However, nevertheless

Highlighter runs dry

  ~ Mallory Lloyd

Library's cloud,

Dreams of naps and flying high

Law exam? Nah! bye!

  ~ Arfa Kaiser

In a bind, intrigue

Filled with words

Thrills and adventure

  ~ Rich Leiter

Silicon dreams flow

Algorithms craft verses

Bytes dance into art

  ~ Claude

Pixels born of code

Authorship blurs soft edges

Who owns digital dreams?

  ~ Claude

Vosburg v Putney

It has been three years now, man

Get out of my head

  ~ Zach Vacha

Sneeze, Sneeze, Sneeze, Sneeze, Sneeze

Claritin, Zyrtec, Oh My

Springtime in Nebraska

  ~ Jamie Cooper

The snow melts, easements

Emerge, Property appears

Everywhere in Spring!

  ~ Colleen Medill

Flowing grain waves crash

Horizon of inland sea

Cornstalks gull-whistle

  ~ Charlotte Baker