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!

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31 comments


  • Paul Mueller

    I long to tell you
    but I’m missing something, what?
    my esophagus


  • miss keri S

    organ made of blood

    elastic dreams and tissue

    not the Kleenex kind


  • Stephanie Shea

    Red, white, blue and green?
    circulating river stream
    Oxygenator!


  • Aero Tibesti

    Once so proud and strong
    now a dried accessory
    Lady Gaga’s wig


  • birdilicious

    each tremendous thump
    the joy of being alive
    with or without pain


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