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National Library Week Haiku submissions

2022 Submissions

Leopard in his cage

Oops! Looks like he just escaped

We’ll never spot him!

   ~Elsa Knight

construction echoes,

in library silence and

a brief due, monday

   ~Taylor Finke

Vending Machine Food

Is this assumption of risk?

Egg Salad Sandwich

   ~Turner Jensen

First time at High Court

Oh my! This judge has no teeth

“That is Justice Gums”

  ~Elsa Knight

Mask or not to mask 

Not to mask I think says I 

Freedom always reigns

  ~Rick Duncan

Where your freedom stops?

At the opening to my

nasopharynx. Thanks!

  ~Lysandra Marquez-Sanchez

You know the saying

With a twist- where there’s a will

There is a lawsuit

  ~Elsa Knight

Long Fat Brown Earthworm

Burrows Down, To Loamy Depths

Her Trial Complete

  ~Neil Rutledge

Liberty for all 

To live paycheck to paycheck 

Freedom costs a lot

  ~Matt Dreher

April’s a great month

to celebrate poetry.

Stanza bonanza! 

  ~Elsa Knight

Looseleaf, leaf loose, no!

guess it’s windy in the stacks

more work to be done

  ~Keelan Weber

Starfish and coffee

Around the world in a day

Raspberry beret

  ~Jill Stohs

Time is a moment

Sometimes an eternity

Such a paradox

  ~Jill Stohs

Bitter Skies, High Winds

Warm Coffee and Space to Read

Shelter in the Stacks

  ~Turner Jensen

Mask or not to mask

Community, I will choose

To gather again

  ~Brett Stohs

Knowledge is power

But that means knowledge corrupts

We’re in big trouble  ~McKinley Brock

We learn the rulings

Do we learn so we can rule?

And if so, should we?  ~Matias Cava