Heart Haiku Contest!
Write a clever haiku about any matter of the heart and win one of our new Humongous Hearts! This cardiovascular muscle plushie is almost three times bigger than the original, so its got a grand capacity for love. In case you forgot, haikus are Japanese poems composed of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5,7,5 syllables). You've got only heart to gain, so may the best original haiku win -- enter in the comments section below! U.S. entries only, sorry! Be sure to include a valid email address so we can contact you (it will not be made public on the blog). Contest closes next Monday!
She walked out the door
Holding my heart in her hands
I must win this prize!
only two days old
beautiful hole in his heart
exploding with love
dedicated to our son henry, born with a ventricular septal defect. he’s now almost three years old and healthy after open-heart surgery to repair the defect :)
we heart guts :)
laying my head on
the echoing cavity,
life’s sound is a pulse
my heart is huge, yo!
plenty of room for you too.
supersize my heart!
Here’s two entries from over at the Tokyobunnie blog! <3
2 comments:
Alan Summers said…
those fourteen summers all that remains is the glue of a paper heart all my very best Alan Alan’s blog: http://area17.blogspot.com/ 9/15/2010April said…
since my children’s births parts of me have expanded my heart was the firstLeave a comment