The Toast Point Haiku Contest!
July Entries
The Winners, Who Have Mastered the Art
In the Depressing category, Kittie wins with:
My loves have all died
The days flow relentlessly
In one direction
Dime Bar takes the Real-Life Drama award with:
Man sees a burglar
Same man rugby-tackles him
Man charged with assault
A feeling scribe tops the Eulogy competition:
Eva Gabor, gone.
Green Acres - her place to be.
No more flapjack meals.
Honorable Mention
Sad Sensitive Poet writes 7/24
Jolly Ranchers sit
Sunlight streams through the plum trees
Wrapper stuck for good
Kittie writes 7/16
Summer finery:
A bud this moment drooping,
Your lover sighing
Grumpus writes 7/14
Coffee far away
Gotta get butt out of bed
Stagger to kitchen
Kittie writes 7/14
Cats moaning their need
Summer hanging like damp wash
Sleeplessness again.
Phalangeman writes 7/10
I like the feel of
My woman's soft phalanges
Straithing my bare back
3M-TA3 writes 7/9
See Bobby Big Balls
Celibate as a Father
Training altar boys
Spunky Gibbons writes 7/7
Five months of O.J.
Stolid-faced, pensive, silent
Prosecution rests.
Esperanza Dominica Perez writes
Captain Crunch, jolly,
Blue-capped sailor of the seas
Sugar shock mouthpiece.
Bruce Willis writes 7/3
Die Hard yet again
Bad guy with accent and bombs
Escapism rules.
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