Haiku Cointest

[+goosefraba1]

Hello Ladies and Gents!

 

The forums have been quite kind to me in te way of cointests. I figure that it is about time for me to give back a little. My cointest my rules

 

I want you to compose your best Haiku poem about geocoins or geocaching. If you do not know what a Haiku is here is a link.

 

One entry per user.

 

This cointest will be judged by my wife.

 

The winner will receive a coin of my choosing.

 

Cointest will end Saturday May 1st at 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time.

 

Here is my example (don't forget to title it ):

 

Title: Impatient Coiner

 

No coin in the box.

There are several en route.

Why aren't they here yet?

 

Good luck to everybody.... I will be checking.

 

~Goose~

[+SgtMikal]

Thanx for the cointest!

 

Title - My Best Days

 

Searching for caches

And finding beautiful coins

Can't get much better

[+Nikon-ing]

I love this! Thanks for the cointest

 

Title: Involuntary Reaction

 

A snake on the trail?

I cannot control my fear.

Now I've peed my pants.

 

[ATMouse]

Shiny in my hand

I hold you up to the light

and admire you.

 

I like haiku.

[+wolfslady]

I love haiku and look forward to reading them. I'll see if my muse will kick in to write one worthy of this cointest.

 

Do you want strictly the 5-7-5 style or is the English style with fewer than 17 syllables acceptable.

[+goosefraba1]

I love haiku and look forward to reading them. I'll see if my muse will kick in to write one worthy of this cointest.

 

Do you want strictly the 5-7-5 style or is the English style with fewer than 17 syllables acceptable.

 

I would prefer the 5-7-5 style... Just because I prefer to keep things simple. Sorry for not making a

note of that earlier because I was short on time.

[+CCWelch]

I will give it a try:

 

Oh my what is this?

A regular cache I spy

took nothing left coin

[+seekerfamily]

This sums up a lot of days caching. Would have fit well today, went to two caches during lunch, each had one coin listed and no coin in either cache.

 

Missing coins:

 

Coins listed in cache.

Find the cache. Oh no! No coin!

Another missing

[+Chrysalides]

Another cointest.

Why do I even bother?

Buying's easier.

 

[+opalsns]

Many Geocoins.

We hoped they would travel far.

It seems they will not.

 

Thanx,

Opalsns

[Maine Family]

The caches I find

Brings me to the best places

Not found on a map

 

Thanks for the cointest.

[+GATOULIS]

I am not good in Haiku poems and I find it difficult with the syllables just because we have a different way to seperate them! So I hope for your understanding!

 

Title: love of Geocaching

 

A treasure hunt game

some happy moments in our life

Fun, love and friendship

 

Caches with geocoins

places to see and take photos

Shiny metal travellers

 

logbook for cache diary

Adventures and stories in pages

Ink is our speaker

 

Forums with friends

Fun love and carring inside

Soulmates from abroad

 

Cointests to play

Spreading some smiles to all

pretty coins as price

 

Mystery coiners too

generous giving persons

Kind angel souls

 

A game for all

no matter the age you have

Makes you child again!

 

A GPS in the hand

some good shoes to wear

A new way to live!

 

I do not know if I blow it with the syllables! I hope my mistakes are limited!

 

I think you can make a big haiku like that... right?

[+drneal]

Not My forte, but I'll try for goosefraba1!

 

 

No new coins to post

"What's In Your Mailbox Today"

Not very Often .

 

ILYK

[Odyssey Voyager]

"The Precious" by Odyssey Voyager

 

 

fine luster gleams bright

 

Precious speaks to inner eye

 

my Heart skips a beat

[+pamlicojack]

Title: A sad fact about a poor geocacher

 

I have never owned

 

A Geocoin of my own

 

Would someone donate?

Edited April 23, 2010 by pamlicojack

[+isjustus4]

title: Hurry up, GO!

 

Cache in a hurry

The phone beeps with an email

My first First to Find

 

And, it rings true, with my night tonight. I got my first FTF. Phone beeped at me, I looked at my wife, and said "gotta go" as it was 5.5mi away. It was a 2 part multi at dusk. I'm still stoked!!

[+goosefraba1]

Great posts everybody! I love reading all of the entries. I bet you guys didn't know that you were poets Remember to get your post in by the end of May Day. My wife has graduation on May 1st... So I am letting her judge the next morning. Night ya'll.

[+Chrysalides]

Next time have a limerick cointest

[+labrat_wr]

Haiku, how fun!!

 

The Journey

 

melted metals glow

cool in spectacular forms

passing cache to cache

 

 

thanks for the cointest and good luck everyone!

[+Mar-elendili]

I'll give it a try!

 

Geocoins

 

Tiny, round or shaped

Bright and shimmering colours--

Blooming springflowers

[+opalsns]

I am not good in Haiku poems and I find it difficult with the syllables just because we have a different way to seperate them! So I hope for your understanding!

 

Title: love of Geocaching

 

A treasure hunt game

some happy moments in our life

Fun, love and friendship

 

Caches with geocoins

places to see and take photos

Shiny metal travellers

 

logbook for cache diary

Adventures and stories in pages

Ink is our speaker

 

Forums with friends

Fun love and carring inside

Soulmates from abroad

 

Cointests to play

Spreading some smiles to all

pretty coins as price

 

Mystery coiners too

generous giving persons

Kind angel souls

 

A game for all

no matter the age you have

Makes you child again!

 

A GPS in the hand

some good shoes to wear

A new way to live!

 

I do not know if I blow it with the syllables! I hope my mistakes are limited!

 

I think you can make a big haiku like that... right?

 

 

GATOULIS,

A Haiku is a 3 LINE POEM

not a 24 line poem !!

[+goosefraba1]

Sorry I meant to make a note of that last night... Gatoulis always puts forth the ultimate amount of effort, even when something simple would suffice. Gatoulis, you can try again if you would like.

 

To make myself more clear, I am looking for a 3 line poem where the first line totals 5 sylables, the second line totals 7 sylables, and the 3rd line totals 5 sylables. This should be headed using a title. I understand that foreign tongues have different pronunciations of words... So just do your best. We will be able to understand. I promise. Thanks, goose.

[+sterni2009]

The FTF-prize

 

There is a new cache

An unactivated coin!!!

Must be FTF!

 

Thanks for that fun cointest

Edited April 23, 2010 by sterni2009

[+GATOULIS]

Oh! so you can not make a big hiku? I mean... to make a poem like that but each 3 lines to be seperated? Oh! Huh! all these are too Japanese for me! I am kiding!

 

to tell you the truth.. I have a huge problem wit the syllables! I had the same in other haiku cointests!

 

In greece we probably seperate the syllables completely different!

For example I will take some of the cacher names here, to see...

 

GATOULIS : in greek way it is 3 syllables!!

Seekerfamily: In greek way it is 5 syllables!!!

Chrysalides: in greek way it is 4 syllables!

So.... ???

 

I hope this one will be ok! I will use the last part of my previous poem!

 

Title: Geocaching....

 

A GPS in the hand

some good shoes to wear

A new way to live!

[+sterni2009]

Oh! so you can not make a big hiku? I mean... to make a poem like that but each 3 lines to be seperated? Oh! Huh! all these are too Japanese for me! I am kiding!

 

to tell you the truth.. I have a huge problem wit the syllables! I had the same in other haiku cointests!

 

In greece we probably seperate the syllables completely different!

For example I will take some of the cacher names here, to see...

 

GATOULIS : in greek way it is 3 syllables!!

Seekerfamily: In greek way it is 5 syllables!!!

Chrysalides: in greek way it is 4 syllables!

So.... ???

 

I hope this one will be ok! I will use the last part of my previous poem!

 

Title: Geocaching....

 

A GPS in the hand

some good shoes to wear

A new way to live!

 

Gatoulis... you are not serious, are you????

 

The words you wrote have the same number of syllables in English, German, Greek... Syllables!!! No matter what is your origin language, syllables are the same!!! Ok, like my first teacher many many years ago explainerd when I was six years old and new to school: Clap your hands while saying the word, the word has as many syllables as you clap.

[+GATOULIS]

Ok.. probably the names I choosed were not the best or they have the syllables as all the other but I do not think it is the same in greek!

 

For example... your Haiku...

 

If I count the sylables in the Greek way you have: 7-8-3!!! (I count FTF as one but I do not know if this can be done! Otherwise it is 3 (first to find) so it goes up to 7-8-6)!!

 

in greek...... forget it!

It goes to 10-11-11!!!

 

In other Haiku cointest, I was trying again but I had less syllables in one line, more in other...

Edited April 23, 2010 by GATOULIS

[+GATOULIS]

an other example is the word International!

 

I found that in english this word has 5 syllables...

 

in Greek I think it has 6 syllables, and the greek translation of the word... only 3! see the mess now?

[+Team CeDo]

Thank you for the cointest.

 

Anticipation

 

The cache grows closer

It is just over that hill

Always tread lightly

[+Chrysalides]

an other example is the word International!

 

I found that in english this word has 5 syllables...

 

in Greek I think it has 6 syllables, and the greek translation of the word... only 3! see the mess now?

If your haiku is in English, then count the syllables in English. Japanese Haikus translated into English may not have the 5-7-5 structure.

 

Take this example from Wikipedia:

 

古池や　蛙飛込む　水の音

 

furuike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto

 

This separates into on as:

 

fu-ru-i-ke ya (5)

ka-wa-zu to-bi-ko-mu (7)

mi-zu no o-to (5)

 

Translated:

 

old pond . . .

a frog leaps in

water’s sound

 

You should write a haiku in Greek (and provide the translation since it'll be, well, Greek to me ).

Edited April 23, 2010 by Chrysalides

[+CanadaKate]

Title: Speedy Dog

 

Geo-dog runs fast

Cachers are slow to follow

Smudge is first to find

 

Thanks for encouraging me to stretch my brain and create a haiku that stars our geo-dog, Smudge. I've enjoyed reading the haiku posted already in the thread.

[+goosefraba1]

No new poems for a couple days... bumpin' this to the top

[+catsnfish]

E-zine

 

tell me a story

caching adventures you've had

all share in the fun

[tommytrojan360]

Summer Caching

 

Oh, Summer Caching

No school, plenty of caches

Caching till it's night

[+CanadaKate]

From 9 year old

E of Team_BG:

 

Found it!

 

Looking hard for it ...

Found it! One more cache spotted.

Heading home tired.

[Odyssey Voyager]

From 9 year old

E of Team_BG:

 

Found it!

 

Looking hard for it ...

Found it! One more cache spotted.

Heading home tired.

that Haiku is cute! in most places where english is spoken, the word "tired" is 2 syllables...yet in Texas and New Mexico the southern twang makes the word one long syllable! as in: "i sure is dawwwwwwg tiiiiiiir'd". hey! thats 5 syllables too!

Edited April 26, 2010 by Odyssey Voyager

[+goosefraba1]

Some pretty impressive posts so far y'all... keep it up

[+wolfslady]

This is really hard. I wanted to write one for this and I messed up. I can't decide which one to enter. LOL I am really enjoying reading these. Maybe we can keep this going after the cointest.

[+goosefraba1]

only 2.5 days left... I'm assuming that almost everybody's haikus are posted, but I just figured that I would throw out the warning. @Wolfslady, we can continue to write these for fun, i think, as long as the poems are about geocoins (somebody correct me if I am wrong). Thanks, Goose

[+Eartha]

When the cointest is over, the thread is closed. There is already a Haiku thread in the OT forums you can use.

[+Nikon-ing]

as long as the poems are about geocoins (somebody correct me if I am wrong)

 

The OP said:

 

I want you to compose your best Haiku poem about geocoins or geocaching.

 

...so I would say those are the only 2 subjects allowed?

 

Oops...you ARE the OP! So I'll ask...both subjects are allowed, correct?

Edited April 29, 2010 by Nikon-ing

[+goosefraba1]

Correct... For the cointest both geocoins and geocaching are the subjects. If you would like to post poems after the cointest, then follow Eartha's coordinates to the other topic. Thanks, goose

[+goosefraba1]

Last days for postage.

[+wolfslady]

mountain top splendor

hidden treasure beckons me

go geocaching

[+DaFunkyFrogs]

Title: Spring Caching

Caching in the spring

Beauty is everywhere

Many lovely views...

 

Thanks for the cointest...

[+goosefraba1]

The boss has chosen. There were many great poems, but only one was chosen..... *cue the snare drum roll please*

 

wait for it....

 

 

 

 

wait for it...

 

 

 

getting closer...

 

 

 

Nikon-ing, you have been chosen. My wife loved your poem, as she is not the biggest fan of snakes. The haiku made us both laugh Anywho, pm me your mailing address and we will get things squared away.

 

Thanks everyone for participating! We will have another cointest sometime this month. It will be completely different

[+catsnfish]

I love this! Thanks for the cointest

 

Title: Involuntary Reaction

 

A snake on the trail?

I cannot control my fear.

Now I've peed my pants.

 

 

Congratulations to Nikon-ing!! It was a great entry!

[+Nikon-ing]

Nikon-ing, you have been chosen. My wife loved your poem, as she is not the biggest fan of snakes. The haiku made us both laugh

 

OMG you've made my nice day absolutely AWESOME!! I never win anything (just one of those people, I guess) but that's ok. It's fun to play. Now I know it's even funner to win!!!

 

Thanks so much for this cointest. I loved reading everyone's haikus. We have some very talented people here. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[+DaFunkyFrogs]

congrats to the winner & thanks for the cointest... .

[+Where'sMyMarbles]

YAY Nikon-ing!!!!

I'm so proud of you!!! Haha!!

[Maine Family]

Congratulations Nikon-ing.