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Contest will close later today.
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Feel Wayfriend's hammer,
The contest will close later today,
ends unambergised.
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Don't take it personally :D It just struck me as I saw you "lay down the law" for the end of the contest :D
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Post by matrixman »

Like a rent Raver
No apotheosis for
a lame revenant


(in other words, I got nothin')


Oh yeah, this might be my favorite:

Hyperception's

Claws rend my back's flesh
Tendrils of pure brilliance: my
Excoriation

though I also really like Kaydene's

The unambergrised,
one-shoe'd wench starts to run, her
pumpkin black, rotting.

Not sure what's going on, but I like the imagery. :wink:
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Post by psytech »

Hope I'm not too late!

Turkey and dressing
Pumpkin pie indigestion
Ineluctable


I liked MM's "ineluctable" entry.
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matrixman wrote:
though I also really like Kaydene's

The unambergrised,
one-shoe'd wench starts to run, her
pumpkin black, rotting.

Not sure what's going on, but I like the imagery. :wink:
thanks! It's supposed to be referring to Cinderella. Or, rather, the aging of one Cinderella. I dunno that I was clear enough. lol
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In order of submission, not preference…

Kaydene’s Cinderella noire:
Kaydene wrote:The unambergrised,
one-shoe'd wench starts to run, her
pumpkin black, rotting.
Ali’s continuation of the performance review meme from last contest:
aliantha wrote: Let us hope that your
next review is more than an
excoriation.
Neo sings the blues:
matrixman wrote:Beaten down, haggard
Ineluctable sorrow
in all my choices
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I already bowed down before neo's blues.
Other than that, I like Hyperception's first three.
Hyperception wrote:Mirth ineffable
Flares bright from steel-struck flint hearts:
Ineluctable

Corucsate, argent!
Apotheosis of fire
For love's catharsis

Claws rend my back's flesh
Tendrils of pure brilliance: my
Excoriation
...yeah, yeah, I know I'm supposedly biased...
But to me they feel like they stay true to the intent of Japanese haiku. As well as being beautifully written.
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Post by StevieG »

You try and understand them, MM? :lol:

There are some great ones, but I vote for Matrixman's ineluctable because it made me sad, and psytechnm's ineluctable, because it made me laugh.
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Post by wayfriend »

(Okay: I'm preternaturally late; stuff came ineluctably up.)

And the winner is ...
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matrixman!

For his ineluctably sad haiku. Lots of votes helped this one win. (If votes didn't count, Hyperception's praeternaturally vivid haiku was my personal favorite, albeit unambergrisedly misspelled. :o) )
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Yay, MM! :clap:
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Congrats neo!!
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Congrats, Matrixman - the crowd favourite! :D
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WTG, MM!
Love prevails.
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Good Job, MM!!
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Thanks, everyone...and thank you to wayfriend for continuing to emcee one of the best threads in Gen Disc.
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Congrats, MM!
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nice MM! :bwave:
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Next time do something
Fun for those of us who really
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