Sensational Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Sensational Haiku Wednesday!”

Click here for info and background on this weekly event!

The basics:

Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)

As of February 3, 2010, Silly Haiku Wednesday has become “Sensational Haiku Wednesday”. Please adjust bookmarks and blog posts accordingly!

This week’s theme is: Reality

My submission for this week:

This life’s direction
In a diff’rent time would change
Move on, seize the day.

Next week’s theme: Comfort Zone

Thanks for the input, fellow haiku-ers! More than one person seemed to like “sensational” as a replacement word, so that is what I’ve chosen to go with. Of course you all know that I think you’re sensational regardless! Onward and upward! (New challenge graphics coming soon!)

Note: Nothing makes me happier than to see new people getting “hooked on haiku”! Keep it going to make it to the Hooked on Haiku List

To participate in this week’s event, please use the following code in your post on your own blog (if you don’t have a blog, post your Haiku as a comment):

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Silly Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”

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The basics:

Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)

This week’s theme is: Changes

My submission for this week:

Changes are coming
Because we’re not that silly
But what should it be?

Next week’s theme: Reality

Folks, we had our best turn out last week, and broke a record for haiku submissions! You all rock my world!!

The explanation for today’s haiku is simple. When I started Silly Haiku Wednesdays 31 weeks ago, I was flying by the seat of my pants. I do that – it’s how I roll. Consequently, regretfully, I didn’t put the amount of thought into the name as I probably should have. We’re not all that “Silly” most days. The amount of time and effort put in by all of you certainly suggests otherwise! We have come to take our weekly offerings very seriously, which I find immensely gratifying.

I’ve also heard from a lot of people over these months who object to having silly in the title, and it has definitely held a few people back from participating. Haiku isn’t silly. Senryu certainly can be, but really? It was a poor choice of wording on my part.

So let’s just fix this here and now! It’s time. Give me your ideas for what we can change the name of our Haiku meme to. Yes, it’s my meme, but those of you who participate faithfully week after week have a say too, as far as I’m concerned. Should we simply drop the “Silly” and make it “Haiku Wednesday”? Should we add a word to keep it going as SHW? Perhaps “Senryu/Haiku Wednesday”? How about “Sensational Haiku Wednesday”?

Lets talk about it. What do you think? Leave me a comment; tell me how you feel.

Note: Nothing makes me happier than to see new people getting “hooked on haiku”! Keep it going to make it to the Hooked on Haiku List

To participate in this week’s event, please use the following code in your post on your own blog (if you don’t have a blog, post your Haiku as a comment):

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Silly Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”

Click here for info and background on this weekly event!

The basics:

Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)

This week’s theme is: FreeStyle – your choice

My submission for this week:

Knarf, John-Boy, ShaMoo
Kindred souls, a harmony
Thankful for such joy

Next week’s theme: Changes

Feel free to continue challenging your own visitors – we’re having far too much fun not to share!

       

Note: Nothing makes me happier than to see new people getting “hooked on haiku”! Keep it going to make it to the Hooked on Haiku List

To participate in this week’s event, please use the following code in your post on your own blog (if you don’t have a blog, post your Haiku as a comment):

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Silly Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”

Click here for info and background on this weekly event!

The basics:

Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)

This week’s theme is: The Road

My submission for this week:

Crossroads or dead end?
So many speed bumps to dodge
Time will tell the tale

Next week’s theme: Freestyle (whatever you want!)

Feel free to continue challenging your own visitors – we’re having far too much fun not to share!

       

Note: Nothing makes me happier than to see new people getting “hooked on haiku”! Keep it going to make it to the Hooked on Haiku List

To participate in this week’s event, please use the following code in your post on your own blog (if you don’t have a blog, post your Haiku as a comment):

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Silly Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”

Click here for info and background on this weekly event!

The basics:

Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)

This week’s theme is: New Beginnings

My submission for this week:

Start the year anew
Fill it with goodness. Believe*.
Live, love, laugh… and sing.

*Believe is a song that we did this past Christmas holiday season that means a lot to my quartet. We sang it last night Monday night again, as a way to wrap up a very successful introduction to our new music.

Next week’s theme: The Road

Feel free to continue challenging your own visitors – we’re having far too much fun not to share!

       

Note: Nothing makes me happier than to see new people getting “hooked on haiku”! Keep it going to make it to the Hooked on Haiku List

To participate in this week’s event, please use the following code in your post on your own blog (if you don’t have a blog, post your Haiku as a comment):

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Silly Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”

Click here for info and background on this weekly event!

The basics:

Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)

This week’s theme is: Crunch Time!

My submission for this week:

Wallets now empty
Tree is up, dressed, and twinkling
Here we go again!

Next week’s theme: Aftermath

Feel free to continue challenging your own visitors – we’re having far too much fun not to share!

       

Note: Nothing makes me happier than to see new people getting “hooked on haiku”! Keep it going to make it to the Hooked on Haiku List

To participate in this week’s event, please use the following code in your post on your own blog (if you don’t have a blog, post your Haiku as a comment):

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Silly Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”

Click here for info and background on this weekly event!

The basics:

Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)

This week’s theme is: Guilty Pleasure?

My submission for this week:

Dancing around it
We pretend not to notice
And sing the same song…

I’m going to let you wonder what that means, but ShaMoo will know… ;)

Next week’s theme: Crunch Time!

Feel free to continue challenging your own visitors – we’re having far too much fun not to share!

       

Note: Nothing makes me happier than to see new people getting “hooked on haiku”! Keep it going to make it to the Hooked on Haiku List

To participate in this week’s event, please use the following code in your post on your own blog (if you don’t have a blog, post your Haiku as a comment):

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Silly Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”

Click here for info and background on this weekly event!

The basics:

Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)

This week’s theme is: Spirit of Giving

My submission for this week:

Commercial nonsense!
Focus on the family,
Not on the price tag.

Next week’s theme: Guilty Pleasure?

Congratulations to our winner of last week’s Challenge, Chanda, the Eco Cheap Mom, who will be guest posting here on December 20th!

Last week’s challenge did not have dramatic results, but we did pick up a few new players, and we will do it again for sure. Feel free to continue challenging your own visitors though – we’re having far too much fun not to share!

       

Note: Nothing makes me happier than to see new people getting “hooked on haiku”! Keep it going to make it to the Hooked on Haiku List

To participate in this week’s event, please use the following code in your post on your own blog (if you don’t have a blog, post your Haiku as a comment):

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Silly Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Silly Haiku Wednesday!”

Click here for info and background on this weekly event!

The basics:

Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)

This week’s theme is: It’s a Haiku CHALLENGE! …challenge..! …challenge..!

My submission for this week:

Where is your haiku?
Is you is, or is you ain’t…
A haiku chicken?

This week’s haiku is a challenge for your readers to join us! I see so many comments on your blogs after you’ve posted your fabulous haikus, and it makes me wonder why these same folks are not doing their own – they seem so into it! So grab one of these, and post it as your Haiku Challenge …along with your challenge haiku of course! (make sure you link it back here!). Maybe your readers will come out of the closet and finally join us.

       

Ask your friends to tell me in a comment that you referred them. The person who brings in the most new haiku-ers will guest-post on my blog on December 20th :) NEW Haiku-ers are welcome to join in the challenge too!

Next week’s theme: Spirit of Giving (Specifically, what you’re doing to share the joy this season)

Note: Nothing makes me happier than to see new people getting “hooked on haiku”! Keep it going to make it to the Hooked on Haiku List

To participate in this week’s event, please use the following code in your post on your own blog:

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