2-22-2001 Winner

Omelet

Baby chicks at rest.
Eggs pilfered from Mother's nest.
And it's so yummy!

Dopey McWilliams


Honorable Mention

arsenic

just tried it. not bad.
a trace of lemon, perhaps,
and just a hint of.

thelma dawn esprit

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peanut butter and jelly

white bread triangles
and their intestines clutch to
my small childhood heart.

thelma dawn esprit


Other Notable Haikus

Spam

Splat. Splut. Splat. Splut. Splat.
The sound that Spam makes when I
Throw it on the wall.

Alex Klages

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Eggs Benedict

Benedict was starved.
He made an egg dish of sorts.
Next: treason charges.

Dopey McWilliams

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dr. pepper

they are charlatans:
forging your component list.
prune juice is absent.

thelma dawn esprit

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Near Beer

The same worn-sock taste.
None of that pesky liquor.
The worst of both worlds.

Pam R. Whittens

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Birthday Cake

Birthday cake is good.
I like to eat it on this
Day -- twenty-one Feb.

Alex Klages

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Pizza
I love pizza yes
I do I love pizza how
about you James Joyce

Dopey McWilliams

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Food
I don’t like food much.
It doesn’t taste good to me.
That’s why I’m hungry.

Pam R. Whittens

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Hotdish

Elbow macaroni
and hamburger, with a can
of cream of mushroom.

melvan

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Ham and Spam

An analogy:
Virginia ham is to Spam
as fork is to spork.

Pam R. Whittens

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coffee on a hot summer's day

modems off. tan on.
ashen cement chars feet, eyes.
hasty, she tastes them.

hélène françoise lipogramme