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
Snow is no object As no snow knows no limits And snow's nose so cold
Last line is 6 syllables
Wrong! Count them again. Five one-syllable words can't possibly equal six syllables. Count more carefully next time, because it's your terrible math skills that are costing me this contest.
As the water sleeps The ocean still wields it power Hungrily licking land
Based on waves (I wanted to do tsunamis, but that wouldn't fit), and how they 'hungrily' lick the land every day and night. Fun to write Haikus, I must say.
(Can someone delete my other post? This is a corrected version of my post)
Darn, how an I miss 'one' word in my Haiku, that is important?
I counted 8 syllables there.
Yeah, I noticed it in the first line. I was going to make sure not to write 'The' before, but my grammar corrector (The one in my head) subconsciously put it there.
Hey Unlimited before you repost i'm pretty sure you meant its in the second line
Thanks! I appreciate that helpful insight to my haiku.
I counted 6 here. May want to revise it a bit...
I don't know... Lemme check Oxford for hungrily... Yeah, three syllables (Aargh!). Thanks for the tip.
Revised version:
As the water sleeps Ocean still wields it's power Tonguing the soft sands
Mmmh, I changed it a bit again... But I like this version a lot better.
And this time I see no flaws in my Haiku. (Tonguing has amazingly only 2 syllables.).
