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7000 HAIKU



                                                          Raven flying high
                                                     Glossy black in azure sky
                                                      Perching in trees' limbs
                                                               - Dolls and Phoenixes

                  old cricket
             on a frog's tongue
                 a bad taste
                            -MariGoes


                                                                               Ukulele girl,
                                                                 Has come in from the dark cold,
                                                                        To play tunes for me.
                                                                                             - van gough

       Swirl of teal leaves drift
     Gently sinking bottomward
         Beckoning blessings
                              -azure85
                                                                                       bullfrogs -
                                                                                 a distant karaoke
                                                                                echoes in spring air
                                                                                                 - haikumonk


Point your mouse to "Poetry"
Then "click" on "Categories"
And "scroll" to "Haiku"


Note the "counter"
Soon "All-poetry" will be posting
7000 Haiku!


Why write Haiku?

They make you observe
Help you refine you phrasing
And savour moments

 

 

A contest for 1000 points gold

500 points silver

300 points bronze

 

Rules:

-one entry per person

 -one three line stanza per entry

-"5-7-5" is a "target" I set for myself when writing Haiku

...but I'm not obsessed with it when reading other people's poetry.

-"kigo": the main theme of haiku is nature

so even if your poem is "humorous"

or "amorous"

please include a word or make an allusion

-to the season

-a precise moment of the day

-a particular day (ie. May Day, Cinco De Mayo, Hanami, whatever-) 

-DON'T FORGET to click "haiku" as the category when you enter!

 

 

For the uninitiated

who want to know more about haiku

see:

http://webdelsol.com/Perihelion/acmarticle.htm

http://pages.infinit.net/haiku/

http://allpoetry.com/tag/show/Haiku

 

Those who are initiated

know that haiku in ancient Japan

was part of a poetic game where

one person

would enounce a 5-7-5 syllable stanza

and a second

would reply with a 7-7 syllable stanza

I invite you to enjoy each other's poetry by creating such "Tanka"

 

There will be two H.M.

However, these will be to single out the poems where i found the best 7-7 tanka "replies"

I will award 250 points to each of the authors of the "replies" I like the best...

 

I am looking for to reading your contributions

to Allpoetry's 7000 HAIKU!

(Don't forget to click "haiku" as the  category

to have your poem cateloged!)

 

 

(art: "Flower Ball" by Takashi Murakami )

Contest is Over

  • Contest was judged on May 13
  • Rewards: Gold: 1000, Silver: 500, Bronze: 300, Honorable mention: 2 people
  • Final notes:
    cracking thunder
    ringing a silent echo
    a petal falls


    ...a few hours after this contest ended "Marlene47" logged what was Allpoetry's 7000th haiku (she posted several that evening, they're well worth going back to read!)


    ...as for your poetry; what a pleasure to read all these entries! So many varied themes and sujects...it would be easy to choose a dozen of them for the gold and still say this one or that one is just as good as the
    others. In the end:

    ghostly images
    fresh scents of spring embedded
    white sheets on the line

    was my favorite
    and "pania's" reply:

    winter spirits now set free
    shadows replaced by the sun

    is one of the tanka winners.
    It was very enjoyable to read all the "echos" you made to each others haiku!
    I chose two other tanka writers to award points to:
    "Aerden" for her two lines for "Weather or not"
    "sheltered"for his two lines for "a simple action"

    If you havn't already: don't forget to add your poem to the "category": "HAIKU"!

Contest Winners

  1. Gold - Haiku 5-7-5
    x 1
    by RedwingSpirit 0 lines, 24 comments, on Apr 25 8:59 PM
    Gold trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  2. Definition
    thud upon empty spring stomach
    by Jonathan ROBIN 7 lines, 10 comments, on Apr 25 11:53 PM. In Humor, Society, Haiku, Acrostic. Reward
    Silver trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  3. Spiderwebs
    by cocolocoblondie 2 lines, 3 comments, on May 5 12:57 AM. In haiku, form, personal, sad, nature
    Bronze trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  4. Weather or not
    Spring day in winter.
    Where have all the seasons gone?
    by WritingWretch 2 lines, 4 comments, on Apr 28 2:39 PM. In Sad, Reflections
    Honorable winner
    • Viewed by judge. [remove]
  5. a simple action
    a simple action -
    slowly peeling an orange,
    by motel 3 lines, 11 comments, on May 6 1:21 PM. In haiku
    Honorable winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]

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  • ecrivain01 silver member
    April 25
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    I wish I felt up to writing right now ...

    but I doubt if I will get anything done for this. Good luck with it in any case.

  • marlene47 silver member
    April 26
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    Great idea - a goal of 7000.
    Marlene


  • pania gold member
    April 26
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    Great Contest

    I'll be back with an entry - what a great way to bring the numbers up!

  • sheltered
    April 26
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    Do you mean one can reply to a certain Haiku with a two line poem to reply as a separate entry thereby making a collaborated Tanka. I'm confuzed?

  • MariGoes gold member
    April 27
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    I really like the tanka reply idea!
    Wonder if only the contestant may play along with the replies...
    Wishing you a fun contest.
    Mari

  • Ephiphany silver member
    April 27
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    Thanks for the invite

    I will bookmark this this is my frist Haiku but Im all for supporting the Poets

    Ephiphany
  • ecrivain01 silver member
    April 28
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    What do you mean ...

    click haiku as the category? How do you do that? I've never heard of that, much less done it.

    • DogFish silver member
      April 29
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      Yes, just where people click category when you post a new poem- click "more" and several other "categories" appear, inclucing haiku...
      or you can type what ever "category" you like into the space.
      There are 42,662 "categories" posted on AP!!!

  • azure85 gold member
    May 3
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    6934 haiku right now on AP, oh, it is almost 7,000!
    (I never checked how many before, this is great to have a contest to reach 7,000!)

  • motel silver member
    May 3
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    the immediacy of haiku is wonderful. thank you for the contest.

  • background music
    May 3
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    This is a great idea for a contest! I hope we get up to 7000.

  • obscenegesture
    May 6
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    What an original concept, I'm really enjoying the "tanka-reply-thingy".

  • Jackilyn
    May 6
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    Oh This will be fun to watch! Good luck with this I love Haiku's! I hope that you make your goal of 7000

  • Malabu
    May 14
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    Personally- I feel the host of this contest has no clue to what real Haiku is…in addition the distinction between it and senyru…you can copy and paste what they mean or how they can be written…recite their history and still be clueless…such as I see here… i.e.; ’hints of nature’ I feel you have insulted many talented poets and broken your own rules skipping over some very good Haiku here…shame on you…I guess when you enter a contest here…one should read some of the host poems…one might see their qualifications are non-existent before entering…

    I also realize this is your contest and your decision…but may I suggest you find one of the many great Haiku writers and knowledgeable people on this site to help you in the future

    Congratulations to the winners and thanks for hosting

    • DogFish silver member
      July 6
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      "clueless"
      most of my best friends have used that adjective on me (some of them frequently)
      ...I guess it's a shoe that fits.
      Sorry, to have disappointed you as a judge, but I thank you for your many excellent contributions in this contest, you added a lot to it. It was hard for me to to chose one or three or half a dozen, for that matter; I enjoyed them all, and many were outstanding.It did seem to me, too, at the end, that I'd bitten off more than I could chew.
      I'm quite curious(it was weeks ago but I only came across your note the other day) were there three to you that really stood head-and- shoulders as winners abouve the rest,"Malabu"?

      Anyway, I mulled over your words.they even spurred a poem out of me. I posted it today with a little "dedicace"to you.


  • sheltered
    May 14
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    Thank you very much and congrats to everyone.
    This was a fun exersise adding the two lines.
    Great idea.
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