5-7-5

Posted on February 1, 2005 by sheila

KISS fans? KISS groupies? KISS despisers? Haiku afficianodos? Annika is running a “KISS haiku contest”.

Scrolling through some of the contest-entries in the comments section made me laugh out loud.

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20 Responses to 5-7-5

  1. Emily says:
    February 1, 2005 at 1:58 pm

    As much as I hate KISS, I just had to play. What a hilarious idea!

  2. red says:
    February 1, 2005 at 2:06 pm

    Isn’t it hysterical??

  3. peteb says:
    February 1, 2005 at 2:13 pm

    Kiss? Colour me disinterested.

    But I played anyway. A fine haiku, Emily, nice to see the FCC guidelines adhered to.

  4. red says:
    February 1, 2005 at 2:16 pm

    Please remember that I DID write “Kiss fans? Kiss despisers?” It’s not required that you love Kiss in order to participate. Annika made that very clear.

    Anyone can write a haiku about those guys. Even the most disinterested.

  5. peteb says:
    February 1, 2005 at 2:17 pm

    *ahem* “But I played anyway”

  6. Emily says:
    February 1, 2005 at 2:17 pm

    I resisted a great deal of temptation to keep it PG-13, Pete. What I wanted to write was X-rated.

  7. red says:
    February 1, 2005 at 2:17 pm

    Actually, peteb, “color me disinterested” could be the 2nd line of your haiku. (If you pronounce “disinterested” like this: “disint’rested.” If you insist on saying “disintERested”, you’re up to 8 syllables, and then you’re screwed.)

  8. red says:
    February 1, 2005 at 2:18 pm

    You guys, I just read both of your entries, and am snorting with laughter.

    Emily … you’re gettin’ some praise over there. Well done you.

  9. peteb says:
    February 1, 2005 at 2:19 pm

    hmmm.. that’s probably a better line Sheila.

  10. red says:
    February 1, 2005 at 2:27 pm

    Oh and let me right now cut off any Haiku geek who comes along to tell me that there are other forms of Haiku that have nothing to do with 5 7 5. I KNOW THAT. Mmkay?

  11. Emily says:
    February 1, 2005 at 2:38 pm

    Yeah, I was going to say something to that point to Victor, but I don’t want to start some pedantic argument on somebody else’s blog. I mean, technically you could also claim that Haiku’s are suppose to introduce a challenge, present or suggest a solution, and resolve the problem. In seventeen syllables. I think it’s the hardest kind of poetry in the world (which is why I never do it).

    I once read somewhere that Gene Simmons had that little flap of skin in your mouth underneath your tongue removed so that he could stick it out *further*. You know, the one that humans have developed over millions of years of evolution to keep themselves from swallowing the damn thing? What a dolt.

  12. red says:
    February 1, 2005 at 2:40 pm

    My friend Mitchell and I … years ago … became so obsessed wtih the Winter Olympics (the Nancy Kerrigan winter olympics) … that SOMEHOW (please don’t ask me how) we ended up writing haiku after haiku after haiku for all of the Olympic athletes. We would cry with laughter about them. I still have them somewhere. I should post them sometime. They’re so stupid.

  13. peteb says:
    February 1, 2005 at 3:01 pm

    What worries me most is that my magpie brain threw up the time that Kiss tried to tour sans make-up.. despite the disinterest.

    and I wasn’t going to mention the 5-7-5 at all.. but I will point out ‘aficionados’.

  14. red says:
    February 1, 2005 at 3:07 pm

    I actually love KISS. Unapologetically.

  15. peteb says:
    February 1, 2005 at 3:11 pm

    Is there a haiku to back that up?

  16. mjf says:
    February 1, 2005 at 4:09 pm

    my haiku to Tonya Harding…

    Pink Spandex Falters

    Guilty Skates Have No Rhythm

    The World Is Unmoved

  17. annika says:
    February 1, 2005 at 4:26 pm

    You Rock, Sheila. You’ve already got more comments about my contest than i have over at my contest!

    : )

  18. red says:
    February 1, 2005 at 4:40 pm

    mjf:

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    What … why do you have that haiku so easily accessible?? Or have you memorized it??

  19. red says:
    February 1, 2005 at 4:41 pm

    There was some skier we all were obsessed with, too, MJF – do you remember? An American guy?

    Hometown girl legume.

    Mitchell, we were all completely insane. Haikus about Olympic athletes?

  20. Dave J says:
    February 1, 2005 at 5:14 pm

    Annika, you should probably be careful about capitalizing “Rock” around Sheila. ;-)

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