Hot Tomato Haiku Contest: 2008 Winner
This year’s Hot Tomato Haiku Contest is really heating up. We’d like to say a special thanks to our friends for helping spread the word on Twitter, Facebook, Craigslist, and everywhere else.
We also just took delivery of the file containing last year’s entries and winners. Last year’s contest did not use the same categories, but there was one overall winner. Unfortunately, the file does not include the names of each entrant. We have no idea who submitted what. If you see your haiku in this list, would you email us so we can credit you?
Without further ado, we present some haiku from last year’s contest, including the overall winner.
The Entrants
frost in the forecast –
my neighbor’s tomato plants
wear grocery bags
seedy part of town
ripe with saucy folk in red –
East Nashville August
Indian summer –
tomatoes splitting their skins
on neglected vines
color has odor
just touch a tomato plant
you will smell fresh green
I hate tomatoes
I think they are very gross
It’s opposite day
summer lake picnic –
her children eat tomatoes
whole, one in each hand
Blossom rot you scourge
My Silvery Fir for naught,
O temp’rate dog days
The Winner
Salmonella suspect
The jalepeno’s scapegoat
Vindication now
