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Haiku for Henry Winner Announced

We are gratified by the over 150 entries we received for our first Haiku for Henry contest. In reading the poems we discerned several themes: descriptions of Henry's life and experience, references to Henry's political and philosophical legacy, and personal reflections on the natural world.

And The Winner Is...

FOR HENRY

Though you fathered none
How vast your seed's dispersal!
Entire earth your heir.

Margo Van Kuren

 

 

Honorable Mentions

Probe a silent place
lichen, logs and humus
Where the sidewalk ends.

Toni Giarnese

JULY 12, 1817

Today I know light,
Soft sounds, warm breeze. Today no
Need to simplify.

Caroline Ellis

A TOLERABLE PLANET

Bare hands gently place
Compost 'round roots from a friend
Three lives are enriched.

Jim Meehan

 

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