WINNER of the Weekly Terrible Poetry Contest

Chel Owens

Sorry to keep you all waiting. The winner of this week’s terribleness is Molly Stevens.

Ice Cream

by Molly Stevens

Tedious April
A blustery ice cream hops
at the perfect snow

With honorable mention to the prolific poeming of Doug. My favorite of his was:

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by Doug

Spring festival cry
Many at reflecting pond
See each other see

Congratulations, Molly! You are the most terrible poet of the week!

Poets this week, including those who referenced seasonal germs and sneezings, wrote some amusing poems. Haiku proved the best of most, however, in that almost all of the poems were too poetic. You’re too good, darn it!

-Not that Molly isn’t a wonderful poet. But she, along with two or three others, crafted a haiku of terrible proportions. I loved the nonsensical nature of hers. It pokes fun at typical spring haiku without smacking me over the head. It’s fun.

Besides being a tad too pretty, the rest of the poets weren’t half bad. Here they are:

In Your Face

by Dorinda Duclos

In your face I sneeze

Springtime, meant to spread disease

Human pestilence

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Vernal Haikuz

by Violet Lentz

Grace, Charm and Beauty
The three graces escape me
In mud covered boots

—–

To me, spring cleaning
Means finding out what’s taken
Root under the fridge.

—–

Giai’s hot flashes
Window panes on roller skates
Her prerogative.

—–

Shall I continue?
There are more where those came from.
I’m game if you are

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Ode(r) to Spring

by Trent P. McDonald

Gentle April rain
Dog fertilizing the lawn
From poo comes flowers

—–

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by Robbie Cheadle

Dark grey April sky
Shocking us with late snowfall
Yet they call it spring

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Odeums to Springums

by Peregrine Arc

The blossoms trail far
Do not tarry, dripping nose
For allergies wait.

—–

Springtime Haiku, version #1

by Härzenswort

Morning meets meadow
Gentle, glistening dewdrops
Fill wee buttercups

—–

Springtime Haiku, version #2

Morning meets meadow
Yellow, glistening dewdrops
Fill wee buttercups

—–

Springtime Haiku, version #3

Morning meets meadow
Creamy, glistening dewdrops
Fill wet buttercups

—–

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by Doug

Trial for heart attack
Collapsed Spring-man on marble
Rose crying on steps

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by Doug

Our exploding Spring
Couples in weeping willows
Release spirit ashes

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by Doug

By meowing lions
Lambs in meadow lake ripples
Spring sneezes deadly mocking

—–

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by Doug

Lunch time in the park
A man gushing blood on tree
Cops jumping Spring to catch him

—-

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by Doug

Probetag für die
kollabierender Mann trist
Frühling weint vorbei

Test day for the
collapsing man dreary
Spring is crying over

——

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by Doug

のテスト日
折りたたみ男
春が泣いています

No tesuto-bi
Oritatami otoko
Haru ga naite imasu

Test day of
Folding man
Spring is crying

—–

The Rose

by Bruce Goodman

Far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed that with the sun’s love
In the spring becomes a pumpkin.

—–

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by Bladud Fleas

Daylight saving time:
Getting out of bed later
Or too early, d’uh

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Sleeping Spring

by Anneberly Andrews

Oh the gentle breeze

And lovely blossoms of spring

Masked in cold degrees

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by Michael B. Fishman

Springtime is here and flow,
ers will soon be blooming – brrr –
winter’s on the way.

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Holy Toledo

by Ruth Scribbles

Holy toledo
Spring haiku sprang to my mind
“Whatever,” she said

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As always, thank you to everyone for the dubious poetry. Give yourselves a private congratulation for your terrible talent.

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Molly: D. Wallace Peach created this graphic that you can use (if you want) for a badge of honor as the winner:

30 thoughts on “WINNER of the Weekly Terrible Poetry Contest”

  7. Haha! I can’t believe I won. My poem was born from the agony and ecstasy of April in Maine. We’ve had two snowfalls in the first seven days of this month with more on the way Monday. So far my enemy, the local meteorologist, predicts below average temps for the next two weeks. On the other hand the Easter bunny reminds me of hopping and Dairy Queen just opened, thus the hopping ice cream! Combining these concepts made for a nonsensical and terrible spring haiku. Thank you, Chelsea!

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  8. Congratulations Molly! I see that you’re one of the few people who knows that our Summer is Australia’s winter and that kangaroos love to put ice cream in their pouches for their young ones.

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  11. What superbly terrible Haiku, and what a fitting way to pay tribute to humankind’s meanest form of poetry. I particularly like the dewdrop/buttercup trio. It reminds me of the days before I admitted to myself that I have little respect for this peculiarly snobbish form, when I tried writing a few; all that arranging and rearranging ten or twelve words. Ugh.

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