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
If anyone's interested in the judge position, we could work this out via Msn and come out with a judging with more than one perspective. Just drop by my profile and let me know, although all interested people should be aware that they'll miss their chance at winning merits if they're judge.
Ermm...hello!? Lol nevermind, I like to poke fun sometimes.
I actually came up with two haikus for this theme, this morning while getting dressed and again while in my English exam (which had nothing to do with poetry D and I have forgotten both. Heck, I even forgot the word Gloomy, "Uh... Gloopy?"
Gloomy sky so grey Shimmering water so blue I must look onwards
Not at all, although haikus traditionally don't rhyme as a heads up, I feel like they let it slide around here though.
I do judge them, but they are not eligible to win the merit.
Also, I forgot to mention that some Haikus - In fact the largest number since a good while now - in the latest round haven't been judged, be it either because of their format or their...appropriateness...
Inappropriateness: Cherry trees, cherry trees, cherry trees, chaerry trees Cherry make you sh*t
Please refrain from doing such Haikus please. It's not even funny; it's just utterly puerile and out of place.
Of COURSE it is Parsat. You two should go get married under the poetry tree. :P
Now, if you weren't my Uncle, I would be one of those angry Haiku-ers with a pitchfork and an angry cat. ___ This one is a double Haiku thing. I think you can enter that right?
That single color, That you can not find elsewhere, But it's everywhere. The one perfect shade, In that small window of time. Just simply sublime.
thank you all for clearing that up for me. i assumed i stepped into the lion's den without thinking... however im known for doing such.. and coming out unscathed.. p.s. the whole rhyming scheme was accidental as art is an expolsion poetry is like breathing.. whether long, short, consistant, slow, erratic,or controlled, ... one way or the other it will come out.
