The Serious Haiku Contest!
Example and 2006 notable:
Jesus called a thief
to be among his chosen-
there is hope
--Lee Strong
to be among his chosen-
there is hope
--Lee Strong
The Funny Haiku Contest!
Example and 2006 winner:
Keep losing temper,
Which saint am I to pray to:
Anthony or Jude?
Which saint am I to pray to:
Anthony or Jude?
--Tim Ferguson
The "sum up your spiritual life in six words" contest! (Read the article to get the idea here. These can be ironic, amusing, serious, or all three.)
Example:
Sin, repent, repeat, sin, repent, repeat.
Want to enter? Compose your masterpiece, and put it in the comments box. Or if you're shy, send it to ironiccatholic at yahoo dot com.
Get your entries in by June 28th. Tell your friends!
Also...I am teaching an intensive summer session the next two weeks, so blogging may be nonexistent. I'm still around, just busy. Now get crackin'!
And to make blog bling people happy, you can put this on your blog if your enter. Or even if you don't--what am I going to do, hunt you down?
Also...I am teaching an intensive summer session the next two weeks, so blogging may be nonexistent. I'm still around, just busy. Now get crackin'!
And to make blog bling people happy, you can put this on your blog if your enter. Or even if you don't--what am I going to do, hunt you down?
44 comments:
Entries for the serious Haiku contest (can one enter more than one? If not, choose what you feel is the best of the three!)
Crucified for me
Although my heart is like stone;
This is Love.
Jesus lifted up,
Broken, bleeding on the cross.
My Lord and my God!
Blessed Sacrament--
I avert my eyes in shame.
Have mercy!
Entries for the Funny Haiku Contest:
Here I am again.
Why do confessionals not
Have revolving doors?
Love my enemies,
Pray for my persecutors.
All but her.
I believe in God!
I think?
pretty much sums my spiritual life up to a tee.
One more for the "Spiritual Life in Six Words"--then I'll shut up.
I want to love Him more.
serious Haiku
Jesus loves me even
though I fail so explosively
He is my truest friend!
Serious HAIKU: SPEAK YOU
Melt on my proud tongue,
Blessed Sacrament Divine,
That I may speak You.
serious HAIKU 2: BORN AGAIN
Sprinkled infant now
Welcome, branch to the Lord's vine!
You are born again.
SIX WORD SUMMARY:
Not I, but You. I'm failing.
Funny Haiku entry:
INCENSE
Incense rises high —
Sacramental / God pointer –
So why do I cough?
6 WORDS ABOUT MY SPIRITUALITY
Praying always for a better me.
Entry for serious Haiku:
All Sacred Scripture
Inspired by the Holy Ghost
Is fragrant with God.
Serious Haiku: #2
Pictures from Hubble
Shout Thy majestic "I AM"
And that "i am not."
Serious Haiku #3
We sing a new song
When we give ourselves to Christ.
A song 'twixt lovers.
So many serious ones...
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Well, Nero is dead
so God sent down upon us
Worship Commissions
Well, I have written a couple of po-ems in my life, but this time I'll try a Clerihew, having just graduated from the 12th and maybe last annual American Chesterton Society Conference at the U of St Thomas in St Paul. Don't ask.
The Ironic Catholic
A notably humorous chic
Teaches babies and bloggers and scholars,
How by writing they can make more than a few dollars!
Six Words about my spiritual life.
Follow, fall, get up, fall, follow.
Hopeful, knowing I'll fail, I submit.
Funny Haiku
A Sunday night Mass
After a long bad hair day-
My heart aches for veils
My spiritual life in six words:
Help! Help, help, HELP! Oh, thanks.
six words:
Was lost. Found God despite myself.
Ray said you were taking clerihews!??? Only see his here. Less competition then.
Archbishop Nienstedt
Wasn't aware at the outset
That Minnesota nice
Could be as cold as ice.
My first and last clerihew :)
Limerick:
There once was a priest from Nantucket,
Whose thurible looked like a bucket.
"Sometimes, all alone,
From the archbishop's throne,
I'll see just how far I can chuck it!"
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Serious Haiku:
Going to you, Lord,
A Sagrado Corazon,
Always refuge I find.
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6 words:
"What I will, I do not."
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God Bless,
Ryan
How about a cinquain?
Psalms
expressive, timeless
writing, reading, living
God reigns benevolently powerful
Poetry
Giving our all
time and time again we
serve you, Lord.
Entry #1 for Spiritual Life in Six Words:
'I was never very good at Mathematics.'
Entry #2: 'Repentant, I fall. Merciful, You raise.'
Ok here I geaux (uhh that's cajun for go).
6 Word phrases that sum up my spiritual life.
-I want what is not good.
-God calls. I respond . . . usually poorly.
-Grace filled. I Passion mongered. Empty.
-I danced to God's burning violin.
I'll be back later with some poetry. I need a little time to write it.
Funny Haiku
Living water, huh?
Sure, I could use a good bath.
...Oh. Wait. Never mind...
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Not entirely
An intelligent notion
To match wits with God
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"Take and eat," he says.
"You will never thirst," he says.
What...I'm too skinny?
How often I turn from Him.
Funny Haiku
Lovely Sign of Peace
(But, do you shake or not shake
During flu season?)
Fun... ^_^
Serious haiku then:
Red Rose crushed
on calvary hill to save
poor dandelions.
Spirituality in six words:
"Life's Merciful Lord, defeat my self."
I have a few regular poems as well if you'd like to see them.
a married couple's life in six words:
Their job; pray spouse to heaven.
For the 6 words, from a tired preacher: Saturday night. No sermon. Oh crap!
There once was a Cardinal named Joseph Ratzinger,
The College of Cardinals put a special ring on his finger.
That special sign gave the world renewed hope,
That great man was made our new pope!
I hope this works as a clerihew. It is my first time writing one.
Serious Haiku:
Sometimes they show that
Even liberals know it's
Really a baby.
(Image.)
Six Words:
So much potential; what a shame.
What a GREAT contest! Thanks!
Funny Haiku #1
A convert's question:
Do cradle Catholics sing when
There's no one listening?
Funny Haiku #1 (rejoinder)
Do the Protestants
Ever stop with the singing
So they can listen?
Jesus!
I call out
not as an epithet,
but for help and mercy.
Humorous haiku:
Is there any place
For a protestant who reads
I.C.'s funny blog?
Appeal to ego:
The Ironic Catholic
Inspires, tickles me.
Sister Mary puns,
"A distinctive garment is
Quite a good habit."
Serious:
garden agony
stay awake and watch with me
as green vines turn red
Funny:
Fr. Smith preaching
a homily he found at
homilies dot com
Six word summary:
disgruntled sinner seeks truth in nutshell
Haikus
Poetry Contest?
Like I can write poetry.
Humph. Maybe next time.
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Catholicism:
Hey - if you can't beat the guys,
You join them instead.
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The Inquisition:
Perhaps not the best method
to "evangelize".
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The Church is One, Holy,
Cath-lic...and...wait, don't tell me
...it's...Melancholic?
You freed me from Law:
from a works-based righteousness.
Freed to be your slave!
Funny Haiku:
Choir starts to sing;
It's another Haugen hymn?
How many are there?
Serious Haiku:
In my folded hands
Beads linked to a crucifix
Powerful weapon
Not so serious:
Studying for comps,
The mind becomes unreasonable.
Professors go missing.
A demoniac:
Driven away when Jesus
Gave him the finger.
Serious:
A flame flickers,
And the fading light
Hides the white lily.
Here are two from Rueful Red, a reader at my blog:
His serious entry is from the close of the Te Deum:
In Te Domine
Speravi. Non confundar
In Aeternum.
And his playful entry is as follows:
Trendy liturgists
Beg the Lord to "Kum-bay-yah!"
But I don't.
Holy cow.
I get mentioned and one of my poems cited, then I don't stumble across it for a month and miss the deadline for the new contest. Sigh.
Thanks for the mention. I also see you got some good poems anyway.
I promise to pay attention. Really.
I gotta stop wasting my time on reading the ultra orthodox blogs. Little intentional humor on them anyway!
I love poetry but was never much for the Haiku.
It looks like some people do not know how to properly format their poems and are just writing lines lol.
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