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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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EnterOrion
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Load the anti-air
Cannons, ready by my word,
Santa's going home.

How loverly.

jaza_m
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Nomad

'Listen kids! Who's here?'
"Ho, Ho, Ho! Jowlly chirshhhtmasss"
'Oh, just a drunk.'

Sad children are sad :C

daleks
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'Listen kids! Who's here?'
"Ho, Ho, Ho! Jowlly chirshhhtmasss"
'Oh, just a drunk.'

The last line needs 1 more syllable. Right now it only has 4.
EmperorPalpatine
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Cheerful and jolly,
We gather around the fire
And drink our eggnog.

EmperorPalpatine
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Children lay asleep,
underneath an old man creeps,
laying gifts for them all.

The last line is 6 syllables, it should be 5.

Quietly sipping,
A chilled beer from Belgium,
Tropical Christmas.

The middle line is 6 syllables, it should be 7. But I guess it dosen't matter because you can't win 2 contests in a row.
aamer13
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Jolly Snowmen time,
Happy Chirtmas for the kids,
Santa came last night.

EmperorPalpatine
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believe it or not, fire is 2 syllables

Believe it or not, fire is 1 syllable.
dudeguy45
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on my snowy roof
chris kringle breaks a shingle
who cares, i get gifts

Maverick4
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Down by the fireside,
I come to know its meaning:
Peace and Harmony.

Maverick4
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Back when I was the judge, I did syllabuls based to the author's advantage. So in my case, 'fire' would be one syllabul.

Besides, if there's two sources saying its a differen't amount of syllabuls...

Hopefully it'll get cleared up before half the competition gets DQ'd on the final day.

acmed
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Fire doesn't matter. 1 or 2, you decide. Guess how many ****s I give? None.

Due tomorrow.

acmed
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1. Happy bday da.
2. Get in poems by today. Round closes tonight at midnight.

acmed
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I think we should just play to the author's advantage, whichever they choose.


I don't know what that is.

Round's closed. I will get judging done whenever I fancy so.
Maverick4
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For clarification, 'fireside' is two syllabuls in my haiku. Fire is one syllabul in the word 'fireside'.

acmed
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It is about the debate wether fire should count as 1 or 2 syllables. I'm saying it should be whichever makes the haiku the proper 5-7-5 so it could be one for one person and two for the other.


Oh, that. I've mentioned that before. It's fine. Don't argue about it no more.

Let's get judging.

This round's theme was A Wonderful Christmas Time, my favorite Christmas song by Paul McCartney. I know holidays are done, so the theme will be randomly pulled out of my magical hat of themes and heroin.

Remember to contact me if you want your poem to be commented on. Kay? Kay.

13 contestants.

Let us start.

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5th Place: nichodemus

Quietly sipping,
A chilled beer from Belgium,
Tropical Christmas.

Lawlz, you were away weren't you? I like the honesty of this one. A wonderful Christmas time for you in Belgium. How nice. I liked it. (:

4th Place: EmperorPalpatine

Cheerful and jolly,
We gather around the fire
And drink our eggnog.

That's the feeling of Christmas. I love the way you put it in with your favorites and not some silly ol cliche. Yaaaaaaaaaaay Emp.

3rd Place: jeol

Christmas is coming;
The colorful presents sit
'Neath the spark'ling tree.

The image of the haiku was a beautifulllll. I liked imagining this with happiness and lights and such. Good. Very.

2nd Place: Alexistigerspice

Christmas aproaches
Angelic voices singing
Raising our spirits.

I like the rhythm of this haiku. It was a great view of Christmas as angels bring our hopes and happiness up. Wonderful.

1st Place Merit Winner: Maverick4

Down by the fireside,
I come to know its meaning:
Peace and Harmony

This sucked. I hated it, Mav! It was so stupid and I felt so bad about your lack of intelligence, I gave you a merit. Your welcome.

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All done. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

Next round, eh?

Fine.

1 sentence paragraphs mwahahahaha.

Next round's theme will be I'm a Believer. Not cliche, eh? Wrong. It's for MLK day. MWAHAHAHAHA!

Due January 21st. (:
G'luck guyzzzzzzzzz.
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