Haiku contest results

by: desmoinesdem

Mon Dec 28, 2009 at 06:47:28 AM CST

Favorites are after the jump.

egging on downturn
are economic scrooges,
the party of no

tmlindsey:

GOP don't rhyme
While sweatheart deals run amok
Haikus:  what the fuck?

We got a funny Republican perspective on health care reform from mirage:

You'r from Nebraska?
We NEED that vote on this crap!
Tell us what you need!!!!

ragbrai08 gave us an outsider's take:

corn fields to the left
traveling through Iowa
soybeans on the right

A look at the IA-03 race:

for the grandchildren
for the love of Iowa
a wrestling coach

And a comment on the Republican primary for governor:

GOP sweepstakes
A Branstad restoration?
God picks BVP

Over at The Iowa Republican, most of the entries had to do with the IA-Gov or IA-03 races or health care reform. It got nasty in the thread, but a few of the entries were funny. I liked this from anonymous:

We can't hear Steve Deace
In the northwest of Iowa
That is very good

At MyDD a couple of people composed haikus about Christmas. From chrisblask:

A time to be one
Another to be many
And one to be all

And from realtarheel:

Christmas IS a joy
Jews just don't understand it
But Jesus was one

Bob Brigham has no time for Democratic sellouts, and his haiku was in character:

The senate bill sucks
Dems cave before conference
FUBAR dumbasses

Judeling conveyed some progressive disappointment in a more subtle way:

Winds of Change and Hope
A Country of dust and rocks
The Man of Caution

Jerome Armstrong wrote one haiku himself:

Jane does the Grover
Cenk Young Turks the two by four
So its on with Rahm

Jerome also posted a "quasi-haiku" that his grade-school age son wrote and stuck on the refrigerator:

Obviously everything,
Many things,
Nothing left,
Impossible to count!

Speaking of parenting, at Mother Talkers most aspiring poets picked up on the Christmas food angle. For instance, from Suzanne77:

My kitchen's a mess
from heat my hair stands on end
the floor is gritty

mamacita shared a perspective on interfaith marriage:

After presents
from the tree, a movie and Chinese food
yes, we're both

baker baker was feeling the holiday stress:

family's annoying
this year it's too much to take
small kitchen - GET OUT!!!

I felt bad for Village:

Christmas is over
And no chocolate this year
Bah! Humbug! times two.

My favorite Mother Talker haiku was from lyn:

Warm savory smells
Roasted chicken made with love
Boys plead for ramen

So true, except in my house they plead for macaroni and cheese.

Ultimately, I was unable to pick just one winner. The two haikus that sounded most like poetry (to my ear) were Judeling's and ragbrai08's entry on Jim Gibbons.