Dear Muse Contest Judges,
The authors of these
Three ladies most beauteous
Sent their warm regards.
These poems are long
But sum the Iliad well
In perfect Haiku!
Sincerely,
Carrie F., 15
Emily F., 16
Grace F., 15
Book I
Runner Achilles
Makes Agamemnon real mad
Rage is felt by all
Book II
Catalog of Ships
Is at the end of this Book
We skimmed the surface
Book III
Paris Duels Greek King
Aphrodite saves the prince
Helen laughs at him
Book IV
Trojans break a truce
Quite a large battle ensues
What a big surprise
Book V
Fighting once again
Can’t they all just get along?
Someone dies–guess not.
Book VI
The domestic book
Where we see Hector in Troy
And Paris acts dumb
Book VII
Hector fights Ajax
But don’t get too excited
It ends in a tie
Book VIII
Lightning sent by Zeus
Stops the fighting for awhile
Believe me, not long
Book IX
There is a meeting
They want the runner back now
Achilles please fight
Book X
Two Greek Captains sneak
To the Trojan camp at night
Like little children
Book XI
The fighters make war
Trojans die along with Greeks
“No way out–no end–â€
Book XII
Trojan soldiers fight
Despite an evil omen
They really shouldn’t
Book XIII
Sneaky Poseidon
Starts the skirmish up again
Still fighting they are
Book XIV
This book is filled with
Seduction, deceit, and death
This sounds like a soap
Book XV
Hector was wounded
We forgot to mention but
He still kills people
Book XVI
In Runner’s armor
Patroclus will fight and die
His friend will be mad
Book XVII
Ajax slaughters foes
Defending buddy’s body
The Gods help him win
Book XVIII
Patroclus has died
Achilles goes all emo
Thetis gets armor
Book XIX
Achilles gets dressed
While all the other Greeks eat
His armor’s shiny
Book XX
Zeus lets the Gods fight
Playground bullies once again
Stealing lunch money
Book XXI
The river is full
Choked with the corpses of men
Such great imagery
Book XXII
Poor Hector is dead
As if we couldn’t have guessed
Blame foreshadowing
Book XXIII
Funeral games start
The end is drawing closer
Only one more Book
Book XXIV
Why is this book here?
A question much debated
Was Homer crazy?
Conclusion
Summary of Book:
Greeks kill many Trojan guys
Trojans kill Greeks too
*applause* WHOOOOOT! Great stuff!
Say what is this thread for?
I don’t really understand
But I wrote Haiku!
Well, the magazine
Didn’t have room to publish
This contest entry.
Meanwhile, somebody
Asked for a blog haiku day.
The result: this thread.
I wrote a Haiku for the skool social worker whos getting hip surgery. Want me to post it?
Sure, go right ahead!
That’s what Haiku Day is all
About, isn’t it?
What magazine? Muse?
was there a contest type thing?
I still don’t get it.
“Ultracondensed Books
and Movies” was the contest
for February.
The other winners
will appear in the July/
August magazine.
I like it a lot
I am attempting to write
haiku yes I am
Aww man! I meant to
Do that one. *sigh* Another
Muse Contest gone. Darn.
Oh well, can’t wait ’til
I see the other winners!
This one should be good…
This thingy here is
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!
*bows to the authors*
It’s so amazing
That I actually just
Read a haiku book.
grounded, i have been.
o, happy blog haiku day!
yes, i have returned.
Haiku is hard to
write I feel you are taking away
the fun of blogging.
(at least on the part of the blog. Oops, that wasn’t haiku. sorry.)
Haiku’s easier
If you just write a sentence
Then divide it up.
I hope the smiley
Doesn’t count as an extra
syllable. It’s not.
I love this haiku
The authors deserve great praise
I applaud for them!
If I had studied
this haiku the book would have
been clearer to me.
writing a hiky
with seventeen sylables
is very diffic
I remember now!
The February contest!
I do understand!
the authors are great
very creative in ways
ingenious haikus
deserves to be
put in the Muse magazine
but, alas, too long
it is a shame, though
our haikus only serve as
comments in response
why do we not
come up with our own haikus
about other things?
so, this poetry
is the music of the pen
or, here, the keyboard
Harry Potter in Haiku
a great undertaking
Book 1
Harry finds out that
he is a wizard, and he
has lots of fun at
His new school Hogwarts
Has an awesome adventure
against a Dark Wiz.
Book 2
Harry is back, and
saves his best friend Ron’s sister
from an evil wiz.
Book 3
This time Harry is
finding a new godfather
and fighting scaries.
Book 4
The Quidditch World Cup
and a special tournament
Evil Wiz is back!!
Book 5
Oh, where is Hagrid?
The Order saves the day again!
SIRIUS IS DEAD!!
Book 6
Harry is angsty
The Half-blood Prince- who is he?
DUMBLEDORE IS DEAD!!
Book 7
Nobody knows what
this book is going to be
but we’ve got ideas!!
TADA!!
I applaud greatly
The Harry Potter haiku
I liked it a lot.
Quintessentia
My name is one line of this
Off-topic haiku.
George Orwell’s 1984 in Haiku
Winston is alone
He has nothing to live for
What is he to do?
Julia appears
Suddenly Winston feels love
Winston will rebel!
Two heroes unite
Fight an evil dictator
But in the end, lose.
The heroes part ways
Winston is alone again
Nothing really changed.
The End
if only they had
done that for the odyssey
it is very good
The GAPA wonders:
When Haiku Day is over,
Should I close this thread?
kiki, your haikus
are great. I like the one at
the top too it’s fun
I wanted to try
to enter that contest, I
had some good ideas
I have a book of
Haiku versions of great books
here are some I like
The Inferno, Dante:
Abandon all hope!
looks like everyone’s down here
Omigod- The Pope!
The Odessey, Homer:
Aegean forecast:
storms, chance of one eyed monster
delays expected
There are more, but I
would have to find the book to
remember them, yes.
Dante on the Role
Play thread can only write in
Haikus, it’s a curse
21 and 25-
thank you so much, I
think you should write down some of
your favorite books
in haiku too, it’s
so much fun and it can be
very humouros!!
Thenk ya, thank ya very much…
I tried in vain to
Access this thread late last night
It was annoying
However, the poems
Were amusing and quite good
Yaay for the authors
24-No, i missed most of
Haiku day, despite that it
was my invention
I would like this thread
to stay open a bit more
if that’s fine with y’all.
Yes, i meant y’all as
just one syllable, not two.
Just pretend. I’m tired.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
O.K., we’ll keep it
Going for as long as “y’all”
Keep posting on it.
Hey, I am southern
so there! Actually Ohio,
but that’s south to me.
People say soda
anyway, so whatever
Night everybody
(27)
I set the thread to
stay offline until midnight
(stupid GAPA trick).
I am not Southern.
I live far from there
And I am rawther annoying.
Lord of the Rings
Frodo gets ring of
doom goes on quest to destroy
ring his friends help him
I am not from the
south. I am from the north. I
have a small accent
Skipper wonders this:
What qualifies as southern?
Does Arizona?
Yes, it is southern
but we don’t have the accents
nor do we say y’all
So is it where you
live, or your manner of speech
that qualifies you?
Catch 22 in Haiku
Cathcart wants to be
general, Yossarian
wants to be released
Milo can buy eggs
for seven cents in Malta
and sell them for five
He still makes profit
Yossarian wonders how;
Capatilsm?
Snowden freezes to
death, and gets all over Y,
Orr crash lands again
Sad stuff, Bad stuff, yeah
cry, laugh, sob, giggle, gasp, choke
Chronilogical
Order is over
rated! So is sanity
It all ends well, though.
That wasn’t very
good, but if youhave read the
book, you’ll understand
so many haikus
they are all so wonderful
harry potter rox
now it is time for
yes now it is time for a
haiku of my own
first i must think one
up, but my mind is blank and
i cannot, oh well
How about haikus
for HP7? Closest
guess wins. Example:
“Voldy is Harry’s
father. He repents and dies.
Ewoks help burn him.”
this is a haiku
it is written by zoe
i hope you like it
Thank you for keeping
After Haiku day!
It is very fun.
Mrs. Norris is
Voldemort’s mom, Merope.
An Animagus.
I am wondering
when the seventh book comes out?
I wait and hunger.
At least one person
Dies a tragic, icky death
Thanks to Vold. and Crew
There’s some big problems
With those Inferi-type dudes
Vampires, too
Weasly and Granger
Get caught up in their romance
And desert Potter
Potter goes emo
Voldy nearly destroys him
Friends don’t come in time
To completely save
Potter is there physic’ly
But goes sorta nuts
Is J.K. Rowling
Writing an epilogue to
Go after book seven?
I heard that somewhere,
But it might just be a false
Rumor being spread
36-
Seeing the simil-
arities to Star Wars too?
They are obvious.
Such as Ron and Herm.
Who are like Leia and Han, duh.
In love forever.
I know my haikou
Is bad. So what. I don’t care.
La La La LA La
Ron the sidekick dies.
Hermione angsts a lot
What a big surprise.
Potter is a nut
Hermione’s a total weed
I am very shocked.
Harry runs away.
Hermione loves draco
The siries continues
So totally shocked
Am I to the high extreme
That Ron die Die DIES.
Shocked also I am
That Hermione flips out
Those two are really
Really too sappy
J.K. Rowling is slipping
In a real bad way
KY is Southern
We say y’all and howdy lots
It’s a friendly state.
I think the author
(J.K. Rowling) is writing
the books to fit the
movies. you agree?
I have a friend who came up
with that idea…yep.
I seem to have sparked
A lot of Harry Potter
haikus. Very cool.
Dude. there’s like, what, 11 post about Harry Potter now.
sorry thats not in haiku.
I didn’t mean to post
But the haikus were awesome
So I say one thing
^Okay, that comment didn’t make a ton of sense (maybe it’s just because I’m reeeeally tired that it doesn’t mean anything whatsoever to me). Anyway, the general thrust of my gist was that I did not come intending to post, but that nerd Ebeth MADE ME come here and read this thread, and I couldn’t resist posting just one thing. Now I go back to a life of obscurity.
Yay! MG posted!
Thanks, Ebeth, for making her.
Was it fun, MG?
My fearless forecast
about book number 7
(we’ll see how I do):
Neville shines somehow.
Slytherins finally prove
They’re not just Nazis.
Two thousand pages.
Harry’s the seventh horcrux,
Slays V. but dies too.
Someone kills someone.
So short it doesn’t need to be in haiku.
What is the rule for
(meter–wise, that’s what I mean)
a perfect haiku?
R. Coontz, your theories
For book number seven
sound good to me, too.
(a)
First, five syllables.
Second, seven syllables.
Third, five syllables.
(b)
We’ll see. Or maybe
she’ll give us Darth Voldemort
and Ewoks. Who knows?
omg, I just woke up.
today is my brother’s birth-
day. He gets presents.
Seriously, I
am falling asleep
on top of my keys.
*zzzzz* off to post on the dream thread!!
Yay, it is monty!
She read the haiku thingy!
Go Montgom’rygurl!
MG! You have re-
Turned! I am glad to see a
Post from you today!
Two thousand pages
sounds so very wonderful
to me, a bookworm.
We rejoice greatly
That MontgomeryGirl is
back for a little.
I must leave. Brother is ratting me out for not doing my homework like I’m supposed to.
We’re doing Potter
I’ll do Charlie Bone because
the plots are REAL close
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mr. Pilgrim is
Charlie’s father, I am sure.
Happy Ending, C.
I’m glad that you like
The Charlie Bone series, and
I hope others do.
They are fantastic.
I am not sure with your thought,
Though, GES. (syllable here)
i told all my senior friends that id write them haikus for farewell notes…theyll probably turn out quite interesting
The haiku style is
rather tranquil. It makes me
feel calm and relaxed.
Post 53 I
agree with. It will happen
like that. It seems right.
The Iliad was
beautiful. Hooray! Brava!
A work of genius.
I liked Charlie Bone
But I haven’t read the books
Very recently.
Writting in haiku
is adicting. Now I will
Write this way always.
The place called Haiku
is about ten miles from where
I sit right now. Cool!
Well, maybe more like
twenty. I exagerate.
(or inxagerate?)
Impossible? Yes.
Boring? Definitely not!
We should try to set
A world record! Or
Aim for USA. The most
Haiku written with
No breaks! (That means no
Non-haiku writing on here)
Where are you sitting
Right now, AP-d?
(66). That is cool, I must
Admit. Very cool.
Charlie Bone cannot
ever live up to Harry
Long live Harry P!!
Haiku writing is
Something of a stress on my
Guidance circuits. Ow.
There isn’t any
Milk in the fridge this morning
Oh what shall I do?
Behind the juice
Leftover hunan kung pao
Last night I ate some
Untraditional
Breakfast ensues with chopsticks
I have heartburn now
69- SO right.
Tiawan Hippo Fan,
I don’t know if I can say.
I fear getting snipped.
I’ll try though. I am
[Please don’t tell us the name of the town or city you live in unless its population is REALLY large (over 250,000 people). — Rosanne]
(did it work?)
Oh well. I’m sorry
Rosanne, for trying to say
where I am. I won’t
do it again. It
wasn’t really a town so
I thought it was fine.
67 how
about we start a thread for
that? -From Darth Yoda
I am sorry, AP-
d, for forcing you to say
Where you were/are, etc.
You know whose pop. is
Really big?! Kockle-Shnockle, where
I used to live. It
Has seven million-
kajillion people per
Square inch! Amazing!
[Don’t worry, Andromeda Pineapple-duck. No harm done. We just want to keep info about where MuseBloggers live to a minimum so no crazy stalkers who take a fancy to any of you will be able to track you down.]
Like Ebeth, for example.
jk.
I am unhappy.
A certain guy hasn’t emailed
me in far too long.
Was it what I said?
Silly me, thinking that I
had a chance with him.
‘Twas Once a mag’zine
Whose Charaecters made us gleen
Bo Has gave us facts
Urania fair
Watched the stars twirl through her hair
Then Koko threw pie
now her rage ensued
The great struggle had begun
Pie whizzed through the air
Struggle has not ended
Many Have been lost to the GPW
They struggle on today
This
Rocks.
If only I could
Write Haiku.
Oh well.
Mooooooooooooooo
I have a little book of cat haiku and i wonder if i could post some or can i not because they are copy-righted? Please let me Know GAGAs— oooooooooooooops I mean GAPAs.
meeeeeeoooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
wooooooooooooffffffffffffffff
the above was so i cud have 3 animal sounds and that last one was my 1/4 woolf Estrella (ehs-tray-yuh).
Posting a few selections should be all right.
Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
78-true,
but online is more my line
Em gets the phone books.
Stalking’s addicting
I must admit. Maybe we
should join the S.A.
(That would be Stalkers
Anonymous in case you
didn’t figure that out)
stalkers anonymous! ” hello, my name is em, and it has been seven weeks since i googled a complete stranger.”
i haven’t read it
but my dad said it’s perfect
limericks next, please
Isaac Asimov’s
Tales of the Black Widowers
Homer limericks
A character wrote
One for each book in stories
I read this summer
Sorry for tangents
I saw the word Iliad
Thought that you should know