3-1-2001 Winner

casually, inadvertently, bohemianly

ruled by vineyard veins,
my cadaver and i dance
that curvy vinyl.

hélène françoise lipogramme


Honorable Mention

parenthetically

i love you. (i think.
i’m still deciding [slowly
(too slow [I suspect])].)

thelma dawn esprit

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supercalifragelisticexpialedociously

Ms. Poppins was fun
She'd like to be my nanny
but I'm too old now

Patty T


Other Notable Haikus

Obsessively

Time for Paul Harvey.
My day is incomplete if
I miss one minute.

melvan

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Cloudily

Birds frown. Monkeys cry.
"Where is the luminous sky?"
Ants and aardvarks cry.

Dopey McWilliams

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Randomly
click here to find (what?)
the browser opens a new
window I don't want

PattyT

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Sadly

My haikus do not
Win Matt's contests -- this makes me
quite very blue.

Alex Klages

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Neighbourly

"Neighbour Rosicky
had a bad heart. Ha. Ha. Ha."
Yeah. Yeah. We get it.

Pam R. Whittens

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naughtily

Abe was sitting there
fishing through the door and stuff
with his beard shaved off

PattyT

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Highly
Walls trickle stucco.
Basement pipes seep yellow ooze.
It entrances me.

Dopey McWilliams

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intimiDATINGly (for Julie and Dave)
He said not a word
he was intimidated
much by her beau-tay

PattyT

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Dynamicly
Action describes you.
Adverbly is your nature.
I watch and I gape.

Steve Griffin

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Sexily

He takes off his shirt,
exposing a beer belly
with stretch marks and moles.

Dopey McWilliams

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Wastefully

she sat at her desk
making up stupid haiku(s)
and wasting her time

PattyT

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Messily

You can take just a-
bout any seventeen syl-
ables: a haiku!

Pam R. Whittens