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
I think he was trying to clarify that he meant "Judge the first poem entitled Life that I submitted" instead of something like "Consider my poem for first place."
Nine days late. I think thats a record for me. Still, better late than never, eh? Eh? I did some thinking, and I realized that it wasn't really fair to judge based on previous experience as well. What about those new comers who wrote a good haiku for this topic? So heres what I've decided to do:
In this post, there will be ***two*** 'judgings'. One will be for those who wrote a good haiku for this topic. It will be a 'top five', with the top spot recieving the merit and a hearty pat on the back. The second judging will also be five. However, it will be in no special order. These will be those who I feel have shown the best history of writing haikus. ***Winning will have nothing to do with it*** Although experience is important, its allright if you've entered 50 times and never even got fifth once.
Those five who make it into the 'special round' will be given five days with a unique theme to impress me with their haiku skills. I will pick a winner, and then that'll be your new judge.
Everyone else will be given 15 days to write a haiku for the 'normal round' theme. The special round will take the first five of those days, so those who come out of that will have the standard ten days to come up with something.
Be expecially sure to pay attention to which round your writing a haiku for. I'll try my best to notify you of your mistake, though I can't be blamed if you're missed. __________ THE JUDGING!!!
So I guess that makes three rounds then. Hmmm. Well, that being said, here will be the normal judging. This is for everyone who entered a haiku into this round. (If you're just cutting in here, you really need to read everything above).
If anyone would like their haiku critiqued, then please message me your haiku and state so. Any messages without the original haiku will not be replied to. Thanks.
Congratulations for getting in. Your special theme will be 'A Dieing Tree', to be due in five days on October 18. The winner of this round will be the new judge, if they so wish. If not, it will fall to second place, then third place, etc. Good luck.
No actually. I had an idea for the topic, and I just tried to pick something that was fairly opposite to the regular theme. And I couldn't really put 'Pesticides' as the theme.
I'm back, wouldn't you know! Your old judge's coming to perk up the competition a lil' bit! Expect to see some crazy poems...and no, this time I'm not whining for the job; I've got enough with my book to be the judge this time around.
