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
The round's theme is Sunset to Sunrise, admiring Jesus Christ's rising of the dead on Easter.
I did my best to encapsulate humanity's rise from darkness in seventeen syllables. I do not admire your god nor aspects of your god. You can certainly judge it as not one of the winners, but I deny your right to disqualify it just because you don't appreciate my interpretation of the theme. You're the one who brought religion into it, not me. Saying that I can't enter the poem I wrote because you don't like the subject makes you a bigot, sir.
but I deny your right to disqualify it just because you don't appreciate my interpretation of the theme.
You just stop right there, sir. I did not, "disqualify", you. I disqualified your poem because it had nothing to do with the theme. Feel free to make another one. If that's your interpretation of the theme and I was mistaken, I'm sorry, and don't call me a bigot or whatever that means, because maybe that's the reason you won't place. So yes, my order stands, and your haiku does not count.
Anywho, I'm leaving for Chicago today for Spring Break. Any questions on the haiku contest, talk to Mav, not me. I may be online at the hotel from time to time, but I won't be fully active. Ciao, guys!
Disqualifying him or disqualifying makes no difference, it's the same, and playing around with semantics does nothing to alleviate this difference or cover up.
He explained how his poem fits the theme and it does fit the theme or how you interpreted the theme with your Easter example.
Google it, I'm sure you would know how to do so. Also, I'm pretty sure from interaction with him that he doesn't care about placing but just getting his poem accepted in the name of free artistic expression. Classic example, Symphony 433 which many people would think is a pile of trash, but a small circle might find meaning however esoteric it is. Likewise, art I always subjective, and just because it has no literal sunrise or sunset doesn't mean it isn't relevant.
