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I Wanna Write A Blog Post, But I’ll Settle For A Haiku
Nov 12 2008

And I wanna be a cowboy too, but given my crazy self-inflicted schedule of two, three, four, five (yes each kid, the husband, and the house are also job-like at times), I can’t seem to find the time to get all those deep and meaningful posts written.  So, I’ll have to settle for a haiku and hope I win a MacBook Air.  Copyblogger is running a contest where the person who writes the winning Haiku on twitter will win a MacBook Air.  The second and third prizes look interesting too, but winning the MacBook Air will impress my husband more than the Epson printer I just wrote about. 🙂  

Not being one who writes haiku’s often (i.e., probably not since 5th grade), I had to rely on these examples from the Copyblogger post:

“Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry. It consists of 17 syllables broken up into three phrases of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively.

Here are two quick examples found on Twitter Search with the tag #haiku:

Been up way too long / Need about a week’s more sleep / Might not be enough

~ @MFlanders

The furnace is fixed / breath invisible again / how much is the bill?

~ @badboc

Got it? Obviously, the more clever, comedic, or compelling your haiku, the better your chances of winning.”

So here’s my haiku:

Working day and night / To change the world for parents / One diaper a day

I was going to write at the end ‘one diaper an hour’ but since it’s late and my brain isn’t at 100%, I wasn’t sure if ‘hour’ would be read as one syllable or two depending on what city/state/country the judges were from.  So I changed it to ‘a day’ to avoid any controversy.  Plus it can be a stinky (wish you could change that diaper more often) experience in a a start-up/small business/Internet endeavor so I figured if the diaper shoe fits…

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5 Comments on “I Wanna Write A Blog Post, But I’ll Settle For A Haiku”

  1. 1 Brian Clark said at 10:05 PM on November 12th, 2008:

    >>I wasn’t sure if ‘hour’ would be read as one syllable or two depending on what city/state/country the judges were from.

    I laughed really out loud to that. 🙂 Thanks for playing along with us… so many people seem to be having so good a time.

    Brian Clarks last blog post..Twitter Writing Contest 2: Win a MacBook Air for a Clever Haiku

  2. 2 Aruni said at 10:34 PM on November 12th, 2008:

    @Brian – Always good to make someone laugh. When I found myself thinking too much about the word ‘hour’ being one or two syllables I figured it best to come up with something else. 🙂

  3. 3 Lucretia Pruitt said at 12:52 AM on November 13th, 2008:

    Love that!
    Have you followed http://twitter.com/momku ?
    She doesn’t tweet as much anymore, but I love her stuff! 🙂

    Lucretia Pruitts last blog post..Blogging Guilt

  4. 4 pearl said at 8:49 AM on November 14th, 2008:

    haha one diaper a day doesn’t sound close to reality 🙂 my brother has a 2 yr old and I hear him say that every trip to shop rite has diaper bags on the list

    good luck with the contest

  5. 5 Aruni said at 3:44 PM on November 14th, 2008:

    @Lucretia – your comment got caught in spam…must be all those different email addresses you use. 🙂 I’ll check out @momku!

    @pearl – depending on the day and age of kid you can go through up to 10 or 15 diapers in a day sometimes!