Plutonica.net Erisian Haiku Contest: Win a free book!
By Psyche | May 7, 2008
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Last year for Agnostica Plutonica.net ran a contest where subscribers could win an Agnostica box. This time we’re running an Erisian Haiku Contest for Eris Day and the prize is Kaostar!, a written by Francis Breakspear.
Eris Day
Eris is the Greek goddess of chaos and discord. Today, she’s mostly remembered as the goddess who tossed the golden apple into a party she was not invited to which ultimately instigated the Trojan War. Discordians, by and large, take a decidedly lighter view of her than the ancient Greeks, and revel in her mischief. The Principia Discordia is her primary text. 1
Eris Day was declared to be May 23rd by Discordians as May is the fifth month and five is a number of chaos (the first break in the stable order of four), and twenty-three is famed by the likes of William S. Burroughs and Robert Anton Wilson as being particularly significant.
Haiku
English haikus are typically three lines following a syllabic pattern of 5-7-5, but we’re looking for Erisian haikus – feel free to take whatever liberties you deem necessary. They don’t even need to be about Eris – Erisian “flavour” is enough!
How to Win
Post your poems here, or e-mail them to psyche [at] plutonica [dot] net (remove nospam if clicking on the hyperlink). We’ll share them in the blog, so be sure to include the name you’d like used, and a link to your blog or website if you’d like it included. You can submit as many entries as you like.
If (when!) you win, I’ll send an e-mail requesting an address to send the prize to, so be sure to include a working e-mail address where you can be reached. (It won’t be stored, sold or otherwise compromised. I promise.)
The contest will end at midnight on May 23rd so get your entries in before then, and we’ll share submissions before announcing a winner.
What You Win
The prize will be a copy of Francis Breakspear’s Kaostar! reviewed earlier this year mailed to the winner.
Have Fun!
We’re not looking for the next Yosa Buson – don’t get too hung up on the particulars, relax, have fun with it!
And feel free to pass this on to anyone else you think will be interested!
Footnotes:
- Also see Discordian Games. [back]
This is an update to my previous post which I would appreciate if you’d delete.
Here is one for you:
A Golden Apple?
For The Fairest? Its all mine
So Fuck Off!
It has *my* vote!
This should be interesting. I’m running on about four hours of sleep.
Hot dogs, sans the buns.
Her love is the squishiest.
No room for bread.
….it’s just going to get worse, I think.
MU is the answer.
Or is it the question, you ask?
Either way, your dinner speaks.
Back for more, maybe, when I’m loopier still!
Golden silk hair flows,
the laughter of true madness.
Why does it rain trout?
Eris kissed my nose.
The rapture was unending.
Now I wear Straight-Jackets.
No Cabbages Found.
It’s already St Tibbs Day!
Hail Discordia!
The Hodge turns on Podge.
Take that thermodynamics!
St Gulik be Praised!
Nuts to all stress says,
Parable of Bitter Tea.
Let’s go play some Sink!
5, in Honour of Eris. Hail hail!
Kallisti!
my entry!
I Am The Damn Pope,
Eat My Shorts!
Follow Blindly With Vim!
thank you.. that is all.
final, final version ..please discard both previous versions 0:) danke
*A DISCORDIAN DEATH-EPIC HAIKU IN FIVE CHAPTERS*
King Kong died for You:
Ingrate domestic primate.
Banana peel death.
Five finger discount
Dun dun dun Dunnnnn, badum pshhh
Gobble gobble hey.
A Fnordian Slip
Aneristic nay-sayer
Hey: pull my finger
I lay, my deathbed
Eris descends, glorious
She farts on my face.
Discombobulate
Five tons of flax I become,
No longer a pope.
This is full of win, sir. O_O
Eris demands praise
But what praise can be offered to the mistress of chaos aside from haikus bent out of shape?
Apples, wars and popes
=Announcement Haiku=
World in transition,
Dispersive data sources,
Content hard to find.
5 Disconnected Haiku Connect for Eris
A hounded beetle
Dashes madly for the wall
Almost, almost, al
Between the cushions
Of my couch, someone’s wallet…
Who is Edmund Burke?
A fastidious hound
Carefully choosing the spot
Pisses on roses
As the priestess sits
In tranquil meditation
A dog licks her face
Nothing but silence,
When I finally realize
What a fool I’ve been.
In response to brandon in japan:
What a fool I’ve been
But from there comes my fortune
Always just in time
And just for fun:
Take it at the truth
Not all who wonder are lost
Or not, as you will
All statements are true
They are also meaningless
And false to be sure
things fall apart
(no hot dog buns)
make me smile
(dwarf planet my ass)
can’t wait what’s next
the sound of screaming
grains of sand scratch kootch
bleeding toe broken
forever nothing
caldera blows east
a competition!
To enter, write a haiku.
Don’t mention Eris
This is not an entry.
Some of the best from that thread include:
—–
Working overtime
Stand up! Proclaim your monkey freedom by throwing fecal matter at your boss! Here he comes now!
Kill the web browser.
—–
waking up early
the dangers and pressures and stresses of modern living quickly sickening and fuck that noise
he is drunk by noon
—–
Hopefully that will insprire some win and mittens.
Neat stuff, thanks for sharing!
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