I challenged my Empire Avenue shareholders to a social media haiku contest. The entries are in and it is time to vote! I didn’t realize how many people are apprehensive about writing poetry but a few brave souls stepped up and shared their prose.
The voting is open until Monday, November 7th. It is extremely easy to vote. Simply give your favorite haiku/haiku’s a Facebook like and a Google +1. The entry with the most likes and +1′s will win the grand prize of $100 Amazon gift card.
The entries:
Nice Article
Shared
Interesting article
Innovative way to get the juices in the noodels to flow “)
Thanks. Thought I’d try something different. Seems to be going great.
Nice way to share fer sure.
Great idea – I was wayyyyy too apprehensive. All clean entries
These are all great, it was hard to choose. Great job everyone!
Any way you could just list all of the poems on one page so the user doesn’t have to click through to 8 separate pages? It’s not like haikus are long, they are only 3 lines, right? Having to click through probably means that the entries at the top of the list will be favored. You might mix up the order during the week.
Great point Liz. I did it this way so people could share links to their individual haiku. I’m always open to new ways of doing things.
I loved this contest Scott! Next time I have to try!
What Liz said
i ponder reading
4 me time is fleeting by
i will vote my aye
I am half way through. Only the 1st is haiku. I will finish though.
True they don’t all technically count as haiku. Everyone was brave enough to enter though so I wasn’t going to shoot anyone down.
I +1′d my fave, but will note that all the authors did a good job. That said, Hurricane did it for me. The poems seemed to fall into two categories (subjectively on my part) – haikus turned into social media poems and social media turned into haikus. I’m not trying to be Zen w/ that description. But hopefully someone knows what I’m trying to say. Anyway, I felt like Hurricane was a good mix of both.
Wow, thank you!!!
Enjoy the article and submissions. Thanks
Fun idea. Are haiku’s supposed to follow the 5-7-5 pattern or does it allow for the poet to “freestyle” whatever syllables they like?
I believe they are supposed to be 5-7-5.
Great job, wonderful!!
Thank you for this!! It is so fun to try to find a way to express an idea in the 5 syllable, 7 syllable, 5 syllable format!! It is a cool that the prize is sooo big! WOW!!!1
Tip: If you view http://penguinspark.com/category/social-haiku/ – you can see all of the Haikus on one page
oops – no you can’t!!
Not to quibble, but… OK, I’ll quibble!
Only 3 entries — Contacts, Hurricane and RenRen — actually followed the 5-7-5 format, if anyone cares.
And in the end, Hurricane was the only one that really “felt” like haiku. +1′d & Liked.
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