Haiku Twitter Competition

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 7:20 | Filed in Fiction/Writing, Travel, twitter

I’ll start with my first entry:

tweet your haiku to
@kingsplace King’s Cross Station
haiku competition

ThePickards [1]

(Although technically this is a cheat, as I make it 18 syllables upon manual checking [5-7-6], but one of the automated counters said 17 so I’m having it here…)

I’ve always liked the poetry form Haiku, where you basically have a 17-syllable poem in a three line format with 5, then 7, then 5 syllables. It concentrates the mind amazingly well and can present beautiful imagery. It’s also quite fun to play with, which is the main reason I like it.

I came across this on BBC News:

Commuters fed up with the rainy weather can let off steam by “tweeting” poems about the summer which will be displayed at a London station.

All entries to the poetry competition will be shown on an outdoor screen at King’s Cross station until Friday.

People can send a message or “tweet” of up to 140 characters from their mobile phone to social networking site Twitter to enter the competition.

BBC News: Commuters asked to write haikus

Anyone wishing to take part might find — if you’re anything like me, and are not 100% sure how many syllables are in a particular word — that you aren’t entirely sure how many syllables make up a particular word. In this case you might want to use one of the syllable counters. But do treat them with caution, as they don’t all always return the same results…

thoughts turn to haiku
means of self isolation
on a crowded train

ThePickards [2]

send your entries now
competition runs until
friday of this week

ThePickards [3]

kings cross haiku fun
for competition details
follow URL
http://bit.ly/IpQGH

ThePickards [4]

…although obviously to ensure that the entries get picked up at the correct location, you need to direct them to @kingsplace. For the rest of the competition details, including the subject that the tweets are actually supposed to be about, see the haiku above…

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