Winners of The White Shoe Haiku Contest

The White Shoe Staff
[The White Shoe Haiku Contest ran for several months, with one winner posted every day alongside each new White Shoe piece. For a brief, shining moment, the haiku contest meant everything to us. It was a phenomenal thing. We had joy, we had fun, and despite the fact that this contest occurred during the winter months, it was as if we had seasons in the sun. Important Note: Although this page is archived as it originally appeared, this contest is over. If you still have haiku that you want to submit, we are sorry, but it is too late. Read the haiku to small children. They will give you prizes we cannot.]
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In addition to posting one new haiku alongside each White Shoe piece, we began and ended this contest by featuring a few haiku about haiku. Meta-haiku, if you will. Our postmodernity baffles even us. Enjoy the counterintuitive reverse-chronological-order goodness that follows.
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Enough is enough.
Haiku contest with your terse
terminology.

[Samuel Adair | 3.6.01]

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A first line of five
Then onto one of seven
Five on the last line

[Josh Stott | 3.6.01]

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Five, seven, and five
are seventeen syllables:
a perfect haiku

[Bake Neko | 3.6.01]

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If I write real fast,
there won't be time for my brain
to play editor.

[Susan Taplinger | 3.6.01]

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The first line has five.
The second line has seven.
Then end with five more.

[Lincoln Bahr | 3.6.01]

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My fingers are tired.
All this counting confuses.
Seven more than five?

[Rez | 3.6.01]

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some haiku express
depth of insight and beauty
but this one does not

[Rez | 2.12.01]

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Seasonal Haiku

Spring, summer, and fall
(sometimes also called autumn).
Last of all, winter.

[Lincoln Bahr | 2.8.01]

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When I have dry mouth
I like to get a cool drink
Man that tastes real nice

[Josh Stott | 1.17.01]

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For those who ask me
How do I write my haiku —
I use my fingers.

[Bake Neko | 1.3.01]

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Why am I angry?
Sell my soul for tuition —
unprepared teachers.

[Matt Graham | 12.11.00]

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Heavy Metal Haiku

duh duh duh duh duh
duh duh duh duh duh duh duh
Smoke on the water

[Richard Guest | 12.7.00]

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A tedious date
He kept on about his work
She admired her nails

[Mary Flodden | 12.6.00]

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If a tree falls on
someone you hate, do you still
need to hide the ax?

[Megan Schoonover | 12.4.00]

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The first line is too…
short — Now I count on my fin-
gers, and now it's done

[Susan Taplinger | 11.27.00]

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Writing bad haiku
Is like eating chocolate chips
Under the blankets

[Susanna Lee | 11.27.00]

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See the thought, pushing
against the seventeen bars
of its prison cell.

[Mark Orin Berrett | 11.27.00]

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Surely I am not
The first one to find humor
In changing haiku's length

[Eric D. Snider | 11.27.00]

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You pretty much can't
Use anapestic hepta-
Meter in haiku

[Reid Gray | 11.27.00]

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One two three four five
One two three four five six sev…
One two three four five

[Josh Stott | 11.27.00]

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A bird calls, doves coo
This day I think I will rue
I'm writing haiku

[Angela Zimmerman | 11.27.00]

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A poet I'm not,
though my third line does contain
"a seasonal word."

[Andrew Thomas | 11.27.00]