Well, after the day of voting, the people have spoken and Kristina is the winner. Her winning haiku:
Stay tuned because after tonight’s episode, we’ll do it all again.
Well, it’s Wednesday morning so that means it’s time to shut down the haiku contest for The Convention and select a winner. I’ve narrowed the contest down to five options. I wanted to get to three, but all of these were good. There were more too, but they didn’t quite fit the 5-7-5 rule.
I need your help deciding. Leave a comment on which one should win and why.
1) Jan is desperate
Married Josh is off-limits!
It’s lonely on top
2) Um Um Um Um Um
Um Um Um Um Um Um Um
Um Um Um Um Um
3) Michael parties with
Dwight. Alone, with no lights on.
Better than with Oscar.
4) Jam: Sweet like sugar
But Toby, Pam, Jim mashed up?
Ew, tastes like Toe-Jam!
5) Dwight’s little monkey
Took the slow train to Philly
Meet Tarzan’s Jane… Doe
Another episode has come and gone, so let’s recap it with Haikus. This week it’s the convention. (I know we didn’t select a winner from last week. Sorry. The days just went by so fast. We’ll do it this time.)
For those of you visiting for the first time, a Haiku is a “Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons.” So basically, you have to have three lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables and they don’t have to rhyme. Of course, instead of nature or season, we are going to write about that weeks episode. It can sum up the whole plot, or just one part that you liked. After a couple days, we’ll choose a winner.
Here’s my haiku for The Convention
You’re up…
Wow, it’s been a long time since we’ve had a new episode. But with that new episode comes the return of the haiku contest.
For those of you visiting for the first time, a Haiku is a “Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons.” So basically, you have to have three lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables and they don’t have to rhyme. Of course, instead of nature or season, we are going to write about that weeks episode. It can sum up the whole plot, or just one part that you liked. After a couple days, we’ll choose a winner.
I’ll go first:
Now it’s your turn. Let’s get the haikus rolling. (If you’ve never done one, let this bve your first time. I promise, no one will laugh unless it’s supposed to be funny.)
After a couple comments on yesterday’s webisode post, and then seeing a real episode last night on TV, I realized how much I miss the real Office episodes and how I’m ready to have them back again.
So, since we haven’t had a haiku contest (and I’ve had 5 emails in the last two weeks asking for another one), I thought this would be a great topic.
Write about how you miss the Office episodes, how the webisodes aren’t cutting it (no offense to the writers and actors), how it’s been since they stopped airing, what you think about reruns, whatever you want.
(For the new folks, a Haiku is a “Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons.” So basically, you have to have three lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables and they don’t have to rhyme. Of course, instead of nature or season, we are going to write about how we miss The Office and how we’re ready for it to come back.)
Let the poetic mourning begin.
This contest has been going on for a while so I thought it was time to tally up the votes and find ourself a winner. So, after counting your votes, the winner is…Brian! (No, not me, you know I wouldn’t pick myself.)
The winning haiku is:
I was going thru the comments on past posts and was gently reminded by “DwightK” that we have not voted on our last haiku contest. In fact, he reminded me in a haiku:
These Haikus – they’re done?
No one’s writing any more.
Do we pick winners?
So, with that gentle reminder, here are the three finalists:
1) Dwight has a farm house.
Teenagers use it for sex.
I hope he doesn’t.
2)Jim, who would you do?
Pam looks nervous and hopeful
Kevin? Nice save Jim!
3)Work sucks, boring life
But Thursdays make it awesome
Hmm…not a bad day.
4)September’s far off
Reruns won’t work much longer
“Office” withdrawal sucks
5)Transfer? To Stamford?
Connecticut has no Pam
Who would torture Dwight?
Whew, I thought my job was hard to narrow it down to 5…but your job is much harder. Which one do you like the best? Give us a number and tell us why.
Since we ran out of new episodes, I haven’t been running any haiku contests. I kind of missed the little poetic fellas so let’s start one now and see how good we all can be.
The challenge? Write a Haiku with “The Office” as a subject. You can take anything from any episode…or if you’re real good you can wrap it all up in one haiku.
Ready. Set. Go.
Wow, I think this was the most votes that we have ever had on the haiku contests. It must have been the high quality haikus.
The results are in and Diane (#4) was the winner
It must have been the “sweater boy.”
We, the Office watching audience, really liked the season finale. There were a ton of haikus for Casino Night. I have narrowed them down to four….now you get us to one.
1) Secret love no more.
Casino Night takes its toll;
Hearts and wallets strained.
2) My girlfriend cheated
She kissed her “friend” on the lips
My heart is broken
3) dwight sees coat rack shake;
tries to make bobble, wobble
he does not succeed
4) Pam is so stupid
These moments don’t happen twice
Kiss ME, sweater boy!