The Haiku Project 2009 - For Change, Hope & Progress

We are pleased to announce the three winners of Haiku Project 2009The winning haikus will grace the bottles of ITO EN’s award-winning tea line, TEAS’ TEA.  Participants were invited to submit a haiku reflecting their thoughts and vision of tomorrow based around Change, Hope and Progress. Haiku, a Japanese poem in three metrical phrases with the number of syllables of 5, 7 and 5, respectively, is a time honored medium to express important messages.

Dreaming about change
Together choosing to thrive
Bright times upon us

Susan Lopes
Mill Valley, CA


Hope, change, progress too
Sweet like spring water for tea
Dancing with the leaves
Diana Rosen
Los Angeles, CA

Through muddied waters
A lotus finds the sunlight
Hope resurrected 

Tobe Roberts
New Milford, NJ 
                                         


  Haiku Project 2009    
We are thrilled to share the beauty of haiku in a unique and unusual way. We congratulate the winners on their winning haikus and look forward to sharing the power of their writing with our many customers. 
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