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Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival

blue shadows — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:52:33 -0800

This year's winners of the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival's annual haiku contest were recently announced.

By: Stonestock Relentless

Stonestock Relentless — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:12:57 -0800

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

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:29:02 -0800

Vancouver, eh? OK, Meatbomb, this one's for you: border agent's eyes cherry blossoms desktop file spring, and laptop seized

By: Iridic

Iridic — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:35:31 -0800

scarlet mars my shirt your hand yet holds the weapon: cherry popsicle

By: ethnomethodologist

ethnomethodologist — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:52:03 -0800

Cherry blossoms here Get your cherry blossoms here Get 'em while they're hot

By: datawrangler

datawrangler — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:05:38 -0800

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.

By: datawrangler

datawrangler — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:06:46 -0800

"cradles" should be "cradle" yech/sorry, grammarians....

By: Bernt Pancreas

Bernt Pancreas — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:34:02 -0800

drop a bing cherry into a shot glass; cherry blossoms into pledge.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:29:42 -0800

take off, you hoser take off to the great white north beauty way to go

By: Turtles all the way down

Turtles all the way down — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:09:22 -0800

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

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:47:08 -0800

last night i ate lots of velveeta and look! now my stool's kind of puce.