ForumsArt, Music, and WritingHaiku Contest - Broken Bond (page 531, due: Feb 2)

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Maverick4
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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

(special thanks to 'thisisnotanalt'

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LittleNinjaMan
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Thanks... it didn't take very long though.

shayneii
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Colours and fragrance,
Fluttering petals, twirling--
Peaceful mosaic.

Maverick4
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Judging Now. Srry, but my comp temporary broke yesterday...

Maverick4
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Teh Judging!
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Champion's Exibit: Yielee

Scented Red Roses
I Water with the Hoses
My Muddy Toeses!


Wood-Plaque Award: LittleNinjaMan

A flower garden
Pleasant, but sometimes dead
But always peaceful

Its probaly the most truthful haiku of them all. Most of them were all on the 'flowers' and stuff, but this one really went a differnt path. 'Road Not Taken' and all that...

Silver Award: Manta

Vile plague of weeds,
Siphoning the flower's vim.
Color is no more.

I think of an uncolored coloring-book page. Pretty good, It really tells what a garden can be. And uh...

Yeah...

NEXT!

Gold Award: Shayneii

Colours and fragrance,
Fluttering petals, twirling--
Peaceful mosaic.

Its alot like a traditional Japanese Haiku. Each line stops, but is wholey connected between eachother. Don't ask me how thats possible, it just IS.

Platinum-Certified Award: Bronze

Harder labor still
Plowing, weeding, and sweating...
Completely worth it.

Congratulations, you've just won...

A BRAND NEW CAR! (machine-applause)

No, just a merit. I mean, really, its not like you WANT an 07 Mazda Miata Mx5... Sheesh
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The next topic is: Longest Road
Deadline: Wednsday, 21(?)

A likkle examplea from me:

Weary Traveler Stops
And Rest Under a Trees Shade
On This Dusty Plain (Plane?)

Pretty bad, but ya'll get the idea
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Current Winners So Far:

The Pond: Alt
The Fruit Tree: GuitarHeroFTW
Mountains: Hectichermit
Through The Haze: Yielee
Longest Road: ???

LittleNinjaMan
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Thank you for the award Maverick4.

LittleNinjaMan
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Here is my new entry, let me know what you think...

I have seen it all
Sights, along the Longest Road
And I keep walking

Bronze
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Shepherd

Did I just win? I barely even managed to place in the last ones. My Haiku is from real experience, don't know how many times I had to get up and go pick peas...

Thanks Mav, and are you certain that we get merits?

Graham
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Boundless forever
These roads, matrical havens
Homogeneous

hope it's ok for it to be pluralized.

shayneii
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Did I just win? I barely even managed to place in the last ones. My Haiku is from real experience, don't know how many times I had to get up and go pick peas...


Congrats

Thanks Mav, and are you certain that we get merits?


Yeah, Carlie said that winners could get merits. You'd have to ask her for your merit though.
dudeguy45
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Kick a can glumly
I saunter in the middle
a forsaken road

the_manta
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W00T

First time I've placed.

Thick fog, a long road,
a horizon just ahead,
but where is the end?

FloydTC
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in deserted space
lives the longest road there is
and it leads nowhere

Maverick4
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don't know how many times I had to get up and go pick peas...


3 BUshels of field peas... 2 days...

*scream*

And thats the truth

Congratz to all who placed and entered, I'm gonna get a mod to change the title now
hypoxia
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A long way to go
Rest, pause, reflect, carry on
One goal, many paths

Elitemagical
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Tired merchants sleeping;
Disconsolately stirring:
The road will not end.

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