Woo-hoo! Now that it’s all personalized and starting to really feel like home, it’s time for me to throw a contest. I actually had a hard time picking a contest, because Jeanne came up with quite a brilliant one that I think I’ll save for Chaos’ Birthday Party Contest next month. So, in lieu of a brilliant contest, I present to you the Chaotic Haiku Contest. Um, yeah, so maybe I was inspired by the Amazing Lace Poetry Challenge. 🙂 But I actually have written a haiku about Chaos on this very blog (which I’ll reproduce below), so some sort of precedent has been established, right?!
The details: Leave a comment below with a haiku about Chaos. At its most basic, a haiku is a three line, nonrhyming poem that should paint a picture in the reader’s mind. The lines are five syllables, seven syllables, and five syllables. Would a few examples be helpful? Here’s the one I wrote last November about Chaos:
Pointy ears twitching, watching
Dreams stalking snowflakes
And a non-Chaos knitting one that I wrote a few years ago:
as I sit by the window
knitting, watching, still
Yeah, there’s obviously something about snow that inspires me to write haiku. Maybe this contest will have a cooling effect on the weather… Anyway! Leave your haiku below before 6 pm CDT Tuesday, August 15. At that point, I will use my favorite random number generator to select a winner. If the winner is a knitter, the prize will be that skein of hot pink and black yarn (the skein on the far right in the linked picture) I recently dyed, along with a few other goodies. If the winner is not a knitter, the prize will be unrelated to knitting and a second (hopefully knitting!) winner will be drawn.
Scourge of circulars
Master of all I survey
Give me more tuna.
Chaos in haiku
Almost black and yet strip-ed
Always amusing
maneki necko
subarashi neko
boku wa chaos
(trans.
lucky cat
wonderful cat
my name is chaos)
her eyes are yellow
her fur is a pretty black
her purr is soothing
Oh well, I gave it a try-I love the new look!!
Stately house panther
forced to model cotton bib
a secret, I like it.
Love defined, displayed
Chaos poses serenely
despite shameful bib
Poor Chaos! Lots of bib haiku’s.
sweet red sparkly mouse
why did I chase you away?
we were good friends once
LMAO! You guys are great!!! I love when people are encouraged to share their creativity!
Chaos, falling from fridge
Uprights self, licks, nonchalant,
“I meant to do that.”
Love the new look! Fun contest.
Ok, 2 more for ya!
Black panther slips past
Seeking out prey in the night
Sparkly red mouse flies
Sophisticated
Lordly king of the castle
Ooo wait! Yum! TUNA!!
black hair twitching tail
yellow eyes watching the yarn
come here my precious