The Toast Point Haiku Contest!
August Entries
August was a great month for the Haiku Contest since we got added to Yahoo.
Welcome, all! Interesting categories we got, too...
Categories for the Month
Joe McCauley writes 8/24
Winter Tree
Startled birds trailing off
All its leaves - gone!
Note from the Sage - this is no 5,7,5 haiku, but it's pretty.
Count your syllables, Joe!
Dr. Awk writes 8/21
Texas August heat -
The nightmare never ending.
October will come.
Alan Seeger writes 8/13
Mickey Mantle died
It is on the news right now
Legends too must die.
Harris writes 8/11
Pasta lies flaccid
The next course takes forever
Grievous company
Harris writes 8/8
Sleepless in my bed -
Shadowy tasks unstarted -
Vacation's over.
Vin writes 8/7
Hot night, salty breeze
Cold cream and sand on the sheets
More fun tomorrow
and...
Paint sanding and stain
Pizza and beer, aches and pains
Just helping Doreene
Vulpina writes 8/3
Grey morning and rain
Drawn commuters cough and groan
Pee in the subway
Keith Dale writes 8/3
Civilizations
Always rising and falling
The wave pounds the beach.
George Smith writes 8/24
An unanswered cry
From long ago leaves this mo-
ment unfinished oh
Ramone writes 8/10
The latnium gone
My mother on the Homeworld
Nude, filing my teeth.
Lynn writes 8/10
Glowing embers dance
The canyons play audience
To fangs dripping blood.
and...
Enveloping me
Locusts are wearing Nikes
The race has begun.
Furabo writes 8/5
From my tent, the view
Confirms suspicions..this is
Still the Pleistocene!
R.M. Usatinsky writes 8/3
Just like Dick Van Dyke.
Pants over his pajamas;
In time for supper.
Joe McCauley writes 8/24
Her dark hair shimmered
A midnight wave of sea foam
Crashing on white shores
Haikujane writes 8/16
Soft and seductive
The voice on his new machine
All one could desire
Vin writes 8/16
My soul flys to you
With songs of adoration
Forever hopeful
Victoria writes 8/9
Kiss me now. Kiss me
Hard with lips and tongue. Kiss me
So I remember.
Vin Kane writes 8/4
Wet grass on the breeze
Flowing wine with your soft touch
Alone without you.
and...
Red moon sticky winds
Flowing wine and your soft touch
Bye until next week.
Pabloalto writes 8/3
Your tight black sweater
Excites me makes me quiver
Take me home tonight!
Katwoman writes 8/3
Eyes of summer fire
Brand my soul, hot to the touch
Now I am yours, love
Coconut Lover writes 8/3
Awash in despair
I await a word from her
A crumb...some notice.
Bennie writes 7/29
Here's to us, one more
Toast and then we'll pay the bill
Feel the autumn chill
Bernard-Kenneth writes 8/31
Your partner's putting
Runs his ball way past the hole
You're smiling inside
Nathan writes 8/8
See the furry pet
Rumors of danger ring false
Just reach out - aackk! - snorsh!
Bill writes 8/3
The barroom floor stinks
I know this because I'm there!
Too many shooters...
Chunky writes 8/2
Spangly leotard
Low-impact aerobics tape
I hate Jane Fonda
Dr. Awk writes 8/24
Windows '95 -
Millions of dollars to buy
Macintosh '88.
Mrkdwhit writes 8/23
I'm surfing the Web
I see everyone out there
Completely alone.
Dr. Awk writes 8/23
Ada programming.
Novices seeking success -
Instantiation!
Computer haiku...
One zero one zero one.
What did you expect?
RushMC writes 8/3
Images, colors,
Around the world in seconds,
I'm surfing the Web.
Sister Mary Margaret Peter Norton writes 8/3
The dried earth covers,
Pale blossom stretching to sky
Prays for RAM, not rain.
Note from Toast Point:
The Depressing
Allison Vigil writes 8/25
On a leafless branch
The shadows of tomorrow
Fallen from your grace
Mavoureen writes 8/19
There are three dead birds
Three dead birds lying like death
And none of them fly
AlaricMKestrel writes 8/16
Dawn brings Golden Air
Magick questions answered soon
Enlightened secrets
Ah, How True
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