The Poetry Contest This Week For My Writers Group

The selection of last weeks winners for the rhyming contest was tough. We did come to a decision and even had some honorable mentions, first it was everyone and then we selected a few that got favorites votes.

This week the contest is a Crab Canon or a Haiku. I always encourage writers to try the selected contest choices, but they don't have to. I do my best to write one of each, or at least one of them each day.

I struggle with getting the crab canon right, so I thought this extra practice may come up with one I feel is a crab canon. Even if it is someone else's, a few have come up with different variations which is great. A haiku, crab canon for example! I love it.

Here are a few of mine and a couple of the variations:

Next week's contest, beginning on February 15, 2025 is:

A Crab Canon. The example is below.

and a Haiku, 5-7-5 syllables, usually written about love or nature. Doesn't need to rhyme.

ie:

Loving my hubby

Is easy to do for me

he's my soulmatey

And:

Then I added: Feel free to enter what you'd like and write the poems you want.

Here are a few that came in yesterday and today, with three days left:

Lake Havasu, by Kathy Hron

Oh Lake Havasu

With your Paul Newman eyes, blue

Forever love you

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Grand Canyon Haiku 2-15-2025 - Jenny Wettersten

North Rim Park ranger

First aid, guidance, work hard, kind

Yesterday pink slip

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The Highway 2 Osprey Nest [Now Gone]

Subtitle: My First Crab Canon - Jenny Wettersten

I watch ospreys

Nesting

Over the years

I grieve my friend's passing

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I grieve my friend's passing

Over the years

Nesting

I watch ospreys

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What, no joke, by Denise Lindquist

This is not a joke!

Writing this forms for slowpokes

Crab canons can poke!

🦀🦀🦀🦀

Crab canons can poke

writing this forms for slowpokes

This is not a joke?

🦀🦀🦀🦀

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Love Haiku just for you by Denise Lindquist

Look into my eyes

Loving is easy to do

Liking can be tough

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A haiku, crab canon: Life in the Moment, by Carol Verant Arola

Live in the moment

Don’t worry about the past

Time passes too fast

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What happens - happens

Don’t let life get in your way

Enjoy this great day

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Enjoy this great day

Don’t let life get in your way

What happens - happens

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Time passes too fast

Don’t worry about the past

Live in the moment

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