Vocal Social Society's HONEY HAIKU Challenge WINNERS!
Our Queen Bee is Crowned.
This is quite an honour! I truly feel extraordinarily privileged to have been master of ceremonies for what started out as a simple, fun little Facebook group challenge. It is not in my nature to gush or be a luvvie, but in times like these, I feel I cannot hold back!
I am genuinely in awe of the quality of haiku that has been produced. I feel I need to put them in an anthology, make a chapbook, and/or get my Aunt to illustrate them as gifts for the authors... seriously... all these thoughts have passed through my head! I am that bowled over by the quality...
...and all in just a few days!!!!
What an inspiration these creators are!
Today, after a gorgeous week of spoon after spoon of delicious and tantalising poetry, our Haiku Honey challenge has ended. Votes have been counted, and we have our winners. It was such a tough competition to judge that four creators share third place.
Please show some serious love for...
Queen Bee and First Place Winner...
If you had never tasted a watermelon in your life, you would be compelled to try one. This is truly exceptional work that oozes melancholy and memory yet simultaneously rings with freshness.
Congratulations Teresa. Outstanding.
Second Place Winner
All I wanted to do after reading this was make a toastie! Words like nuzzled and searing hot brought the anticipation and process of making a toastie alive. Then, that last jaw-dropping word of onomatopoeia with the added exclamation. Brilliant. It truly leaves you hungry.
Third Place Winners
Congratulations to all the extremely deserving winners and to everyone who contributed to what was a sumptuous feast of Haiku.
Thank you, too, to everybody who took the time to vote. Superstars each and every one of you!
Peace and love, one and all.
CJ xxx
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All the stunning entries can be found here...
About the Creator
Caroline Jane
Warm-blooded vertebrate, domesticated with a preference for the wild. Howls at the moon and forages on the dark side of it. Laughs like a hyena. Fuelled by good times and fairy dust. Writes obsessively with no holes barred.
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Vocal Social Society's Haiku Honeys
Thank you. What a joy it has been to host the Haiku Honey? Challenge on behalf of the Vocal Social Society Facebook Group. I am genuinely awestruck by the quality, range, depth, and emotion that has poured in. The talent that lies behind these bite-sized poems is truly gargantuan and inspirational.
By Caroline Jane8 months ago in Poets
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I did not take part but read a few. Dana, Kristen, Cathy, Hannah were so good, I am going to read the others
Congratulations, all!
Congratulations to all the winners! I wanted to join this challenge but when I tried to reply to the post in the Facebook group I was unable to. I wonder if the time just ran out too quickly for me.
Wow! Thank you so very much! What a wonderful surprise! Grateful for this, and for your poetic description of my haiku! Thank you!! 💞💫🙏🏽🙌🏽💃🏻🥪
Wooohooooo congratulations everyone! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Oh thank you so much everyone who voted for my haiku and to Caroline for organising it all ❤️
Thank you so so much Caroline 🥰🕊️✨ This was such a fun challenge to write for and read the other entries! I really appreciate you organising it! 🕊️✨🤍
Congratulations to the winners!
Congratulations to all!!!
Congratulations everyone!
Thank you for all the hard work and planning that you put into this excellent challenge
And Caroline, congratulations to you also, for excellent master of ceremony execution.
Wonderful! This was a great challenge. Congrats to all the fabulous entrants and extra special juicy, toastie high fives to Teresa and Kristen.
Congratulations everyone, and well done to all the brilliant entries!
Hurray!!! Congrats to all the winners! Good times, indeed! 💖
Aw goregeously writen anouncement and congratulations to all of the deliciously creative creators! 🤍🤍🤍