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
A bit? The Haiku thread judging has a tradition of being late. EnterOrion is now establishing a new tradition: to be late on the traditional being-late
Top Three this time. If you want critique, profile comments are the accepted medium. I'll post opinions, as well as the score, on the main judging for Top Three winners, but for in depth even they must request it. Ultra long judgings no one cares to read aren't happening anymore. I'm a bit cranky right now, so I apologize in advance if I'm not being humorous enough.
Bronze Award goes to Wolf1991!
Desert of crystal. Death bearing down upon poor Fools. Who tried crossing.
29/29/16
Quite a decent Haiku if I say so myself. The last line failed it, however, due to the fact you use a period instead of a comma or nothing at all. It sliced the sentence up. Overall an excellent poem, though.
Silver Award goes to Matrix
26/33/30
Artificial Drone, Our catastrophic problem, Cessation of life.
Excellent job, Matrix, excellent job. Great diction and the flow is even. No qualms about this one. It was an effective improvement over the original version, though the difference may be negligible. Excellent job.
The Gold Award goes to pHacon! Excellent job, pH.
The census runs deep; Blood sown for the fallow fields. Life Earth can't support.
33/33/33.1
Excellent job, pH. The fact that is tells a political and economic woe increases excellence just that much more. Diction is good, and flow is great. Perfect Haiku, you really have a knack for these things.
