Haiku-ption Contest #14

Shall we? Yes, let’s.  My haiku is below, add your own in the comments.

Cows are in estrus

Bulls are trumpeting their aims

Time for a new tack

Haiku-ption #13

It’s been too long. My haiku is below. Throw your own in the comments!

Single-filed menace

Flannel hazmat suits of white

On relentless march

Haiku-ption contest #12

To get you ready for the holidays, today’s haiku-ption contest carries a Christmas theme. Mine is below, throw your own in the comments as usual!

B.A. Barraccus

Mohawked stand-in for Santa

Nancy all aglow

Haiku-ption Contest #11

Mine is below. Throw your own in the comments.

Will an ostrich do?

When she wanted a pony?

Sally’s face says “no.”

Haiku-ption Contest #10

It’s about that time again, don’t you think? Throw your haiku captions in the comments:

Deep-sea diver, posed,

With Simon's roly poly

Little bat-faced girl

Haiku-ption Contest #9

Mine is below. Throw yours in the comments. Go!

Performing Fam’ly

‘Oh! Like the Von Trapps?’ they ask

Uh, kind of… I guess.

Haiku-ption Contest #8

My haiku is below. Give us yours in the comments.

Jackie Onassis:

Graceful former first lady,

Planking pioneer

Haiku-ption Contest #7: Rock the Vote

Haiku-ption Contest #7

If you’ve been around a while, you know the drill. If you’re new to this site, just leave us a comment with your best caption for the picture below, in seventeen simple syllables. Entries are voted on by the general public, and the winner takes home an incredibly satisfying, nice, warm feeling. Fire away!

The airplane’s black box

Didn’t tell the full story.

This was no birdstrike.

Pick a haiku- any haiku

Haiku-ption Contest #6

It’s that time again. In the comments, give us your best haiku for the picture below. Winner to be determined by a vote of the fickle masses.

Three straps and- voila.

Nose Gear, girls. It’s not just for

airplanes anymore.

Your ballots, please

Voting is now open for Haiku-ption Contest #5. There is no prize money, but the winner is free to place the honor on their resumé.

Haiku-ption Contest #5

It's been too long, folks. Let's jump start the work week by getting the old creative juices flowing. My haiku is below. Add your own in the comments. Voting will commence in a week or so.

Years of poor choices

Pull his slack bosoms earthward.

No, you cannot touch.

May the best man win

It's that time again. Voting for Haiku-ption Contest #4 is now open to the reading public. Have at it!

Haiku-ption Contest #4

By now, you know the drill. My entry is below. Yours are in the comments. Winner will be determined by the voting public. Make them count!

Penetrating gaze

Five knobs and two antennae

Our bow-tied future



Democracy comes to the Haiku-ption Contest

I'm itchin' for a new Haiku-ption Contest, but we never closed the loop on Contests 2 and 3. So I look to you, esteemed readers. Why don't you all pick the last winners for us?

poll by twiigs.com

Haiku-ption Contest #3

It's that time once again. Previous rounds are here. My entry's below, and yours are in the comments. May the best man win.

Outside chance, you said?

How d'you like my lion, sir?

Outside chance, me arse.

The floor is yours, ladies and gentlemen. Comment your entries below...



Haiku-ption Contest #2

It's that time again. Previous rounds can be found here. My entry is below, yours are in the comments. Away we go...

Jonesin'

Oooh! Lemme out here.

I've got a bad hankering

For a 'dog with kraut.

Bring it in the comments!

Photo courtesy of Retronaut

Contest Follow-up

There was no prize announced, and no timeline for entering, but since we’re about a week out from our next Haiku-ption contest, I thought we better determine a winner from contest #1. This, you’ll remember, was the inspirational prompt:

And these were the entries:

1.

We talk of baseball

Jones, perched on his stool, and I,

Elbow deep in cow

2.

Go to school, dad said.

Or you’ll end up sweeping streets.

(I’d kill for that now)

3.

Damnit, where is it?

Why did I not remove my

Fraternity ring?!

4.

Some don’t like pipe smoke

Sometimes, I clamp my pipe tight

Pipe smoke beats some smells

5.

I still hate my job

My resume says it all

Cow proctology

6.

In college I bragged,

"Yessir, I'll get tail. You'll see!

I'll even get paid!"

7.

Shit in a Shovel

And an uncomfortable cow

All in a day's work

8.

Mid America

Cow Anus in Black and White

Privacy Foregone

9.

Two men and a cow.

Both rest their limbs on a stool.

Earl drew the short straw.

10.

-"It'll never work."

--"They said that about the mule."

-"You're an idiot!"

11.

This is why pigs say:

All men are enemies, all

animals comrades.

The results were intriguing, to say the least. Some entries were descriptive (1), some historically researched (10), some evocative of extreme bad luck (2,3,5,9). Some treated the obvious subject lightly (4) and some made a farce of it (6). Some were thematically true to the art of haiku, with separate, short glimpses that painted a full picture (7,8). But when I look at them all together, there’s really one clear winner that emerges for me:  Entry #11.

First of all, it was the only haiku to take the animal’s point of view. So, kudos for that. But what’s more, the author even managed to quote George Orwell’s Animal Farm almost verbatim- taking us full circle back to literature. An impressive effort.

Which are your favorites?

Haiku-ption Contest #1

What do you get when you combine a venerable internet institution  with one of poetry's simplist forms? Our inaugural Haiku caption contest, that's what. My entry is below. Have at it in the comments!

Chit Chat:

We talk of baseball

Jones, perched on his stool, and I,

Elbow deep in cow

Photo courtesy of Shorpy