Dear Reader,
After a 3 year hiatus, it is with great pleasure that we welcome back the Haiku Hustle: A Haiku Invitational and Challenge.
An Invitation
Please (using the Comments section) submit a haiku (a series of haiku, multiple entries, are welcome). Please review the guidelines at the end of this post.
A Challenge
I will award prizes to the best haiku (best = the ones I select for any reason I choose) in the following categories:
(1) Best September Haiku
(2) Most Humorous Haiku
(3) Best Haiku Series (containing at least 3 haiku)
(4) Most Creative Haiku
(5) Best Haiku about a place
- You are welcome to include an introduction or a note along with your haiku to assist in the judging.
Guidelines
1. Entries must be posted as a comment in order to be considered. Multiple comments, posts, submissions may be made.
2. Poems must be in haiku format. They must have 3 lines in 5/7/5 syllabic form. They do not generally rhyme (no extra points for rhyming. In fact, I may dock you points).
3. Poems do not have to be traditional Haiku, but there are awards in that category. Please note that traditional Haiku are minimalist and nature-themed.
4. You do NOT have to know me to make a submission! :)
5. Rated G please.
6. Deadline = Friday, September 11th. Awards will be issued on Monday, September 14th.
I WILL NOT BE POSTING AGAIN UNTIL THE CHALLENGE IS COMPLETE! Good luck!!!
8 comments:
Let's go to the moon
There is no gravity there
Good for dance parties
kt,
here are two (separate) entries:
Somewhat amazing
Haiku for your enjoyment
Just what you wanted
One more souvenir
A collection most esteemed
My fake credit cards
Murder is elementary
Agatha Christie
Gives you a cup of hot tea
laced with arsenic
Blimp enthusiast
Has enemies. One lit match:
Death by hydrogen
Helium-filled room
Is inert, as you are--trapped
With your squeaky screams
Swimming late at night
Sodium plus H2O
Explosive moment
Trapped in a peat swamp
Compressed for one million years
Crystalline carbon
Tungsten filament
Saboteur, exploding bulb
Placed to pierce my heart
Ununquadium
Half life 2.6 seconds
How long will yours be?
Orange krypton light
Illuminates Lex Luthor as
Superman is killed
Twenty-one ponies
Die, selenium overdosed
Foul play is involved
Cancer struck quickly
Must be the plutonium
You slipped in my drink
Silicon circuit
Tampered with in robot's brain
Inventor's life ends
"Sweetness shows presence
Of beryllium," he says.
He omits "It's toxic."
My pet is smiling
(My chromium manticore)
As he leaps at you
Zeus hated Al's golf
Sent bolt to strike head of Al's
Titanium club
I am trying. Very trying.
September brings a
fresh start at the year's waning:
a birthday and school.
Had Mother Goose been
Japanese, would we be less
obsessed with rhyming?
Haiku feels awkward
like the words need to gallop
on five legs or seven.
Reading for fun, thought,
or sleep: Austen, Harris, or
Merriam-Webster.
Restless geese honk
at dawn; a Harley rumbles:
which disturbs me more?
facebook, gchat, tweets:
what would I do without you?
work? non-existent.
Up north green and lakes
Mountains so stunning when seen
Too bad not often
New vintage camera
Instant gratification
Three bucks a photo
Giants break my heart
Please start hitting the baseball
Can't let Rockies in
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