Haiku Challenge Result

 

Yesterday's Haiku Challenge met with spirited participation and good results, seeing a number of excellent offerings in this perennially popular verse form. Ed's submission was most terse, a simple, unadorned emoji:

Yes, sometimes a picture's worth a thousand words. That said, Red's woodsman sent in not one but two excellent haikus. Here, have a look:

Obama Biden

note the master and puppet.

Obama Harris?

And again:

Wolves prey on the weak

The generous are naive

We need more woodsmen.

Wow, what can we say. Keep it coming, woodsman, simply outstanding. Wild wasn't short off the mark either:

Arrests they promised.

Impatient Yoda grows, hmmm?

Well? Waiting we are.

Yes, we are. Beauty, you see, meets truth. And then there's LL, who sums the whole thing up in an act of poetic Zen. Behold:

Concentrated mist

clear jewel on a leafpoint

drip, the river begins.

Beautiful, and keen-eyed readers will note LL's riff on my initial, let's get the haikus rolling, offering, "mist." What is this, some kind of poetry jam? Apparently, and I'll throw one more into the ring:

Kier Starmer is sad

He lost at the ballot box

Teeth gnash in darkness.

Excellent haikus from everyone and congrats to woodsman for prolix versifying. But I have to say LL is the winner. Good work, Mr. Wolf, you win this initial and coveted LSP Haiku award.

Cheers,

LSP