This is the first time we are running this contest. We are looking for a haiku that has anything to do with Christmas or the holidays. It could have a feast in it, snow, snowmen, Christmas trees, lights, anything Christmas to be considered as a winner. Please remember the winning haiku will be in our print and digital issue, and some of the entries will be included as well. The amount of Christmas in the poem doesn’t matter, but it has to have something of Christmas in it.
Haiku has to be a traditional form, but we are not going by conventions. Five 7 Five is ok here. We are looking for that warm and fuzzy feeling here, or insightful. The highest quality haiku with the best message and imagery will be the winner. The more Christmas the better, but it can be ANYTHING Christmas to be considered.
Anyway quick rules:
Haiku
5 7 5 form
Anything Christmas in it
Deadline is Ongoing
Post the Haiku in the comments below
If you have any questions the only other answers I have is this example. I wrote it. It’s not fantastic or anything. Also, I’ve screwed up the count many times on these things, so if it is off, you let me know in the comments:
Ex-lover
The transformation
left her naked, shivering
beside the remains
I know it’s not traditional to put a title with it, but I think it’s a nice touch, so feel free.
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tinsel
whatever cheap shine
you drape to cheer our spirits
is just fine with me
Finally, again
Laughter in busy kitchens
As it used to be
Wrapped empty boxes
for imaginary friends
no Christmas greetings
BARREN
the Christmas season
was always ambivilent
four miscarriages
the Christmas season
is always ambivilent
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FOR THE CHILDREN
Christmas for children
lights glowing in their bright eyes
the pure innocense
It is all about
love compassion hope and faitjh
holiday season
Tinsel, lights, and trees
A babe born for you and me
Bringing goodwill, peace
Love, in a pure son,
Oh,come let’s us adore him
Deck the house with joy.
Kids are grown and gone
A Christmas warm and cozy
Just like the first one
Snowflakes,
Catching them in mittens,
on eyelashes and on the tongue.
Like a Christmas song .
A star in the sky,
a star on the Christmas tree–
harbingers of joy.
Rejoicing
Festive greens, tinsel
Mistletoe hanging above
Babe in manger, LOVE
Starry Sky
Peaceful dove flies ’round
Snow is stacked on evergreens
Silence of the Night
1973
Christmas at mom’s house
ribbon candy, relatives
and a midnight mass
All I Want…
Mood rings, lava lamps
pet rocks, cabbage patch, walkmans
gifts of yesteryear
Mixed Berries
Hanging above us
Mistletoe green and Holly
Your lips burn. Passion!
First Times
This is the first time
The first Christmas in my life
Missing you mother
Eve of Christmas
Christmas Eve has come
Smiling faces around me
Loving embraces
Christmas bells ringing
beside red pots on the streets.
A time for giving.
frozen raindrops hang
from tree branches cold and bare –
Christmas fairy lights
A Christmas party
Couples dancing and singing
Champagne all around
the Christmas tree lights
line the houses and the lanes
sparkle in our eyes
a little magic
everywhere we go and see
that’s what Christmas is
peace, love, kindness
it’s time for more compassion
that’s what Christmas is
Christmas Eve
t’was a silent night
a peaceful world in our dreams
believe it or not
yule sun away
broken hearts, christmas gone
stockings droop
Gone
Empty, quiet house.
Haloed lights blink red and green
brittle needles stab.
The lonely quiet beauty of Christmas.
sun sets christmas day
unwrap the broken hearts
sad stockings droop
Trees with lights so bright
Sparkle with bright stars at night
Look, soft light shines on.
Bright Christmas flowers
Paint the season with beauty
For the heart to see.
Christmas offers hope
Lighting darkness in winter
Warming longing hearts.
christmas eve
beloved ghosts seek
a previous me
the old see that star
and follow it to love
the young twirl tinsel
gentle fire of yule
ghosts and children ramble
the old, smiling, sleep
Christmas Snow Blossoms
The white shawl houses
from unforgiving snowfall
Christmas blossom charms
Family
Hugs okay for family you hate–
next year they may be gone
And Christmas won’t mean the same.
May our spirits be
One in joy and charity
Et Pax vobiscum
overstuffed stockings
drop from cold brick mantle place
mice feast on candy
ice-covered mittens
thaw by the open fire
crows peck marshmallows
barter & banter
family of snowman
swap twigs and carrot noses
under moonlit sky
cars dressed of green vine
idle at blinking red light
as Nutcrackers march
Our winner:
Vennessa Scholtz
Tinsel, lights, and trees
A babe born for you and me
Bringing goodwill, peace
Congratulations! All of these entries were amazing, and I love this contest! This Haiku won in the end for having both image and message while staying true to form.
Christmas,
Joy and peace is one.
As kids playing in the snow.
Christmas;here we go.
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