Haiku Matching Contest - Valentine's Day

(select your favorite for each pair and write it in the box below or above the pairs)
(then select favorites of those pairs, etc... until one is the top pick)

Global Haiku Traditions Spring 2009

Valentine’s Day
small gift box
The Ring?

unsure of what to say
the radio saves me . . .
her favorite song

Valentine's day
leftover chocolates
he left on the doorstep

Valentine’s Day
letting him eat
the dark chocolates

 

 

 

 

top quarter champion

 

 

top half champion

 

bottom quarter champion

 

 

 

 

first formal
the dance floor
vacant

Valentine’s ball
waiting on the side
to be asked

dancing with you
but then
I wake up

his eyes on my
hips, I
sway a little more

 

top half champion

 

 

champion

 

bottom half champion

 

(Self Centered)
and lack of Respect…
My MoM says I’m a catch

cherry-scented envelope
Will you be my Valentine?
—mother

dead roses
seem wrong
yet so right

I’ve always.
hated.
roses.

 

 

 

 

top quarter champion

 

 

bottom half champion

 

bottom quarter champion

 

 

 

 

fresh crush
first impression
bullshit

brick by brick
she rebuilds the wall
around her heart

break-up
on Valentine’s
melted chocolate

Valentine's Day
again
I hate it

© 2009, Randy Brooks • Millikin University
All rights returned to authors upon publication.