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

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Maverick4
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Peasant

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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nichodemus
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He posted a Haiku; looks like you guys have to judge for now.

HahiHa
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Regent

Time I tried a Haiku again..

A blade of grass fights,
Struggles for freedom and light;
Unnoticed by men.


Not glorious, but anyway this is my interpretation of the theme, a hard one btw.

shock457
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Shepherd

I was wondering if that Haiku even fits the theme. LOL.

You have to think critically about it.

nichodemus
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Grand Duke

Wait for his interpretation; there's no need to critique it without hearing his view of it.

HahiHa
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Regent

I was wondering if that Haiku even fits the theme. LOL.

In case you're speaking about mine, only because it does not contain the words 'brick' or 'wall' doesn't mean it doesn't fit the topic.
TopRank_
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Peasant

I dont like haikus
but i will give it a try
one among many
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this haiku is going along with the theme even in itself, for it is but one haiku, one brick, among so many more.

acmed
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Nomad

Okay, so, Emperor Palpatine is part of our lineup. Dudeguy will judge this round, Emp's got the next, and then me, and repeat.

Since we have that, we still can participate. As long as we are not judging the round and we didn't pick our own theme.

So, ready to bring the contest back to life?

shock457
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Shepherd

I still wish I got my first 3 Merits. =S

Spammers these days....

You guys better bring it back! =D

Maverick4
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Peasant

Legion

You cannot kill us.
Through your iron oppression
Our spirit lives on.

killersup10
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Blacksmith

covering the shame
brick by brick,again
the wall stands forward

dudeguy45
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Peasant

Ghost, are you saying the current judges are biased? On the contrary, I hate you all equally.

shock457
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Shepherd

I never said anything about bias. They want the Merit system here to come back (acmed). That is why Ghost recommended more judges.

GhostOfMatrix
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I never said anything about bias.

Your name is not Ghost.
Ghost, are you saying the current judges are biased?

No, but I'd like to avoid biased future judges.
shock457
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Shepherd

Lol. That is why I said I not you!

I also wrote some comments about the judges issue.

acmed
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Nomad

More judges will subsequently have more participants. And actually... I got an idea...

From now on, the winner chooses the theme. It brings in more participation and is the closest thing to a merit we got. If we can keep up a good beat, we can get AMW back on top!

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