Today, as National Poetry Month draws to a close, there’s a special treat in store for you.
Peyton Price, poet/author of the new Suburban Haiku: Poetic Dispatches from Behind the Picket Fence has delivered a few fresh haiku, as well as your chance to win some POETRY SWAG.
A resident of suburban Maryland, Peyton’s been capturing the essence of the ‘burbs in haiku form (three lines that employ a total of 17 syllables, broken into phrases of 5-7-5) for quite some time now, and she’s elevated it to high — and hilarious — art. Some of my faves from her book:
I keep a close eye
on the hummingbird feeder.
Yep. It’s still putrid.
For tonight’s potluck
please mark what is Gluten-Free
so I don’t eat it.
Dare I say something?
I think her carpool “conflict”
is hating carpool.
Now that you’re all warmed up, let’s get to the giveaway. We’re challenging you to create a mashup of a movie critique and a haiku: a haiku review.
Get inspired by the following examples from Peyton and yours truly, then visit the comments section below to post your own movie review in haiku form (three lines: 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables). Enter as often as you like in the next week. Contest ends May 7, 2014. All entries will go into a pool and one randomly drawn poet-winner will get their very own copy of Peyton’s adorable-but-subversive little book.
From Peyton:
DIVERGENT
Like Hunger Games, yes
but with sexual yearning.
(What? That guy is hot!)
MUPPET MOVIE
The audience laughed!
In fact, there was some shushing
from embarrassed kids.
From me:
SPIDERMAN
Tobey’s got talent —
Nimble in Spandex; good at
upside-down kissing.
Have fun — and thanks for playing!
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