Hot Tomato Haiku Contest Winners 2009
If you missed the presentation at the Tomato Art Fest this weekend (pictures coming soon), here are the winners of this year’s Hot Tomato Haiku Contest. It was an extraordinarily close race with over 400 entries, but the following haiku stood out among their categories. (Category descriptions are at our Haiku 2009 page.)
Congratulations to our winners and a very special thank-you to our judges–Bonnie Smith, Danielle Alexander, and David Curtis–all of Belmont’s English Dept. If you’d like to sign up to receive an email before next year’s contest, visit our Haiku 2010 page.
Basho’s Beefsteak Winner
by Julie Greenberg
Brandywine fever
finds me circling the garden,
hoping I missed one.
Plum Humorous Winner
by Amy E. Hall
Pastor Bruce Shetta
to marry Tobas Coe and
Miss Mary Nara
Stinky Tomato Winner
by John Cooper
Distant Tomato
You can run but you can’t hide
Time to play ketchup
Fried Green Winner
by Allie McGilberry, 9 years old
Orange, red and yellow,
Thou art a fruit I must eat.
I want to eat thee.
Melissa Duke’s Best in Show
by Gregory O’Loughlin
I trained vines for you
Cages could not hold your wild
Cherokee purple
Juicy Red Honorable Mention
by Libby Neutrino
Red moon over the silent hill
tonight I dream
of a Better Boy
Karin Moore of Nashville and Kathy Boyce of Denver, CO, dropped by our booth to deliver these haiku they wrote over lunch that day. Thanks ladies!
Red, greed and heirloom
Growing slowly in the sun
Nectar of summer
Fruit? Vegetable?
Matters not in the garden
Carriers of joy
Crowns on a salad
Spaghetti sauce and salsa
Universal life