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The Squidoo Haiku Game!

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Welcome

Welcome to the first and only squidoo haiku game! This is a game where you can show off your haiku skills, vote on other haikus, work together as a community to create a complex and enticing story from haikus, and maybe even get some backlinks!

How does this game work?

This game is very simple, but as time goes it will become more and more engaging.

To begin this game, I will post a single haiku. Below that haiku will be a guestbook, where you can submit your haiku. However, there is a twist. This is a story, and all the members of squidoo are building it. So, you must take the last line of the person below you's haiku in the guestbook, and make it into the first line of yours. Make sense? Now get to work :).

What is a haiku?

A haiku is a quick and fun poem that doesn't take long to make. It consists of three lines, each with a specific syllable requirement.

The first line must have 5 syllables
The second line must have 7 syllables
The third line must have 5 syllables

Current Haiku Chain

Footsteps all around
Heart beating fast, no way out
Can't find the exit

Can't find the exit
I'm lost, but even worse is
That I'm losing them

That I'm losing them
Dreams my heart so longs to hold
Memories of you

Memories of you
Take my mind to ocean shores
Buried treasures found

Buried treasures found
Like the love we once treasured
But now it is gone

But now it is gone
Cast to the seas, overcome by emotion
My heart fills with sadness

My heart fills with sadness
Darkness encroaches the moon
No light shines for me

No light shines for me
Until you return once more
Give me the charge card

Give me the charge card.
Sweet eBay oblivion.
I'll think tomorrow.

I'll think tomorrow
Let the games begin today
Now the trees I see

Now the trees I see
Burnt black by a flaming torch
The Sun as day ends

Submit your haiku!

Only post haikus here!

All haikus will be added to the chain. It might take some time, so please be patient ^^.

Color will be added occasionally when time permits me to do that, so don't be hurt if your submission is plain. Hopefully I'll be able to get them all in color sooner or later.

When making your haiku, look at the last line of the haiku of the person below you. That line will be the start of your new haiku.

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brianmurphy Dec 7, 2011 @ 1:23 pm | delete

dew drops under chin
had sweat all over my skin
why it's happenin'

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777Skat Nov 18, 2011 @ 11:18 pm | delete

~ Sweat Garden~
drench of human lawn
leotard planting between
dew drops under chin

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smithlights Oct 11, 2011 @ 8:47 pm | delete

Wait a sec! Haiku!
I think I like doing this
Though not quite at first

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Chris-H Jul 6, 2011 @ 5:20 am | delete

I look at this lens...
Hmmm, not sure what I should write...
Wait a sec! Haiku!

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reflekshins Jul 1, 2009 @ 12:53 am | delete

that i'm losing you
to this syllabic format
five seven five stinks

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Scholara Nov 10, 2008 @ 3:17 am | in reply to RufusQuail | delete

Now the trees I see

Burnt black by a flaming torch

The Sun as day ends

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Aug 15, 2008 @ 11:30 am | delete

I'll think tomorrow
Let the games begin today
Now the trees I see

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Ener-G Jul 18, 2008 @ 11:01 pm | delete

Give me the charge card.
Sweet eBay oblivion.
I'll think tomorrow.

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beeobrien May 16, 2008 @ 1:59 pm | delete

No light shines for me
Until you return once more
Give me the charge card

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alienflower May 12, 2008 @ 3:13 am | delete

My heart fills with sadness
Darkness encroaches the moon
No light shines for me
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If you have a lens on haikus, poetry, or writing, post it here!

Sadly, I don't think I will be able to keep up with haiku-er of the week, so I added this to make up for it. Sorry!