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We Want Your Food Haiku!
The Olympics may be over (and the Summer Food Fights, too) but that somehow our competitive urges still haven't ebbed away. That's why we're announcing the Feed52 Haiku Contest.
With a deadline of this Thursday, August 16 at midnight, we want to see your best food-related haiku, posted in the comments below. (The winner will receive nothing less than eternal glory -- sadly, no Le Creuset.)
For those of you who need a refresher -- here is a haiku written by yours truly, as inspired by the above photo:
Who hasn't spent time
brushing their cutting board of
cauliflower bits?
Here's another:
Chopping onions: root
on one end, hairy on the
other, tears inside.
It's simple: haiku do not rhyme, they don't concern themselves with traditional narrative, and they follow a three-line structure of 5, then 7, then 5 syllables. They can be quietly funny, or just suddenly beautiful, and they're short enough that you could certainly write one on your lunch break.
Happily, you have a wide variety of subject matter: food in any form is fair game. And there's no limit on poems you can submit! Give us your best shot.
Start counting those syllables -- may the best haiku win!
Comments (59)
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over 5 years ago LaineyStarr
the juiciness flows
it slowly drips down my chin
i love pineapples
over 5 years ago LaineyStarr
I season to taste
Bring to him on a big plate
Sit back as he smiles
over 5 years ago LaineyStarr
Taking a big bite
Melting just like cotton candy
Oh wait, it is that
over 5 years ago EmilyC
Confronting my son,
A pile of thin, salty ham.
He grins: prosciutto!
over 5 years ago DirectHeat
Into the wine, you!
Tough, fatty, stubborn, cheap roast.
Braised, tender goodness.
over 5 years ago DirectHeat
Watermelon seeds
Spit from a sticky red smile
Mighty black missiles
over 5 years ago DirectHeat
Water, hops and malt --
Throw open the abbey window;
Hark, fermentation!
over 5 years ago MissGinsu
True love, the ripe peach,
Wraps the cool nights of summer
In a fuzzy coat
over 5 years ago em-i-lis
Emily is a trusted source on General Cooking.
I am so tired, but
dinner calls, make me now and
savor, nourish, love.
over 5 years ago fiveandspice
Emily is a trusted source on Scandinavian Cuisine.
The only way to
learn to cook is by messing
up a lot of meals.
over 5 years ago Loves Food Loves to Eat
Mixer, whisk….or jar?
A labor of love that makes
stiff whipped cream mountains.
over 5 years ago Loves Food Loves to Eat
Amanda’s Kids’ lunch:
Inspiring little meals.
Please pack me one, too.
over 5 years ago Loves Food Loves to Eat
He slices, he rolls.
Tuna, uni…geoduck?
Shiro: sushi god.
over 5 years ago Eliz.
Light fills stone vaults at
Midnight as tendrils rise green
Behind garden walls.
over 5 years ago Eliz.
Charlotte, tears fell when
You died; grown up, I wrap melon
In prosciutto.
over 5 years ago Katey501
A food of the gods
Figs, luscious, sensual, sweet
My now obsession
over 5 years ago HobbsHouse
Hard times and work slow
As she put on the table, bread
It was the silver lining
over 5 years ago Eliz.
Mosquito draws blood
For her eggs as I stand be-
Fore the stove, scrambling.
over 5 years ago Eliz.
Partially hydro-
Genated fat, high fructose
Corn syrup miss you.
over 5 years ago vrunka
Despised by many
Belov'd by a select few
Anchovy, you're mine.
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