Win a Pair of Tickets to Locally Grown With Haiku
I have a pair of reserved tickets to this Saturday's Locally Grown concert for one talented participant.
It's time for a haiku contest! In the comments of this post, give us a haiku on food. Read more about the concert, and get ideas for your haiku by reading the Locally Grown press release I posted last week. You can enter more than once. Winner will be chosen by an as-yet-undetermined number of judges on Thursday, 4pm.
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Comments (23)
when's the deadline tyler? any other rules to follow?
Comment #1 Posted by: dk | June 17, 2009 10:16 AM
"Winner will be chosen by an as-yet-undetermined number of judges on Thursday, 4pm."
No other rules, just a fun little contest. Thanks!
Comment #2 Posted by: Tyler | June 17, 2009 10:20 AM
Farm-to-School program
benefit under the stars
oh! it will be fun
Comment #3 Posted by: Randy Graham | June 17, 2009 12:54 PM
Am I what I eat?
Does my body course with life?
Thank you, Mother Earth.
Comment #4 Posted by: Smitty West | June 17, 2009 04:41 PM
Children are brilliant
Feed their body, mind and Soul
Belly to brain food.
Comment #5 Posted by: Raymond | June 17, 2009 10:54 PM
Silly, slurping sounds
Summer's bounty bows a branch
Fuzzy ripe peaches
Visit the garden's
Beauty in form and flavor
Nourishing bounty
Claret dark plum juice
Escapes my lips as I bite
Rubenesque, ripe bliss
Plum Crazy Jelly ~~ (Title)
Dark crimson plum juice
Hisses and oozes over
Sticky mess for days
Sticky explosion
Forgotten pot boils over
Jelly making oops
Food is more than that
It nourishes but also
It pleasures this life
Savor every meal
For the miracle it is
Each and every bite
Beignet's at Cafe du Monde ~~ (Title)
Powdered sugar cough
Breathed in when I took a bite
Amateur's mistake
Comment #6 Posted by: DK | June 17, 2009 11:40 PM
Ahh hum!
I think we have a winner!!
Comment #7 Posted by: Suza | June 18, 2009 06:34 AM
Ahh humbug!
The yummy writing of DK led me to search once again what it is that separates a haiku from other short, light verse...
Is it too late to expand the rules of the game?
Comment #8 Posted by: Suza | June 18, 2009 06:48 AM
Off to a wedding.
No Perla or Jack Johnson.
Locally Groaning!
Comment #9 Posted by: dennis | June 18, 2009 07:11 AM
Growing children need
Sweet juicy Ojai tangerines
Not cokes and twinkies
Comment #10 Posted by: Suza | June 18, 2009 07:13 AM
Whoops! I counted wrong.
Correction to the second line so it has seven syllables:
Growing children need
Juicy Ojai tangerines
Not cokes and twinkies
Comment #11 Posted by: Suza | June 18, 2009 08:02 AM
Suza, you rock!
Comment #12 Posted by: Jock Doubleday | June 18, 2009 08:08 AM
Collect the acorns,
spread them out on a grass mat
beneath the hot sun.
Comment #13 Posted by: poetry | June 18, 2009 08:36 AM
Suza,
I think mine are haikus, two have titles. What are you seeing that I'm not?
Comment #14 Posted by: dk | June 18, 2009 10:40 AM
This seed planted here
A side dish for my dinner
In eight weeks time
Lettuce ponder this
If a kiss is just a kiss
Salad is pure bliss
Growing from the earth
Varieties join to please
Refreshing salad.
Comment #15 Posted by: chris Jensen | June 18, 2009 11:32 AM
I wish I wish I
To plant to plant to plant to
Palate to palate
Comment #16 Posted by: mk | June 18, 2009 11:57 AM
I'd rather eat dirt
Than a batch of chemicals
Bring on the mud pie
Digging in the dirt
Brings the veggies home to us
Dinner from our town
Comment #17 Posted by: DK | June 18, 2009 12:00 PM
:) MK, singing your ditty in my head
Comment #18 Posted by: DK | June 18, 2009 12:04 PM
How fun to read these Haikus during lunch...
DK, I am so dense! Forgive me, I did not understand what was meant by "title."
But of couse now that it's been pointed out to me that your wonderfully delicious writings are individual haikus, it makes perfect sense!
So I stand by my Comment #7!
Comment #19 Posted by: Suza | June 18, 2009 12:25 PM
Ohhh I see. Yes they are all individual. My brain works in fits n spurts so I just put them all out there. I should show you the photos to go along with the plum explosion that happened last week from the 'start' of the annual plum jelly making.
Love that you used pixies :)
p.s. what's intriguing is when I looked up the work of haiku masters they do not follow the 5/7/5, it's much looser! This is why we are not the masters grasshopper...
Comment #20 Posted by: DK | June 18, 2009 12:44 PM
Ojai haikus = Ohaikus
Comment #21 Posted by: Suza | June 18, 2009 12:51 PM
DK, just now read your Comment #20.
Very interesting!!
Gotta run...till later...
Comment #22 Posted by: Suza | June 18, 2009 12:57 PM
22 minutes left - anyone else?
Comment #23 Posted by: Tyler | June 18, 2009 03:38 PM