We love getting the community involved through this fun competition and putting out the winners' work on signs in and around Alpena.
Congratulations to our 2019 winners Lisa Fosmo, Helen Hierta, Mike Mandrick, Nancy Nelson and Jill Marcusse.
Enjoy the following haiku selected for the 2019 Heritage Haiku contest. Haiku signs were placed around Alpena Thanksgiving weekend and at the 2019 north45east reading.
oh the bark of trees
thatched delicate as paper
poems of Earth's breath
the great inland sea
pounds its weight against the shore -
a heartbeat of life
Gadwells crashing waves
roiled weeds in feeding time
southern winds calling
azure canopy
sun bright fair breeze lone sailor
head up jeweled bay
early spring morning
light hammered the lake copper
willow weeping green