A Haiku is a Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons.
Well, that said, heres the rules:
1) The Haiku must be original (no plagarizing)! 2) It must fit the weeks theme 3) It must be submitted before the deadline 4) It must be submitted for the contest (no using works previously written) 5) One Submission per user 6) The Same User cannot win twice in a row (but there welcome to submit!)
Hopefully oneday the winner could get a merit...
The Deadline will always be a Wednsday, so the deadline for the first theme will be Wednsday, September 2. The theme is The Pond
People are gonna keep submitting until you close it... just more work for you... and less of a chance of winning for the rest of us...
The purpose of this contest is not for it to become a close circle of initiates; we welcome the expansion of an interest in poetry and this contest is prone to do just about that...In other words, we should be glad that it gains popularity over time, I'm sure Enter and the previous judges would have been very glad about that...Either way, I knew all the work involved when I submitted for the position...
Hope thats what a haiku is supposed to look like. What that has to do with freedom I don't know myself.
That's technically what it should look like...but there's a theme, and if you want to have but a slight chance at winning I strongly suggest that you use it...
Sorry to be a jackazz but, I hate when people mistake the words: there, they're, and their; and use the same word for all three. I'm just saying, my grammar isn't perfect at all itself. You just have to know the difference.
Somehow, I have somewhat of a problem with people giving grammar lessons while their own grammar isn't pristine and perfect...In any case, I'm quite sure that the people in question is aware of its misuse of the word...
Now I'm not a judge, but I say that Keonyama's haiku has us beat by a long shot. I'm impressed!
We'll see about that... In any case, more submissions is a good thing, we don't want to see this thread die don't we?
