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- NZ POST POETRY AWARDS 2009
Aspiring young poets and lyric writers should put pen to paper for this year’s New Zealand Post National Schools Poetry Awards!
You could win a weekend for two to the New Zealand Post Writers and Readers Week 2010, $500 cash or even have your poem made into a song by Opshop's Jason Kerrison!
Entries close 15 June 2009
Enter online at nzpost.co.nz/poetryawards
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BEBO YOUR HAIKU
Tearaway and LOOP are keen to see students flex their poetry muscle this month and warm up for the New Zealand Post National Schools Poetry Awards 2009.
We're asking students to submit a three line haiku poem on one of three themes:
- an interesting person
- the beach
- a place in your house
A WHAT-U?
Haiku is a form a Japanese poetry consisting of 17 syllables in three lines. The first and third lines contain five syllables, and the second line contains seven syllables. Here's an example:
Balmy wind drifts by
Evening sun kissing the sea
Footprints in the sand
Keep it simple! Haiku poems are best kept as a snippet of your creativity and daily observations.
PRIZES!
Five prizepacks to be won, each containing:
- 1x copy of OpShop's latest album 'Secondhand planet' signed by Jason Kerrison
- 1x Huffer clothing pack (hoodie and tee!)
- 1x slab of Red Bull
HOW TO ENTER:
All you have to do is become our BEBO friend and write your haiku in the comments section!
Don't forget to tell us your school, what year year you are and which theme your haiku poem relates to.
So get creative and submit your haiku by May 18th to be in the draw to win!
!! Note that the competition is extended for another 3 weeks till May 18th !!
1 Comment 70 weeks
Only the waves are heard
The air, stagnant and empty
Winter has arrived
Theme: The beach
School: Wellington College
Year: 12
Haiku:
Refuge of my youth
Clandestine meetings aloft
Exposed in winter
Theme: A place in your house (our tree-house; my source of childhood happiness).
School: Sacred Heart Girls’ College, New Plymouth
Year: 12
hmm,,i hope this fits the theme
Theme:interesting person
School: forest view high school
Year: 11
wings of her eyelids
noiselessly dicing the air
my dearest mother
Hi everyone!
Really cool to read your amazing Haiku's - great work!
Since the competion had a late start, we've decided to extend it with another week. It's now running till May 8th, so submit your Haiku this week and you could be a very lucky winner!!
Lots of love,
LOOP
Haiku:
Black Sand At My Feet
Glistening Waves Crashing Down
Sun Sets And Forms Night
Theme- The Beach
School- Opunake High School
Year- 13
Haiku:
A sense of humour,
Sweeping through the wave of crowd
Lives the mighty clown
Theme: An interesting person (A clown- I chose to write about a clown because I personally like to be entertained, which is after all the most essential feeling that we can express)
School: Takapuna Normal Intermediate
Year: 8
Haiku:
A faceless mimic
Hiding beneath bright light, my
Most intimate follower.
Theme: An interesting person (A shadow- I wanted personify a shadow, something everyone is fortunate enough to possess. It trails after us and is an essential part of self expression because everyone is interesting from the different shadows they possess)
School: Takapuna Grammar School
Year: 10
oopsiess i made a mistake. heres the new 1
Running on the sand
Leaving my life behind me
Watching the waves crash
The other Haiku had the wrong order of syllables
Theme - the beach
school- southland girls high school
year- 10
Thanks for adding me! I was waiting for ages!
Heres my poem
Running on the sand
Leaving life behind
It’s a place I be myself
Theme- The Beach
School-Southland Girls High School
Year- 10
Thanks
Haiku:
Crinkled skin like air
Caressing small hands of mine
One day similar.
Theme: An interesting person (Grandmother).
School: Rangitikei College
Year: 14
haiku:
The blue sea glistened
As the sun set above me
As shells come ashore.
theme- beach
school- manurewa highschool
year- 10
Hey Everyone, we're underway.. 13 friends now-- Whoop!
2 weeks left to submit your Haiku.. Get into it!
Don't forget that entries close for the NZ Post National Schools Poetry Awards on 15th of June and you could be hanging out with Jason Kerrison in the studio turning your poem into a song.. FUN!
Love, Loop.