Perl Haiku Contest Winners Announced 154
prostoalex writes "The ActiveState Perl Haiku Poetry Contest has ended. The results are in and here's the page with all the entries." Here's the original announcement.
Only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer.
Re:Kinda lame... (Score:5, Informative)
haikus and spam (Score:3, Informative)
Haiku'da Been a Spam Filter [wired.com]
Terrible (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Kinda lame... (Score:5, Informative)
It's a common misconception that "haiku" means "5-7-5". This misconception is readily [wikipedia.org] cleared up [everything2.com] - see the second paragraph of the Wikipedia article in particular for a discussion, or the "How do you write a haiku?" part of the e2 writeup, which goes into detail in the distiction between Japanese haiku and English haiku and describes the innumerable subtle variations of the form.
That said, one of the best English haiku ever kind of abuses the system:
I told her and sheWas like, "oh, my god," and I
Was like, "oh, my god."