It’s time for another contest, and since you guys did so well making up captions for our anniversary picture, we decided to see if we could squeeze any more creativity out of you!
For this contest, all you need to do is write seventeen syllables about mobile devices. Or about Ilium Software. That’s it! Of course, the technicality is that they need to be in the form of a haiku. Before you rush out and dust off your old textbooks – let me remind you what haiku is all about, and the rules for this contest:
- Haiku is a quick little poem, three lines long, consisting of 17 syllables
- The first line is 5 syllables, the second is 7, and the third line is 5 again
- Your haiku entry must be related to mobile devices or software in general
- If you want to earn some extra points from the judges, write a haiku related to Ilium Software!
Want some examples? This site defines haiku for you, and has some sample poems. And check out this page too for some pretty humorous haikus. Oh, and our judges are a little lenient, too. If you think of something really, REALLY cool to write, but it’s one or two syllables too long, go ahead and submit it anyway! We’re not sticklers; just don’t write an entire sonnet! Keep them as short and sweet as possible.
Because sometimes you can’t rush creativity, I’m going to let this contest run until Monday, at 8:00 a.m. EST. Then we’ll choose our five favorite haikus. The winners will get an Ilium Software swag pack – 2 click-pen styluses, one stick stylus, and one luggage tag, and the chance to have your haiku read at the next Ilium Software Annual Poetry Slam. Oh, and as mentioned in the blog title, here is Ode to a Pocket PC, my example for the contest:
I grow impatient
As you sit in your cradle
Recharging for me
Twitter
About NewsBreak:
On my Portrait screen
Is something I’ve never seen
Ilium’s feed queen!
And it rhymes too!
…And awesome ListPro
Provides me lists on the go
Uninstall? Oh no!
No need to be brave
if security you crave:
eWallet, so safe!
Ilium, to end
in 10 years, will never bend
Congrats, from a friend!
lol – that’s it for now
!
hehe one more
With stylus, a pen,
and a luggage tag, I can
show that I’m a fan!
Would six be enough
to win me some pretty stuff
Or’s this one too tough?
The seventh will be
the last one you’ll see from me.
Hope to get lucky!
I hope rhyming is allowed in haiku’s (or at least for this contest!), would hate to see me disqualified!
This one’s about Ilium Software, rather than mobile devices:
The top thing I don’t
miss about my last two jobs:
“Business Casual”
Listpro 5 we wait.
How much longer could it take?
Big splash it will make!
Oh no Activesync
Duplicate entries abound
Delete, sigh, delete
eWallet you’re great
All of my passwords with me
Click click there you are!
Ten year celebration
My, how time passes quickly
Here’s to another ten
LOL I just realise that my number 6 and 7 are not related to PPC’s or software, just to this contest!
Ilium or Troy
Both are legends of greatness
And stability
Oh, holy grail
of a perfect convergence
mobile sacrafice
Ilium Software
Computer geeks wearing hats
Anniversary
Because I forget
Passwords, credit cards and more
E-Wallet saves me
hands, fingers useless
that’s sure one tiny keyboard
peck peck backspace peck
Use for home, work, play
Listpro is clearly the way
All in order now
Ilium is ten
Can it have come so quickly?
Dunce caps and streamers