Form Poem Contest

White bear's last footprint
An invisible banner
Rippling in the heat

Good going, Fifth! :thumbs_up

Grasshopper in fields
now reaped of their new harvest
will starve without food...

we live entangled,
in the restless sleep of God,
dreams in a dim room

Lots of good entries so far - keep them coming! There's still plenty of time before the deadline of 3rd October.

Haiku! bless you!

The whisked air rumbles
Apollo's plot, as light whips
his chariot on.

Don't forget to submit your haiku before the deadline of 3rd October!!!

you and i tumble
into illusions of love
the summer was ours...

scarlet scaling the
morning sky, cardinal bathes
in the golden sun

Thanks lucid & quimmi :)

Just a few hours to go, get you're Haiku in now (you've got to be in it to win it...or so the National Lottery say!)

This yellowing leaf
Bathing in October light -
How long will it last?

The contest is now closed for entries.

Now the hard work begins ;)

Apologies for the delay, and thanks to everyone who entered a haiku into the contest. The standard has been really high, every haiku submitted is a winner in my book.

I hope you don't mind but in view of the shortness of the form I wasn't planning to comment on each one. All the haiku submitted were excellent, beautiful images in their own right, and there's such an excellent range of themes here that it is hard to say anything other than everyone who's entered has done a brilliant job.

Needless to say the choice has been extremely difficult.

So, I'll stop blathering, except to say that the winner is.....

......


....wait for it.....


***Windblown***

With a neat little haiku, perfectly capturing the decay of autumn with a single yellowing leaf. And leaving pause for thought too. An excellent haiku.

As the all were.

Congratulations, and thank you to everyone who took part.

Windblown, could you select the next form?

Congrats, Windblown... *grin* don't leave us in suspense too long...

Way to go Windblown!

Thank you, Fifth and autolycus and congratulations to all the others who wrote such wonderful haiku.

Well the next form is a rondeau, an old French form most of you will know from the famous "In Flanders Fields". I'll explain how it works in rhymes:

Go, grab your pen and write with me
The form that I'll explain to thee.
It's a rondeau in thirteen lines,
Two rhymes repeated and it shines
Like golden sunlight on the sea.

Oh, I forgot, here is the key
To your success: You are not free
With the beginning; it defines
(Go, grab your pen)

What stays in mind when mem'ries flee
And while you sip your cup of tea
You see a poppy that enshrines
An echo of the form in lines
That say "Go, drop your sword" to me,
"Go, grab your pen!"

Ah, the deadline: Let's say 10th November - and good luck!