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
In all honesty, I found this theme rather difficult. There's simply too many avenues to take. It makes it hard to choose what your Haiku should be about.
I thought too many avenues is a good thing..it makes for a large variety. And with haikus, it's pretty difficult to relay your message in so few words.
Once, twice, thrice, then then, Lest I lose heartbeats again. seven, eight, nine, ten...
I would recommend that you revise either line one or line three, as a haiku is a non-rhyming poem following the syllabic formats of either 3,5,3 or 5,7,5.
I've made up my mind. This will be the last time I won't be judging. After that I'll take back my post and be the best judge for this thread yet, I swear it. If need be, I may request assistance for some to try their hand at rating haikus; that way I'll keep an eye on those qualified enough to be temporary or even full fledged judges. After this week, I'll much likely be asking regulars to send me a mail about how they think the judging should go, and use such opinions to better forge my own judging. If it's okay with freak, I'll let him judge that one last time.
@Freak : You're free to judge earlier if you fell like getting this out of the way, I understand it was never your job to begin with. Of course, if you want to relay that task to someone you think could be qualified for the job, you're free to do so. And thanks again for that paired judging idea, it's quite a brilliant proposition.
