Announcing Our Haiku Contest Winners!

Hed: Announcing Our Haiku Contest Winners

It’s my pleasure to announce the winners of our Haiku writing contest. We had some excellent submissions and you’ll be able to read them all at the end of this blog post, but our winners are:

 First place – Holly Morrison

                Pen touches paper

                Words move like mountains, seed meets earth:

                We all rise – like bread

Second place – Scott

                Saying grace tonight

                Forces me to think about

                Those who have no food

Third place – a tie between Judy and Jill Klein

                Circle and Protect

                Defend the Cause of the Poor

                Speak by Mail Today

                -Judy

                Fill the in-boxes

                Of Congress, until members

                Feel hunger to change

                -Jill Klein

Thanks to everyone for their submissions. To the winners, please contact Jeannie Choi, associate editor at Bread for the World by email at jchoi(@)bread(dot)org with your full name and mailing address so we can get your prizes mailed to you.

To everyone else, I encourage you to read through all of the excellent entries and to learn the stories that inspired these haikus at www.bread.org/ol.

The Campaign is On/Let Us Offer our Letters/To God. It Matters.

All Entries to Bread’s Haiku Contest:

Words can't be eaten/Ideas won't fill a stomach/But love can do both.  --Bill Beechler

The welcome table / invites all who are hungry/ to a feast of Love.  --Malinda Dunlap Fillingim

Hunger Growls Resound/Hunger for Advocacy/Echoes in D.C. -- Robin Stephenson

Write to Congress Now/Urge Circle of Protection/Advocate for Poor. -- Shayla Price

Fist full of pennies/Heart holds dreams not yet made flesh/Your help my ladder. -- K Annie Powell

longitude is passed / synchronized earth lights left on / pittance for the starved. --Leslie

No justice, no peace/Until all hungry are fed/Bread members act now. --Martha Ward

Offering letters/Circling the poor in love/Faithfully we write. --Pepper Lambie Bauer

Can you hear Hope cry?/Stomachs empty; hearts broken/ God waits for us all. --Cindy Caporaso

Their plates are empty/They have not yet seen His truth/Bread brings love and hope! --Cindy Caporaso

Circle and Protect/Defend the Cause of the Poor/ Speak by Mail Today. –Judy

Power hears Hunger's pleas/Through letters from home and church/Faith linked to action.

Listen to our voices/Faithfully captured in ink/ Share is all we ask. –Regina

Fist full of pennies/Heart holds dreams not yet made flesh/ Your help my ladder. --Karen Powell

Hunger/Cries alone in fear/World shattered by poverty/Letters inspire hope. --Kathy Hunt

I could go all day/But only if i had to/Many have no choice/Must do more than hope/To change life for the better/Give, help, teach, feed. Please. --Joe A

Life can be turned into whatever you imagine/You can be a singer or an actor/You have the desire to make something out of it/You have the implements to do anything with your life/But it depends on how you use that device/You can do demiurgic things with your life/You can make your life beneficial for yourself/You have high anticipations that you never thought you can grasp /Time is alternating/It never hinders/It’s not worth being known /Live for the moment/Life can be a masterpiece /Take a new look at life/And think about it/Is the life you are making the way you really want to make it?/Never stop living. --Chibunma

The time is today/Sharing is not optional/Let's show them His heart. --Cindy Caporaso

What did He tell us?/Love others as I love you./Bread of life for all. --Cindy Caporaso

Letters can break chains/protecting corporations./Freed hands circle poor. --Jill Klein

Your belly is full/millions are malnourished/Just think about that. –Scott

Saying grace tonight/Forces me to think about/Those who have no food. –Scott

Fill the in-boxes/of Congress, until members/feel hunger to change. --Jill Klein

Pen touches paper/Words move mountains, seed meets earth:/We all rise--like bread. --Holly Morrison

Adlai Amor is director of communications at Bread for the World. He tweets in haiku at @adlaiamor.