Dash30Dash » Haiku http://www.dash30dash.com Art • Poetry • News Sat, 01 May 2010 14:00:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Napowrimo – Poetry Challenge – Day 9 – 9 http://www.dash30dash.com/poetry/poetry-challenge/napowrimo-poetry-challenge-day-9-9/ http://www.dash30dash.com/poetry/poetry-challenge/napowrimo-poetry-challenge-day-9-9/#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:00:14 +0000 Dash30Dash http://www.dash30dash.com/?p=191
You guys are kicking pure poetic ass. So I say take a break, and what better way to take a break then to sit back and relax in a big lounge chair and watch a movie. Grab some hot buttered popcorn, an ice cold coke, and kick up the leg rest.

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If you’re like me halfway through a movie these days, if I’m not fully submerged I start to think about why I’m not doing something productive like writing. So instead of watching a whole movie check out this trailer for a new movie produced by Tim Burton.

Your sixth Naporwrimo Poetry Challenge is:

9

Directed by Shane Acker. Produced by Tim Burton

If a picture is worth a thousand words, you’ve just entered a world of 1 bajillion!
  • Now take whatever you want from this, the feel, the voice, the visuals – as much or as little as you want
  • write a 3 Haiku tale (9 lines!)

remember a Haiku is a stanza of 3 lines with 5 syllables 7 syllables and then 5 again.

• Leave a link to your Day 9 napowrimo poem below – (it doesn’t have to be inspired by the challenge).

• Don’t have a blog? join our community and get a free blog where you can post your poem(s).

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]]> http://www.dash30dash.com/poetry/poetry-challenge/napowrimo-poetry-challenge-day-9-9/feed/ 2 Haiku Panic Challenge http://www.dash30dash.com/poetry/poetry-challenge/haiku-panic-challenge/ http://www.dash30dash.com/poetry/poetry-challenge/haiku-panic-challenge/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:00:23 +0000 Dash30Dash http://www.dash30dash.com/?p=69 We’re bringing back the Weekly Poetry Challenge! Check back every Monday for a new way to test your skills.

Last week was National procrastination week, so what better time then now to stop procrastinating and get something creative accomplished?

This Weeks Challenge: Haiku Panic!

March 9th is National Panic day among other things, so give me a series of three Haiku’s that convey a feeling of panic to the reader.

Remember Haikus
have syllables per sentence
of 5, 7, 5

Just do that three times
For 9 total sentences
That’d be 3 haikus

try to make each one
a bigger sense of panic
and then post it here!

You can leave your poems as comments below, or link to them from your own blog.

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Have fun!

]]> http://www.dash30dash.com/poetry/poetry-challenge/haiku-panic-challenge/feed/ 0 Haikus: Poetry for the Dying Man http://www.dash30dash.com/poetry/poetry-for-the-dying-man/ http://www.dash30dash.com/poetry/poetry-for-the-dying-man/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:00:51 +0000 Dash30Dash http://www.dash30dash.com/?p=11 by Ric and Sam


    Ric and I work in a large office.
    We both believe it is driving us crazy
    To pass the time, and try to retain our souls,
    We took a hint from the Movie Fight club
    Below (reversed for your ease) is one of many strings of Haiku’s

    —–Original Message—–
    From: Richard Sando
    Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 8:51 AM
    To: Samuel     Proof
    Subject: Wednesday

    Back in this drab place.
    Malaise saps mind’s life away.
    Like a dull cramp’s ache.

    —–Original Message—–
    From: Samuel     Proof
    Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 8:55 AM
    To: Richard Sando
    Subject: RE: Wednesday

    I’m inside the heart
    flowing computer through me
    man becomes machine

    —–Original Message—–
    From: Richard Sando
    Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 8:59 AM
    To: Samuel     Proof
    Subject: RE: Wednesday

    Mind melds with machine’s
    steady hum of whirring parts.
    too many restarts.

    —–Original Message—–
    From: Samuel     Proof
    Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 9:01 AM
    To: Richard Sando
    Subject: RE: Wednesday

    walls not trees nor skies
    cube within a cube within
    small parts repeated

    —–Original Message—–
    From: Richard Sando
    Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 9:04 AM
    To: Samuel     Proof
    Subject: RE: Wednesday

    New barriers are not
    seen, heard but felt silently.
    Are they closing in?

    —–Original Message—–
    From: Samuel     Proof
    Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 9:08 AM
    To: Richard Sando
    Subject: RE: Wednesday

    egregiously
    egoless situation
    save me from this self

    —–Original Message—–
    From: Richard Sando
    Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 9:38 AM
    To: Samuel     Proof
    Subject: RE: Wednesday

    Calls and no answers.
    Abrasive swirling voices raise.
    Fury ebbs and swells.

    —–Original Message—–
    From: Samuel     Proof
    Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 9:48 AM
    To: Richard Sando
    Subject: RE: Wednesday

    inside the heart, I
    buried alive, walls not trees
    as if it were night

    —–Original Message—–
    From: Richard Sando
    Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 10:02 AM
    To: Samuel     Proof
    Subject: RE: Wednesday

    Spirit sucking screen.
    Life sapping fluorescent lights.
    Smiles make my face ache.

    —–Original Message—–
    From: Samuel     Proof
    Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 10:05 AM
    To: Richard Sando
    Subject: RE: Wednesday

    liberation is
    lies and promises we tell
    ourselves every day

    —–Original Message—–
    From: Richard Sando
    Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 10:16 AM
    To: Samuel     Proof
    Subject: RE: Wednesday

    If I wasn’t here
    would anyone notice that?
    Skepticism creeps.

    —–Original Message—–
    From: Samuel     Proof
    Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 10:19 AM
    To: Richard Sando
    Subject: RE: Wednesday

    Forrest Gump, the dolt
    Champion of the simple
    and I get nothing

    —–Original Message—–
    From: Richard Sando
    Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 10:43 AM
    To: Samuel     Proof
    Subject: RE: Wednesday

    Run Forrest run fast.
    Awards for false happiness.
    Superficiality.

    —–Original Message—–
    From: Samuel     Proof
    Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 10:46 AM
    To: Richard Sando
    Subject: RE: Wednesday

    and here it all is
    I am Jack’s forgotten pride
    lay me down I’ve died

    —–Original Message—–
    From: Richard Sando
    Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 11:29 AM
    To: Samuel     Proof
    Subject: RE: Wednesday

    Everyone has one.
    Where is my one thing? One strength.
    Why must I still search?

    —–Original Message—–
    From: Samuel     Proof
    Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 11:31 AM
    To: Richard Sando
    Subject: RE: Wednesday

    been a long time down
    crooked road I thought made sense
    so what’s driving me?

    —–Original Message—–
    From: Richard Sando
    Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 11:33 AM
    To: Samuel     Proof
    Subject: RE: Wednesday

    Toe the line, languid feet.
    Reach to achieve the standards
    that are not my own.

    —–Original Message—–
    From: Samuel     Proof
    Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 11:44 AM
    To: Richard Sando
    Subject: RE: Wednesday

    there it is ahead
    carrot on a string for me
    sadly, I hate carrots

    —–Original Message—–
    From: Richard Sando
    Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 11:46 AM
    To: Samuel     Proof
    Subject: RE: Wednesday

    Carrot on a string.
    One step ahead, then one
    more. One more step, then…

    —–Original Message—–
    From: Samuel Proof
    Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 11:50 AM
    To: Richard Sando
    Subject: RE: Wednesday

    blank stares, soul and head
    stick a fork in me I’m done
    days end, then only sleep
    -30-

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