Haikus are those 5-7-5 syllable poems that you wrote in school. (Notice the use of second person in the previous sentence; I do not recall ever writing a Haiku for any assignment at any school.) You can now write them for money! If your Haiku wins our weekly contest, Prinsiana will send you $.17 to be used however you wish -- for example, a down payment on a bag of Ruffles.

Contest twenty-one: due April 4th, noon EST.
Write a haiku about a pastel color.

Previous winners and entrants

Contest twenty (February 28th, 2002): Two-digit number
winner to be announced never. or maybe just a really long time from now.

Contest nineteen (February 28th, 2002): Misdemeanor
winner to be announced in an bit so long one can barely stand it.

Contest eighteen (February 14th, 2002): Toaster love
winner to be announced in a longer bit.

Contest seventeen (January 31st, 2002): Foreign language
winner to be announced in a bit.

Contest sixteen (January 17th, 2002): Three-word name
"Lee Harvey Oswald"
by Mom (a palindrome for moM)

Contest fifteen (January 3rd, 2002): "The First Noel" anagrams
"re ni f sol the t"
by thelma dawn esprit

Contest fourteen and a half (January 1st, 2002): Haiku of the year
"casually, inadvertently, bohemianly"
by hélène françoise lipogramme

Contests one through fourteen (through December 13th, 2001)

Send your haiku to Matthew Dale Prins at mdprins@yahoo.com or fill out this form that took me 55 seconds to create. Entries will be be reviewed by a four-judge panel, believe it or not.

Return, poetic one, to the warm, glowing, warming glow of Prinsiana.