Lots of good entries so far - keep them coming! There's still plenty of time before the deadline of 3rd October.
Haiku! bless you!
Lots of good entries so far - keep them coming! There's still plenty of time before the deadline of 3rd October.
Haiku! bless you!
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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!!!
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you and i tumble
into illusions of love
the summer was ours...
what i used to be will pass away and then you`ll see that all i want to know is happiness for you and me...
scarlet scaling the
morning sky, cardinal bathes
in the golden sun
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Bonzai "Some people say I done alright for a girl." Melanie Safka
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!)
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This yellowing leaf
Bathing in October light -
How long will it last?
The contest is now closed for entries.
Now the hard work begins
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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?
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Congrats, Windblown... *grin* don't leave us in suspense too long...
se non e vero, e molto ben'trovato
Way to go Windblown!
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
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!
Last edited by windblown; 10-13-2008 at 09:23 AM.
Congratulations, Windblown.
Here's my poem.
One Night I Spent in Mexico
One night I spent in Mexico
En route to Brazilian gay tablearx.
I arrested all my expectations
Based on sincere felicitations
Offered in a massive show,
A massive show the humble know
And celebrate and live and grow
Asking for no consolations,
One night I spent...
As they did, partaking with the low,
Feasting on the bread and crow,
Counting the hours and aggregations
'Til I left their congregations.
Soul in hand and heart in tow.
One night I spent...
Last edited by alakungfu; 10-13-2008 at 11:47 AM.
"It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows with wisdom how to use the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland."
- Horace
Congratulations Windblown. Your haiku was very neatly done-capturing a season with a single image.
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Bonzai "Some people say I done alright for a girl." Melanie Safka
The years we spent upon the Wall
Were not the dreams we dreamt at all
The runs upon the Scottish banks
The more and frequent lack of thanks
For nervous evenings spent on call...
We stood our duty straight and tall
With regulations large and small
We formed up companies in ranks
"Strike low, aim high!"
But now the spaces in the hall
Will never fill the crumbling Wall
We feel the wet breeze on our flanks
As they come rolling up the banks
"Strike low, aim high!"
=====
Note: Ha, someone suggested I should call this 'Wall Street Blues'. Tsk.
Last edited by autolycus; 10-11-2008 at 08:07 AM.
se non e vero, e molto ben'trovato
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