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CONTEST: Mystery Haiku!
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Anikka
Babelfish
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Aug-18-2007 12:19
Do you write haiku?
Syllables begin with five,
Then seven, then five.
And now your challenge -
We all love a mystery!
Write one for us, please.
Of course, there are rules;
Mysteries must be Haiku.
Here's an example:
She died at midnight;
Sherry and strychnyne don't mix...
The butler did it.
One haiku is all
You have to tell your story.
(Much unlike these rules)
Spelling's important;
So is plot, so be careful!
And it MUST make sense.
You may want a prize.
In fact, there will be prizes!
...When I think of some.
August thirty one -
Last date of submissions, please,
Just before midnight;
Exact server time
Is eleven fifty nine.
Don't miss the deadline!
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Anikka
Babelfish
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Aug-20-2007 08:51
For clarification purposes, although Happy's epic ode is wonderful, your mystery should be one verse. The example I gave (probably hard to pick out) was:
She died at midnight;
Sherry and strychnyne don't mix...
The butler did it.
Yes, I know it's hard to tell a mystery in one Haiku. That's the challenge. :-)
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Arabella Parker
Well-Connected
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Aug-20-2007 09:58
Birthdays were forgot
'twas the reason Jack was shot
Jas accused Mary
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Stooby
Well-Connected
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Aug-20-2007 12:18
Shame, I'd planned a long one and just ahd to work out how to get it fitting those verses.
Going to be tricky to make a 3 line mystery at all interesting!
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Sophie4
Gopher to the Sleuth Gods
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Aug-20-2007 12:32
Two laid down to sleep
Only one arose next morn
Cat, where is that mouse ?
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Paranoid_Android
Story Teller
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Aug-20-2007 18:13
sure it's been done... hmm to death
Another victim
falls to the ground. The wind laughs.
The death of a leaf.
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Paranoid_Android
Story Teller
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Aug-20-2007 18:44
Bricked in the chimney?
Well, he swore to keep her near!
Til death do us part.
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Stooby
Well-Connected
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Aug-20-2007 23:13
Mystery? Or Morbid?
The great Haiku debate roles on... I'll get my thinking hat on and see what I can come up with...
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Stooby
Well-Connected
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Aug-20-2007 23:20
Where are my keys now
Here one minute, gone the next
To find them I vow
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Sophie4
Gopher to the Sleuth Gods
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Aug-21-2007 05:15
I dedicate this poem to Stooby, not morbid and still a mystery to some:
Jelly donut, good
How did the jelly get in?
I don't really care
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SleuthTips.com
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Aug-21-2007 19:37
I see no seam. None.
How do they make the T-shirts?
The ones with no seam?
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