Falling Cherry Blossoms

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Falling Cherry Blossoms - Haiku

General Thread ₆ Featured February 4 , 2005

The Orient's haiku thread, open to all members of AW who wish to share their own haiku poetry. thread!

Join us on Friday, February 4th at 19:00 AWT for our Live Online Haiku Challenge!

How the Challenge Works

We have prepared ten topics for this competition and have kept them sealed in an empty canopic jar in Egypt's Heifer Nefer district. In great secrecy, Sementawy Horemheb has brought them to the Orient by way of a caravan traveling under the protection of Pharaoh's Medjay. Tonight, your emcee Lalita Ashoka will be presenting those topics to you one at a time.

Your task is to write a haiku on the subject presented. You will have seven minutes for each topic. At the end of each round, the judges will award you from one to five points. Our official scorekeepers, Aria Murasaka and Sankira Qin, will be keeping a running talley of the standings as the competition progresses, which our emcee will (try to) announce at the beginning of each new round. *s* Should the competition begin to run too far into the night, we won't use all ten topics, but in no case will we use less than six. So hang in there!

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Despite the fact that haiku has evolved into a freeform art, for this competition your haiku must conform to the traditional 5-7-5 or 7-9-7 syllable format. You can choose either format for any of your poems, but it will count against you in the scoring if your post doesn't comply with one or the other.

Well, that's it. We'll see you online!

For more on this form of poetry, see How To Write Haiku

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* Ningyo Minamoto, Apr 15, 2004 - 06:14