ATTENTION ALL POETS & WRITERS!!!
GlocallyNewark is excited to invite you to post a submission for a haiku contest! The winner of the contest will receive 2 passes for admission to the Dodge Poetry Festival, Saturday, October 13, 2012 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Here’s how it goes…
- 17 syllable Haiku (does not have to be 5/7/5 format)
- OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
- Must be original work
- Deadline: Wednesday 10/10/12
- All haiku must be posted on the comments section of this blog post
- The winner will be selected by Glocally Newark Writing Staff
Please feel free to share the contest with any other writers you know. If they win, maybe they’ll bring you with them to the show!
October 8th, 2012 at 12:17 pm
Street Corner
Metal garbage can
Filled high with wrappers and bags
Sometimes a man too
October 8th, 2012 at 12:18 pm
Fishing
Flapping angrily
The catfish has been tricked by
The fake plastic bait
October 8th, 2012 at 12:19 pm
Ice Cream
Lickably tempting
Soft cold sweet mess of delight
Falling to the ground
October 8th, 2012 at 1:05 pm
the summer’s green grass —
can you spare some change mister?
we watch it recede
October 8th, 2012 at 1:42 pm
wrought iron unbound
brick, layered with smokey road
and us, with passion
October 8th, 2012 at 2:56 pm
A caterpillar
Catapulting her body
Over a rainbow.
October 8th, 2012 at 7:58 pm
fiery patchwork
overhead, embers bellowed
by October winds
October 9th, 2012 at 8:57 am
What are we writing for?
If we are not producing something to read
October 9th, 2012 at 9:01 am
Angels do exist
She smiled and I fell in love
What took you so long?
October 9th, 2012 at 9:03 am
You can tell my body obeys gravity
Cause I’m so down to earth
October 9th, 2012 at 9:25 am
Ohhhhh Pick Me
When we are overlooked
NOW…Wait ur turn.. Attention Seeker
October 9th, 2012 at 9:27 am
In an instant spark
A sage bush aflame; idea
Watch rivers burning
October 9th, 2012 at 9:28 am
Chrysalis of thought
Butterfly of a notion
Caterpillar dream
October 9th, 2012 at 9:33 am
Tulips kiss the sun
Pistils are aimed at children
Pushing up daisies
October 9th, 2012 at 9:37 am
Beautiful in light
Moon kissed skin emanates love
Embracing darkness
October 9th, 2012 at 9:42 am
Journey the city
Cemetary boulevard
Streets of fleur-de-lis
October 9th, 2012 at 9:57 am
Graffito green thumb
Avenue as the garden
A rose from concrete
October 9th, 2012 at 10:05 am
Melanin graceful
Complected intelligence
Braided her helix
October 9th, 2012 at 10:15 am
Fire hydrant smile
Children resemble flowers
Photo synth assist
October 9th, 2012 at 10:25 am
No news is real noose
Channel 9 blocks where they hang
Strange fruit are walking
October 9th, 2012 at 10:27 am
Crayola culture
The world considers you black
Think outside the box
October 9th, 2012 at 10:28 am
A revolution
Deejay spun a storyboard
Change in the music
October 9th, 2012 at 10:46 am
Vernal equinox
Chalked bodies are a vignette
Twins of night & day
October 9th, 2012 at 5:03 pm
Creation Nation
Seeks Patience from the,
Next Gracious Patient Station
October 9th, 2012 at 5:10 pm
GLOCALLY Gears Up
Locally for Poetrys’
Jerseys Top Poet
October 9th, 2012 at 5:35 pm
Tricked the whale swallowed Jonah,
He threw him back up.
“You, Big Fish No Smart.”
October 9th, 2012 at 5:51 pm
A Sensation
Awaiting Moderation
Mental Inspiration
October 10th, 2012 at 10:38 am
Oh, about cool-kids…
back in school, they lived fast-lives
now, they serve fast-food
October 10th, 2012 at 10:40 am
Dear Cameraman
you view things as desired,
while missing the truth
October 10th, 2012 at 10:41 am
you might have missed it…
the world was at war, today,
while Jersey Shore aired
October 10th, 2012 at 10:43 am
I voted for change;
Once, they changed the votes, down-south…
George? Barack? same flag…
October 10th, 2012 at 10:44 am
Problems multiplied,
minus love, plus hate, equals…
A world, divided
October 10th, 2012 at 10:45 am
Duck, Duck, Duck, Duck…Goose!
Pilgrims circle-chased natives
**Please, pass the turkey**
October 10th, 2012 at 2:12 pm
Need impartial opinion:
Tough love or verbal abuse;
Where’s the line?
October 10th, 2012 at 4:52 pm
an instrumental conception
of nature and work
misses the point
October 11th, 2012 at 6:49 am
A blind child smiling
Tracing every word of his story book
In Braille
October 11th, 2012 at 10:19 am
Never knew what an orgasm was
Until she came into my life
October 11th, 2012 at 10:20 am
I’ll invest in school
Because I can go places
Cars run out of gas
October 11th, 2012 at 10:21 am
We ran out of ink
We won’t be writing tonight
Darn, where’s the pencil
October 11th, 2012 at 5:42 pm
Newark
Home away from home
Never alone
Community always
October 11th, 2012 at 5:43 pm
New riots of thought painted on our streets
Changing our footsteps
To beats
October 11th, 2012 at 5:47 pm
Poor kings and queens
Are misplaced
In this race of change
In public space
October 11th, 2012 at 5:49 pm
No art programs
In schools
So they bleed out
On corporate walls
Summer
October 11th, 2012 at 5:50 pm
Tomorrow, food stamps
Are here
Foods only a day away
Get to store :/
October 11th, 2012 at 5:51 pm
Been surviving most my life
In the urban paradise
Don’t own shit
October 11th, 2012 at 7:42 pm
city streets
invisible chains
seperating
yet connecting
us
October 11th, 2012 at 7:48 pm
Art saved me
united us
freed masses
gave hope
made humans