Ito-en, makers of green tea, are having an English haiku contest. Grand prize is $5000 and some free products. The haiku can be about whatever you want.

All applications must be postmarked from Monday November 3, 2008 to Saturday February 28, 2009.

https://www.itoen.co.jp/new-haiku/hform_e.cgi

Oh yeah and:

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"One contestant may submit up to six poems by postcard, A4-sized fax, or the Internet. Application must include the poems and the name of the entry division. Applicants also must include their name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, age, and any Haiku group or club of which they are a member. Students are also asked to include their school names."

[Edited on November 12, 2008 at 3:01 AM. Reason : .]

11/12/2008 3:01:09 AM

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11/12/2008 3:03:11 AM

Gonads change color
Some time after castration
Ito-en green tea!

[Edited on November 12, 2008 at 3:04 AM. Reason : lol oops]

11/12/2008 3:03:26 AM

i've retired from poetritution after being swindeled by poetry.com

they promised 10,000 pay off, they even published your poems, i though it was cause they were good but i soon found out they published it in this gigantor book of about 100,000 poems of other duped people from the site and they sold it back to us for $99

a big pile of garbage poems, since them i've found it hard to trust the internets

11/12/2008 3:07:42 AM

Ha, my haiku for my creative writing class just one me an extra credit point

can't wait to finish the poetry unit, dear lord.

11/12/2008 3:11:04 AM

I could win it, but I'll let someone else. I'm just nice like that

11/12/2008 3:11:40 AM

^^^ lol are you serious? That's pretty lame on their part.

11/12/2008 9:02:43 AM

I LIKE COLOR GREEN
WHICH IS WHY I MUST DEMAND
GIVE ME MY FIVE G'S

11/12/2008 9:13:30 AM

i cant stand poetry

11/12/2008 9:35:12 AM

^ The more important factor is can you stand winning $5000?

11/12/2008 9:36:10 AM

damn who's still got a fax machine these days

11/12/2008 9:38:02 AM

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"i cant stand poetry"

yeah, reading is hard

11/12/2008 9:43:40 AM

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"^^^ lol are you serious? That's pretty lame on their part."

i wish i were joking

11/12/2008 11:05:54 AM

MY NAME'S SAABTURBO
DON'T BE SUCH A METRO, SON
CHECK OUT MY PICS, SON

11/12/2008 11:10:23 AM

I, too, "won" a contest on poetry.com

11/12/2008 11:59:22 AM

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"The cracking of my voice and the precipitation on my palms betray the mask of my maturity. Her careless smiles and unnoticed arm brushes return me to eight where the playground makes her my secretly desired enemy. Syncopated giggles and glances at her feet relieve me of my armor in her presence. Not a knight, nor a squire, but a page. A page in a book covered in dust and age waiting to be read. He that would look to the sky, gazing at a souring eagle know only a beggar's sum of my envy and admiration. Adolescent rooms of pictures and posters can't presume to know the depth of my adoration, my inexplicable infatuation. She is my muse and motivation, a barometer of success on which I want to depend. All here life may not be golden, but its luster would deceive the eyes of the keenest jeweler. She shines...and I'm the better man for being blinded by her."

11/12/2008 12:01:43 PM

^^, ^^^^ How did the manage to get away with that? I guess it was some fine print in the contest?

11/15/2008 11:39:20 PM