2011 Haiku Contest - Vote Now!

Voting is now open for the 2011 Haiku Contest!

All of the entries have been read and re-read by our panel of judges, leaving us with the top eleven for your enjoyment. You can vote once every hour, but you can enjoy these haiku as often as you want!

Poems after the jump.

Haiku:

cherry blooms blowing
in the morning sunshine...
two lovers embrace

By: Keith A. Simmonds, UK

Haiku:

B-boys on the stoop
spit rhymes and stare at the grass,
searching for Whitman.

By: Kenneth White, OH

Haiku:

John Deere is to lawns
What Dear John is to break-ups
Both seek greener grass

By: Tawana Petty, MI

Breaking Curfew:

Spring is sneaking home.
Took a dip in winter's pool --
Snow-drops bead her hair.

By: Megan Engelhardt, OH

Haiku:

Ten copies of me
Having s** with each other
A dopplegangbang

By: Duncan Shields, BC

Haiku:

Fractures of moonlight
graciously illuminate
my soul's hollow grave

By: Libby Merritt, VT

Haiku:

Landing on my hand
beautiful blue butterfly
brings me piece of sky

By: Suzan Lindsay Randle, UK

Haiku:

I don't care for you.
As hard as it is to say,
I don't care for you.

By: A.J. Chilson, TX

Haiku:

Killing me softly, the frustration of limp d**ks attempting hard notes.

By: Blaqbaree, NC

Haiku:

Passion is the coin
On which love and hate are struck:
So easy to flip

By: Jesse Parent, UT

Haiku:

Ask the panhandler
how he sets himself apart
: "I beg to differ."

By: GTZ, CA