Monday, December 18, 2006

Our turn

Let's try our hand at contesting! How are your haiku skills?

I found two good-looking haiku contests, one from ThinkGeek.com and one from SpaIndex.com. The ThinkGeek haikus must be geeky or techy, and the Spa Index haikus must be tranquil. The December theme is "ice or snow."

OK, everybody go enter. And be sure to post your entries here for our perusal.
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15 comments:

kc said...

This is a fantastic idea! I'll get back to you.

10:32 PM, December 18, 2006
cl said...

Jolly snowman sits
Accosted by friendly dogs
Top hat left in slush.

4:42 PM, December 19, 2006
kc said...

I like that, cl! Did you enter it?

This is hard.

9:36 PM, December 19, 2006
Erin said...

I like that, too. I'm drawing a blank, myself.

9:27 AM, December 20, 2006
cl said...

'Holiday' party
'Not Christmas,' Basement Boy says
I eat more cookies.

5:23 PM, December 20, 2006
Erin said...

Basement Boy! Ha!

9:58 PM, December 20, 2006
Erin said...

Snow is beautiful
until I have to shovel.
Then I curse winter.

10:17 PM, December 20, 2006
kc said...

ooh, Erin, that reminds me of a folk song!

1:25 AM, December 21, 2006
kc said...

Iced toes meet warm leg
under covers, in the dark.
January's joke.

1:26 AM, December 21, 2006
Erin said...

Oh, that's a good one.

8:45 AM, December 21, 2006
kc said...

Sad to see your breath
rise like smoke, an aimless cloud
of wasted kisses.

9:45 AM, December 21, 2006
kc said...

Here's a tech one:

O Mac! Why quit now?
Is your memory too full
of bad things I did?

1:15 PM, December 21, 2006
kc said...

Actually, I think that first one I did would be better like this:

January's joke:
Under cover, in the dark,
iced toes touch warm leg.

I think Evelyn would say that putting the strong sensory element and also the "punch line" at the end makes it a stronger poem. (I can see how she'd get a little obsessed with this stuff).

1:23 PM, December 21, 2006
kc said...

And I think in this one she might substitute "warm" for the "your" I originally had because it makes it more universal to remove the personal notions of "you" and "me." And it adds another sensory element: warmth.

Sad to see warm breath
rise like smoke, an aimless cloud
of wasted kisses.

But maybe "your breath" adds poignancy, gives the "sad" more weight?

1:28 PM, December 21, 2006
Erin said...

Hehe. You sound just like a contester. Mine should probably have said "snow looks beautiful" so as not to waste a syllable on "is."

2:58 PM, December 21, 2006

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