And the winner is:
poutine with the entry
The Fall campaign looms
Barack’s birth was their focus
Bin Laden was his.
Please vote for your favorite haiku
- The Fall campaign looms / Barack’s birth was their focus / Bin Laden was his. (44%, 47 Votes)
- Coffee beans ripen / Obama shows his long form / Strong and Hawaiian (15%, 16 Votes)
- Conspiracies dashed! / April is the cruelest month / To fringe hatemongers. (14%, 15 Votes)
- Dead leaves in Autumn / Numbers fell ever downward. / Spring brought long green forms. (8%, 9 Votes)
- The tiny male spider / Mates, dies. His futility, / Like birther “research”. (7%, 8 Votes)
- Cover all his tracks / A quilt of snow in winter / The thaw reveals lies (6%, 6 Votes)
- Flakes fall from heaven, / fractals for all to see. So? / Shadows know snow’s forged. (3%, 3 Votes)
- Barack Obama / Forgery and Theft / Siamese Twins (3%, 3 Votes)
Total Voters: 107
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Congratulations, poutine!
Well done!
Congratulations to the winner! I know I liked it, cause I voted for this one.
That Haiku is a FAKE!!!!
Why was it released as a Haiku, a format that is easily forges or altered? Why not use a sonnet? Sure a sonnet might be a larger file size, but don’t the American people deserve to have their poetry questions finally put to rest?
What is the POET usurper trying to hide?
I counted three layers.
If I ever do another Haiku contest, I will drop the 17 syllable requirement. The fragment/phrase structure is much more important. I also question whether the seasonal reference makes sense in a contest where a second topical requirement (Obama conspiracy) is imposed.
Things to ponder.
I demand to see Poutine’s membership in the Organization of Blog Poetry Writers. Otherwise, that haiku is not a natural born haiku and ineligible to be haiku contest winner.
I really don’t know the rules for modern English Haiku. I do how know that they are more loose than the Japanese Haiku’s. I will wait for the experts to set me right. Anyways, remembering my English syllables they are all well written.
There are different “schools” of thought.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Most poems rhyme
But this one doesn’t
First, congratulations Poutine.
Second, my Principal provided you a fine Sonnet here a few days ago on the open thread.
Third, this is for the Smiley Face on the Abstract:
Artifactish
by Squeeky Fromm
There is a face, I do declare,
A face they say that isn’t there.
“It isn’t there”, is what they say.
Oh, how I wish it’d go away
I looked again, I had to see,
And it was smiling there at me.
As big as life on the Abstract,
Or is it just an artifact???
Go away, go away. And end this episode.
Go away, go away. Are you a Sekrit Code???
Oh, I am trying NOT to stare
And see the face that isn’t there.
“It isn’t there”, is what they say.
Oh, how I wish it’d go away!!!
From Head Researcher, as Agent
Note: This poem is based on Antigonish by William Hughes Mearns.
Wiki says Mearns is credited with the well-known rhyme, composed in
1899 as a song for a play he had written, called The Psyco-ed. The play
was performed in 1910 and the poem was first published as “Antigonish”
in 1922.
Antigonish
Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away
When I came home last night at three
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall
I couldn’t see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don’t you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don’t slam the door
Last night I saw upon the stair
A little man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away