Each year at the first Chapel following Spring Break, the Chapel Trustees reveal the winner and runner-ups of the annual Spring Haiku Contest. Below is a sampling of this spring’s winning Haikus:
Large Counts Condition
Means you are normal enough
Love my stats classes
-by Des Sheff
U2. REM.
Underground bands for cool kids
Nineteen Eighty-Four
-by Mr. Hitzrot
When I think of her,
My heart drops to the cold ground
Never said goodbye.
-by Greg Linton
I can be a man…
I never have emotions…
Anger doesn’t count
-by Harrison Clark
Eighteen new springs here.
Lizzie, Siobhan, Luce and Zo
Final Circle Spring
-by Tom Kane
Refuge to rich life,
The sea imprisons beauty
Through its translucence
-by Jillian Robertson
I miss you I miss
you I miss you I miss you
just come back Barack
-by Elizabeth Enslinn
Only brave souls plunge
While anticipating doom
Girls’ JV Hockey
-by Alice Yu
I’m closing my eyes
So tomorrow never comes
Procrastination.
-by Alice Yu
Every gleaming smile
Is the zenith, the acme
the peak of my life
-by Lyn Wu
The bark of a tree.
He says gray, while she says brown,
But really it’s both.
-by Willy Hutcheson
An Ode to Thirds Squash
Never the first one nor the
Second but the Third
-by HT Choi
I want to burn them
All the flowers, petals, too
I hate allergies
-by HT Choi
OVERALL WINNER
I pledge allegiance,
but the flag did not protect
seventeen of us.
-by Elizabeth Enslinn