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
The water ripples The stone skips across the pond The frogs leap away
This one is written really quite well, and It reminds me alot of a pond. Though in my opinion, it would have been best it you had tied the lines together. Instead of each line being about a differnt thing, try and make them have something a bit more in common. Okay, I could have worded that better.
*hides*
Iron Award: Poison Arrow
Silent reflections Distorting, shifting, changing Scratching the surface
This is really good also. Though it reminds me of a grey, cloudy misty sorta of day, where you sit and watch something for hours, it still talks of a pond. Good job to you too also.
Silver Award: shayneii
Splish, a fish jumps... joy Bursting, colourful delight The sound goes, "Gah-ploonk".
This one is alot like some classic haikus from feudal Japan, if you ever bother to look at them. It really reminds me of a pond. Exelente
Gold Award (and also first place): Alt
Ripples Ricochet round stone changing destinies An era of thoughts
I have to say, it was reall close between you and shayneii. You both had great haikus; shayneii's resembling a more classic haiku, while yours reflected deeper into the thoughts. So yours won. I would go say get your merit, but, I cant. Oh well, atleast you have a warm fuzzy feeling in you, right? --- And now for those that the above awards cant describe:
1337 Award: GuitarHeroFTW
i liek pondz they iz very coulourful and they are made of water
7331!!!!!1!!
Scare-the-something-out-of-me Award: Bronze
The water is still But I know you sleep under Ever watching me
Jamie? Theres something in the water...
*gets pulled under*
Something straight out of a horror movie m8...
The 'I could care less' Award: Zega
The pond is a pond. No ordinary old pond. It is just a pond
If you dont want to be here, why dont you just leave? Whats so special about the pond that you feel a need to write about it? Hmmm?
Hmm I didn't even get an award that was named after me xD Let me tell you what I got out of mine: A dead person laying in the bottom of a pond with their eyes wide open. Anyway, here is my kind of sad fruit tree haiku.
Lonely tree swaying Fruit to give but none to take Waiting for someone
@poison, I guess you went with the fruit of knowledge instead of an actual fruit tree.
I can see where your going with it; the 'dark secrets' being the fruit of knowledge. Its good, kudos to you for following the topic with out mentioning fruit.
