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PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 3:55 pm


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I am not entering. I am, however, sharing a silly haiku!

Boy I love waffles
Strawberries make them taste grand
Syrup is good too


XD Now I'd like some waffles with strawberries! Did you make this one up?

I do inspire food cravings...Yes! In fact, I made it up while writing the post. I wrote one back in high school about my sensei and a plastic walking sushi we gave him. It was epic.
PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 4:05 pm


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I am not entering. I am, however, sharing a silly haiku!

Boy I love waffles
Strawberries make them taste grand
Syrup is good too


XD Now I'd like some waffles with strawberries! Did you make this one up?

I do inspire food cravings...Yes! In fact, I made it up while writing the post. I wrote one back in high school about my sensei and a plastic walking sushi we gave him. It was epic.


XD That sounds epic! Do you remember how it went? If so, you should post it. Or if it's funny you can enter it in the 4th contest.

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 6:36 pm


Water_Angel08
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I am not entering. I am, however, sharing a silly haiku!

Boy I love waffles
Strawberries make them taste grand
Syrup is good too


XD Now I'd like some waffles with strawberries! Did you make this one up?

I do inspire food cravings...Yes! In fact, I made it up while writing the post. I wrote one back in high school about my sensei and a plastic walking sushi we gave him. It was epic.


XD That sounds epic! Do you remember how it went? If so, you should post it. Or if it's funny you can enter it in the 4th contest.

I don't remember and I don't have the sketch pad that it might be written in at my apartment. If I did write it down, it'd be in the one at my parent's house. Sorry! There is another waffle poem though. If you check out my deviant art account. It's an ode to my waffle that I composed while nomming a waffle at brunch during my undergrad. ( http://mugoi-usagi.deviantart.com/ )
PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:05 pm


~~ Angel, I want to enter haiku contest #2!
Username:roguevc1000
Title: zodiac animals
Entry:?

Zodiac animals are difinetly unique
They are known all around the world
this year is the rabbit.

roguevc1000


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PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:32 pm


@roguevc: I think you misunderstood the pattern of a haiku. You have 5 words, 7 words, 5 words. The pattern is 5,7,5 but it's measured by syllables not words. Right now your syllable pattern is 13,8,6. It's a really great start though! Good luck! ^_^
PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:02 pm


~~ Angel, I want to enter haiku contest #2!
Username: mugoi_usagi
Title: Om Nom Zodiac
Entry:
Tiger I see you
I beg, don't nom on my face
I has no flavor

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:25 pm


mugoi_usagi
~~ Angel, I want to enter haiku contest #2!
Username: mugoi_usagi
Title: Om Nom Zodiac
Entry:
Tiger I see you
I beg, don't nom on my face
I has no flavor


Haha That One Is Funny -u-
PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:30 pm


Lol mugoi yours are so epic! You make it seem so easy xDD I love waffles. I love nomming. I love reciting shel silverstein's "Ickle Me Pickle Me Tickle Me Too" upon command xDD

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:38 pm


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Lol mugoi yours are so epic! You make it seem so easy xDD I love waffles. I love nomming. I love reciting shel silverstein's "Ickle Me Pickle Me Tickle Me Too" upon command xDD

Haiku are easy! You think of a topic and make a very short sentence. And you change words around until you have 5 syllables. Then you make a slightly longer one (which can be hard because you often have too many or too few) then go back to a concluding short sentence! Give it a shot! Start with your zodiac or something.
Personally I was a fan of Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out. I had that memorized in 5th grade but have since forgotten most of it.
PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:42 pm


I think my thing is that I put too much weight on the words. There is actually a format (OT, here lol) that the Spanish use in their own form of poetry. I keep kicking myself because it was written in the back of my textbook in high school and I never coppied down the rules because I was too lazy--but it was really very beautiful biggrin I really liked it and I thought "Now this is something that I could be doing, here."

I feel like...
haiku is zen-ish. You have to look at the world through a certain kind of eye. Every time I think of haikus I always end up starting with a wooden wagon wheel. It's weird. It's like... o.O I can't stop thinking about that as an origin point. I need better inspiration xp

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:49 pm


Miss Chloie
I think my thing is that I put too much weight on the words. There is actually a format (OT, here lol) that the Spanish use in their own form of poetry. I keep kicking myself because it was written in the back of my textbook in high school and I never coppied down the rules because I was too lazy--but it was really very beautiful biggrin I really liked it and I thought "Now this is something that I could be doing, here."

I feel like...
haiku is zen-ish. You have to look at the world through a certain kind of eye. Every time I think of haikus I always end up starting with a wooden wagon wheel. It's weird. It's like... o.O I can't stop thinking about that as an origin point. I need better inspiration xp

Maybe you need to write about that wheel before you can move on. That wheel is demanding to be heard! lol
PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 11:33 pm


~~ Angel, I want to enter haiku contest #1!
Username: xXblak_sakuraXx
Title: Fireworks
Entry:


It Smells Of Fire
The Great Feeling Dwells Within
Look! Fireworks Fly!

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 9:03 am


~~ Angel, I want to enter haiku contest #2!
Username: Awesomesara822
Title: The Year Of The Tiger
Entry:
Year Of The Tiger
Powerful and Passionate
Nature's Majesty
PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 10:25 am


Anyone ever seen that llama llama duck song?

Have you ever seen a llama kiss a llama on the llama?
Farmer, baked potato, llama
llama llama duck.

llama llama duck is 5 syllables. Anyone up to the challenge of writing a haiku that ends in llama llama duck? Would probably make a good entry to the silly haiku contest! I will sell you that phrase for a song! ^_^

for those of you interested in the song: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/llama

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 10:56 am


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~~ Angel, I want to enter haiku contest #2!
Username:roguevc1000
Title: zodiac animals
Entry:?

Zodiac animals are difinetly unique
They are known all around the world
this year is the rabbit.


Thank you for the entry, but as mugoi pointed out the poem doesn't fit the 5 - 7 - 5 syllable measure. So for example: Zo(1) - di(2) - ac(3) is 3 syllables. If you could please revise your entry and repost it, I will happily take it. (And also, it's the year of the tiger). ^_^
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