You know what we haven't done in a while? CB575! (in Contests)
We haven't had a haiku/senryu contest in a long, long, long time, so shall we? I think we shall. :)
Write me your best Haiku or Senryu. This edition's subject(s) will be:
Autumn and/or,
Monkeys and/or,
Carnage Blender today vs. a year ago and/or,
th00p! and/or,
All of the above (which would be truly impressive)...
Rules:
1. Multiple entries are allowed.
2. PG people!
3. Don't be insulting to any individuals. I'll ask, and even be willing to pay an admin to remove your post if you do.
4. Deadline for submission is midnight Friday/Saturday 10/24-25 (server time)
1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes will be of a typical BarzooFabulousness, I just haven't figured out exactly what they will be just yet!
I'll pick a winner next Monday 10/27 at noon (server time)
Game on!
Oh, and here's a little refresher:
Haiku: A Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons.
Senryu: Japanese form of short poetry similar to haiku in construction. However, senryu tend to be about human foibles while haiku tend to be about nature, and senryu are often cynical or darkly humorous while haiku are serious. Senryu do not need to include a kigo, or season word, like haiku.
I think i'll give this a shot. :).
Relic
October 18 2008 10:06 PM EDT
Fall comes once per year
Sweet repose of the chilled air
Leaves fall bringing change
Lochnivar
October 18 2008 10:18 PM EDT
I remember liking haiku.... or was that Hakai?
Regardless... I think I will enter this more than once, but for now:
Curling and Gilded,
Gloriously they decay.
Transcendent beauty.
Crazy confused
Ah! Panic! Panic! Panic!
Wait, changemonth is done?
King
October 19 2008 12:15 AM EDT
Complaints arise now.
oh noez my strat got nerfed.
that is balance dude.
QBsutekh137
October 19 2008 12:31 AM EDT
One, Two, Three, Four, Five.
Seven is a good number.
But then, so is Five.
DoS
October 19 2008 12:37 AM EDT
The guy before is good,
But was off topic like me,
So no one wins right?
arguments rehashed
upon leaves of orange fall
newly flung monkey th00p
TheHatchetman
October 19 2008 2:30 AM EDT
They need a plumber
So to their front door I come
Gripping my hatchet
Swinging Monkeys Of Fall
Fifty Two Weeks Pass On By
Thoop Is Carping Todd
Lochnivar
October 19 2008 3:42 AM EDT
Strats withered by change,
Befouled by monkey-wrenches.
Th00p watches, and waits.
AdminG Beee
October 19 2008 6:16 AM EDT
monkey th00p is good
spelling soup is difficult
th00p soup mmm yes please
kevlar
October 19 2008 11:12 AM EDT
Here we go Steelers!
Ben Rothlisberger Hines Ward
Black and Gold baby
th00p
October 19 2008 12:37 PM EDT
Can it really be?
A Barzoo contest for me?
He's my main homie!
Fall is quickly here
Golden leaves and empty trees
Where has summer gone
racing down the coast
days inn on the P.C.H.
check out time is here
cold smog rolls in low
slum looms past refinery
arrival and departure
escape on four oh five
north to Radisson we go
jacuzzi nightmare
A trio in celebration of my vacation...
QBBarzooMonkey
October 20 2008 12:53 PM EDT
a contest began
but sad, off the radar screen
back to the top, bump!
th00p
October 20 2008 1:03 PM EDT
Forget the monkeys.
OB's booty, immortal,
Will swallow us all!
a new ncb
single not unviable
just suck really bad
fading sun of fall
santa monica and third
cb on the road
th00p's unarmed combat
monkey had fur but grew some
steel skin this autumn.
Vir4030
October 20 2008 9:04 PM EDT
leafless trees reveal
fifty monkeys with laptops
all attacking th00p
Autumn monkeys and
th00p dance around the Carnage
of a Blender's past.
th00p
October 20 2008 10:06 PM EDT
Oh pitiful fools,
no need for all four topics.
Just praise the Barzoo!
Goodfish
October 20 2008 10:10 PM EDT
Zombie Jonathan,
who just got a face paint job,
says, "I like turtles."
I don't expect to win.
Oh silly th00pie,
some of us want to use all
four of the topics.
th00p
October 22 2008 10:48 PM EDT
Leaves cascading,
Spiraling down to the ground,
Finally fall's here!
QBJohnnywas
October 23 2008 8:10 AM EDT
Leaves red and gold
Standing under empty sky
Everything has gone.
Leaves red and gold
Standing under empty sky
The wheel turns again.
Lochnivar
October 23 2008 11:45 AM EDT
meh.. hardly on topic but...
Haiku or Hakai?
Simple prose or complex charms?
Which one won't talk back?
th00p
October 24 2008 12:56 PM EDT
Autumn, Monkeys, th00p
and CarnageBlender too! Bumps
will keep us running!
th00p
October 26 2008 3:22 AM EDT
My oh my oh my!
Have we descended so far,
Failing a contest?
th00p
November 7 2008 10:06 AM EST
Sh! Crickets chirping!
Have we lost all our minds?
Not one more reply?
AdminG Beee
November 7 2008 2:47 PM EST
Monkey does a run
Not paying us for our time
A devious man
Sure he will return
More than once he has been slow
But fair is the man
Which option is he
Devious is the monkey
True is the key man
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