5-7-5: Summer Haiku Contest RESULTS!
The long awaited 5-7-5 results are here!
I apologize for the delay, but with the storms in the Midwest, finally starting my shiny new job and making some other, tough decisions, I’ve been busier than anticipated. I received a wide variety of haiku, some from folks I know and bloggers most readers might recognize, and also from some pretty cool people I haven’t had the opportunity to meet yet. My mailbox is still bulging with the surprising amount of entries, and Bellwether even managed to e-mail me at 11:59 PM EST last Friday, when the contest officially ended. I’d like to thank everyone who contributed or mentioned this little endeavor to friends, and I hope that you either had fun participating or will enjoy reading them today!
Congratulations to Eustashius of Faux Paws fame for winning the main event (and gift card)—and giving me a good laugh!
Here are just a few of the other great entries!
Edgeworth from LF3 More actually submitted a haiku in Japanese that follows all the original rules, and his inclusion of the kanji and hiragana really allows for a visual experience of how the haiku reads.
Aeolos from Wanderings of the Meandering Mind offers a feral druid’s summer safety wisdom:
Phaelia from Resto4Life submitted a series of Northrend themed haiku and took the “seasonal” or “nature” theme to heart:
Ahmen from Moonguard offered a whimsical view of the giant, lumbering bear, and I’m reminded of how totally sweet it’d be if Dire Bear form displayed armor. Or, you know, at least a cape.
And finally, Korryna, also known as Valenna from Parry! Dodge! Spin! pays homage to the Darnassian deity:
I suppose I need to submit a few of my own, and since I’ve been accused of hopping on the anti-boomkin bandwagon, a few fat-bird flavored haiku:
Additionally, Lycentia wrote a Rawrberry flavored haiku-chain that I’d like to share but couldn’t justifiably “consider” in the contest.
Thanks again to everyone who participated, and I promise more updates soon!
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Thank you SO much! I had a blast doing these and loved reading all the entries. Thank you again for doing this
-eust
Kickass contest, Runy
Very nice comptetion! I noticed you aren’t in anymore.. Dread Lobster? did I miss something during my week of not checking blogs? I had your armory in my cache, clicked it and noticed the tag. And yay, resto. PvPing I’m assuming?
Hmm. apparently it doesnt like me typing singularity. ::shrug::.
Great idea. I loved all the submissions you posted. =)
@Eustashius, Bellwether and Phaelia
Glad you folks enjoyed it! Obviously I’m trying to get some more substantial posts going, but it’s been a process trying to word things lately.
@Nectar
My comment section eats anything that looks like it’s enclosed in an HTML tag. Unfortunately, this means you can’t put anything around a guild name, because it’ll just delete it. It’s not an anti Sing thing; it’ll do that for all things in the carrots.
Yes, I am trying to get back into the competitive PvP swing (rather than dicking around and getting poverty points), and thus I respecced resto PvP. I’m not a super PvP fan, but I figured, why not? I sort of just want to know I can be the best at…whatever gets thrown at me. Rogue/rogue/druid right now. I’m back to feral right now for some farming/running alts through shit/farming honor, but I’ll probably be moving back and forth a little more fluidly.
I’ll be posting more about Singularity soon.
Yay preventing forest fires!
I was duly impressed by the others, particularly Eustashius and Edgeworth.
I guess I should post something WoW-oriented to my blog. Otherwise you’ll be bored with my latest political raving. >.>