2008 Halloween Haiku Contest Winners
First Place:
Vampire's mouth waters
Bobbing for blood red apples.
Vegetarian.
---Pallavi Kannan
Second Place: "What Lies Beneath"
Momentarily
Your kind mask slips to reveal
Monsters lurk beneath
---Annie Rachapudi
Third Place: "Really Alone?"
Pitch-black room, sudden
brush of fingers on my neck
Terror taints my breath
---Annie Rachapudi
Honorable Mention:
"Invisible Existence"
Floating through the air
No one can see or hear it
All humans… Beware!
---Elliot Johnson
Staff Family Winner:
A tiny black bat
Flying toward a sturdy wall
Can't echolocate
---Julia Illana
2007 Halloween Haiku Contest Winners
First Place:
Hey there Dracula
If you like false teeth that much
Keep munching candy
---Kai Liang
Second Place: "Mr. Brown's Evening"
Alone in the patch
The Great Pumpkin never rose
I'll try the graveyard
---Randy Kaw
Third Place:
Ghoulish grins aglow,
Toothless pumpkins guard each home
Round and ripe they sit
---Kamaria Campbell
Fourth Place (tie)
Paperweight costume
Not such a great idea
Flailing on my back
---Melissa Miller
Middle of June and
Candy corn found under rug
Tastes as good as new
---Melissa Miller
Ding, Dong! Trick or Treat!
Pitter, patter, little feet,
Painted faces smile!
---Kamaria Campbell
Fifth Place (tie)
cider on the stove
made of blood and brains and guts
apples optional
---Natalie Gan
A coffee-stain moon
pours a warm glow over all
the Trick-or-Treaters.
---Chris Nold
Sixth Place:
Costumed capers creep,
Up and down the moonlit streets,
Halloween is here!
---Kamaria Campbell
Honorable Mentions:
Invisible Man
This costume did not work out
Still got hit with eggs
---Melissa Miller
Night before the storm:
Giddy, giggling, costumed kids.
Hope I've enough treats!
---Minerva Thai
I swear I saw a
White sheet flying through the mist
Sorry, sugar rush
---Kai Liang
i am a vampire
found my outfit at target
but the thirst is real
---Natalie Gan
Special Duke/Carolina Honorable Mention: "Revelry and Rivalry"
Gone to Franklin Street
Transportation paid by Duke
No rivalry here!
---Kevin Geck