Steelers vs. Bengals haiku contest
The Steelers won a hard-fought battle last night on Monday Night Football. Now it’s time for fans to capture the key elements of the game in a haiku.
The contest rules are simple. You must summarize the Steelers-Bengals game in a haiku. A haiku is a form of Japanese poetry that contains only 3 lines. The first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables, and the third line has 5 syllables. Typically, haiku do not rhyme.
Please note, the emphasis is on syllables, not words. Remember 5/7/5.
I start the competition by offering a haiku of my own. Then you readers write a haiku of your own to try to beat mine. On Thursday I will announce this week’s contest winner. But remember, your haiku has to be better than mine. If none of your entries are better than mine, then I take home the prize.
Here is my entry:
Bengals fear Steelers
But T.O. didn’t know that
Guess he knows it now
The winner of this week’s contest is going to win a copy of the book “The Ones Who Hit the Hardest” by Chad Millman and Shawn Coyne. It’s a great book that belongs on the bookshelf of any Steelers fan.
- This week’s prize
Okay readers, your turn. Lets see who can come up with the best haiku about the Steelers-Bengals game.
Are you ready for some haiku?!!
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Early bungles nice
1Fourth quarter heart rate faster
We dey once again
Bengals had T. O.
2but could not match our big D
Season over Marv
Steelers crush Bengals
3Oh wait, game is not over
squeaky win again
Like Steeler days past
4Defense gets tough when it counts
TO Ocho Ciao
Three fiftynine left
5The pain in my chest came back
Not two years running
We WIN once again
6But Steelers dropping like flies
This doesn’t look good
Jeff Reed flubs again
7Tomlin trades him to Bengals
Only in my dreams