Friday Haiku Contest Winner!
I love that I get Friday Haiku Contest entries from folks across the globe. And I love that this week's winner is one of those overseas lads.
The winning haiku for the week, using the theme word BLANK, is:
I plead with my muse
to give me inspiration
yet the page stays blank
~ Keith A.
Congratulations, Keith! I love your haiku ... for many reasons, but mostly because <ahem> misery loves company and that darn muse sure has been eluding me of late, too!
Keith from the U.K. wins an all-American, old-time goodie: a wooden train whistle.
It even says "U.S.A" on the caboose (which is actually more of an ore cart than a caboose).
Again, congrats, Keith. E-mail me your mailing address so I can send you your nifty whistle. And thank you for participating in the Friday Haiku Contest!
If you would like to participate -- and I hope you do -- you can find all the details on the Friday Haiku Contest right HERE. (Of course, you can always click on the Friday Haiku Contest tab at the top of the page, too.)
Today's question:
If you could find one thing, besides money, in your family attic, what would you want to discover?
I would like to find a trunk full of old pictures, pictures with names and dates on them. I love family pictures and have so very few of older generations. And if they were labeled, it would give us -- meaning primarily Jim, the geneology buff -- a starting point for finding more branches of our family tree (of which I know very, very little on the maternal side). Plus, they'd make for really cool decor, hung in old-time photos in my old-time house.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Reader Comments (5)
Congratulations, Keith, and welcome to Grandmas Briefs Haiku! Yours was real, simple, and definitely a winner.
I'd love to find cards, letters, anything hand-written by predecessors, giving a glimpse into their thoughts during their lifetimes.
Congrats to Keith! Great haiku.
I'd want to find scrapbooks with pictures, stories and mementos. My grandpa left a bunch of pictures but we don't know anything about them. Where were they taken? What were they doing? Who are all those people? To know those things would be incredible.
I have boxes of photos and papers from my mom's house that I'm sloooowly sorting through. One of my favorites was a letter my uncle wrote to my mom in 1943, while he was serving in World War II. I've sent it back to him and hope that he's treasuring it.
Congrats, Keith. That was a great haiku!
As for the question...my grandparent's spirits. I would go have tea with them in the attic ;0)
I would love to find old letters or diaries and a box of treasured mementos. Anything that was personal and had meaning to them.