Thursday, January 20, 2011

Family Winter Olympics - Winter Haiku Contest

As part of our first official Family Winter Olympics we exercised our brains in the Winter Haiku Contest.  The contestants were given five minutes to compose a Haiku about winter or something that happened.  As a refresher a haiku is a Japanese form of writing that has 17 moras (I am not certain what a mora is, but in English we consider it to be syllables).  We typically write it as 5,7,5 in three lines.  If you want to know more check out wikipedia.  Here are the entries.  Vote for which one you think is best in the comments:

Entry 1
Winter (noun): season
characterized by frozen
precipitation


Entry 2
With hon by my side
three-legged snowy, cold race
I am in pain - LAME!


Entry 3
Go blow old Man Snow
from the North from Minnesota from Duluth
through Northfield through St. Olaf


Entry 4
Family Olympics
Ice cream snarf. Three-legged race.
Now Haiku Contest.


Entry 5
Titled: Skating
With my wings of steel
I fly over the cold lake
sky embraces me


The following are additional haiku that were created during the 5 minutes by our more prolific writers, but they are not official entries.

It must be winter
Sharon's complaining of cold
Robby's turns purple

Frosty
Has a corn cob pipe
Wakes and says "Happy Birthday"
What a weird snowman story.

Six inches of snow
graced us on Christmas Eve Day
Today it is still

Snow
Falling around me
Floating, glistening, melting
Frozen white blanket

Would you like to share your own winter haiku?

2 comments:

Wendy said...

They are all fabulous. But I like #5. It would be more fun to guess who wrote each one. I think I have a pretty good idea.

David and Andra said...

I like #5 too. Runner up #4.