Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival
March 7, 2008 6:52 PM   Subscribe

This year's winners of the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival's annual haiku contest were recently announced.
posted by blue shadows (10 comments total) 3 users marked this as a favorite
 
What the hell, these haiku suck. Turns of phrase this phoned in need at leas some Roger Dean artwork. And what kind of name is "Tito (Stephen Henry Gill)?" These are mostly just people describing a thing or a place and sticking the words "cherry blossom" at the beginning or end.
Here's my entry:
Cherry blossomsssss
Tito (Stephen Henry Gill)
Git wang bung bent git
posted by Stonestock Relentless at 7:12 PM on March 7, 2008 [2 favorites]


Vancouver, eh? OK, Meatbomb, this one's for you:

border agent's eyes
cherry blossoms desktop file
spring, and laptop seized
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:29 PM on March 7, 2008 [1 favorite]


scarlet mars my shirt

your hand yet holds the weapon:

cherry popsicle
posted by Iridic at 7:35 PM on March 7, 2008 [1 favorite]


Cherry blossoms here
Get your cherry blossoms here
Get 'em while they're hot
posted by ethnomethodologist at 7:52 PM on March 7, 2008 [5 favorites]


Girl sits by the creek
floppy-brimmed hat shades her book
blossoms cradles dreams.


Yes, it's seventeen syllables; not true haiku. But then, most of the poems in that link didn't seem to abide by the spirit of haiku, such as I understand it. And yes, it's an imperfect understanding.
posted by datawrangler at 8:05 PM on March 7, 2008


"cradles" should be "cradle"

yech/sorry, grammarians....
posted by datawrangler at 8:06 PM on March 7, 2008


drop a bing cherry
into a shot glass; cherry
blossoms into pledge.
posted by Bernt Pancreas at 8:34 PM on March 7, 2008


take off, you hoser
take off to the great white north
beauty way to go
posted by not_on_display at 11:29 PM on March 7, 2008 [1 favorite]


take off, you hoser

I'm wiping a tear, not_on_display. But here's what cherry blossoms mean to me:

Vancouver springtime
Pink shit all over the street
Now it's on my rug
posted by Turtles all the way down at 12:09 AM on March 8, 2008 [1 favorite]


last night i ate lots
of velveeta and look! now
my stool's kind of puce.
posted by Dizzy at 4:47 AM on March 8, 2008 [1 favorite]


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