November 17, 2009

The FinerMinds Haiku Challenge — Give Us Your Best Haiku On Personal Growth And Transformation

haikuAlright, are you ready? Put on your thinking caps and let’s get started with the greatest haiku challenge ever!

A story about transformation, personal growth, and spirituality can be hard to write. But what’s even harder? Compressing that entire story into a 3-line, 17 syllable (well, 17 moras if you wanna get technical) haiku.

If you forgot what a haiku is, it’s a 3 line poem. The first and last line contain 5 syllables, while the middle line contains 7. So 5–7-5.

So drop a comment with your own haiku about personal growth, transformation, spirituality, or life!

Here’s one to get you going. If Dylan Thomas had written zombie haikus, this would probably be it:

Zombie Haiku by Dylan Thomas (from Zombiehaiku.com)
Do not go gentle
into that zombie plagued night.
And take the shotgun.

Can’t wait to hear your haikus! And no, they don’t have to be zombie related ;)

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83 Responses to The FinerMinds Haiku Challenge — Give Us Your Best Haiku On Personal Growth And Transformation
  1. JIM
    November 28, 2009 | 9:46 am

    Calm your monkey mind

    Focus on your in out breaths

    Lose your selfishness

  2. JIM
    November 28, 2009 | 9:49 am

    We are transmigrants

    Passing through this veil of tears

    Heading home to God

  3. Mslady726
    November 28, 2009 | 11:26 am

    Self-Discovery

    The journey unfolds
    Spiritual trails and valleys
    An intimate quest

  4. Susan Gilman
    November 28, 2009 | 1:43 pm

    Flowing thru Changes,
    Breathe as Life unfolds, knowing
    “I AM THAT I AM”.

  5. Susan Gilman
    November 28, 2009 | 1:45 pm

    Moderation, NOW.
    Surrender it all to God,
    Dancing in de-Light.

  6. Bobbie Ann Pimm
    November 28, 2009 | 3:20 pm

    Watching eyes, seeing
    I, submerged, peering outward,
    Inward seeing eyes.

    And another:

    Illuminating
    Flashes light the darkest hour
    Enlightening TRUTH

  7. A K Franklin
    November 28, 2009 | 5:07 pm

    Noiseless thoughts define
    The who and what I am not
    Proving that I am

  8. A K Franklin
    November 28, 2009 | 5:14 pm

    Knowing that I am
    Flowing with all existence
    Grows the one we are

  9. A K Franklin
    November 28, 2009 | 5:39 pm

    Water from tears grew

  10. Karen F. Ellis
    November 28, 2009 | 7:32 pm

    with effort grave and
    undauntingly pushing on,
    I have been reborn

  11. May
    November 29, 2009 | 3:06 am

    Words can free your mind
    Seventeen syllables said
    in time with your heart

  12. Nancy
    November 29, 2009 | 8:50 am

    Starting Over (aka Divorce)

    left life as it was
    greatest challenges bring growth
    finding the real me

  13. oneat1
    November 30, 2009 | 1:31 am

    haiku poetry
    releasing inhibitions
    sets us free to be

  14. oneat1
    November 30, 2009 | 1:45 am

    loving it always
    making us shrink in oneness
    makes us grow in one

    …this is fun!!!

  15. Jon
    November 30, 2009 | 4:32 pm

    Emotional control
    Like the loving one whole
    The only goal

    All thought is spirit
    Aim for the fastest one
    the peaceful son

    To move to truth
    all thought in time
    From the divine rime

  16. Leslie
    December 3, 2009 | 2:34 pm

    Summer’s sun has fled
    Winters seclusion. silence
    Time for reflection

  17. surendren nair
    January 19, 2010 | 11:01 am

    Meditation is
    Addiction to Perfection
    “True Medication”

  18. Walt Weintz
    January 25, 2010 | 11:28 am

    Grow further once more
    And do it naturally
    Actualize yourself

  19. Derek Dalsin
    January 26, 2010 | 12:54 pm

    What I See

    Insurmountable

    Opportunities Every

    Where You Look Today

  20. Nicolas Castanon
    January 30, 2010 | 10:00 pm

    In Spanish:

    Llanto y lamento,
    espacio y vacio,
    por que me lamento
    si vendra el Rocio

  21. Nicolas Castanon
    January 30, 2010 | 10:06 pm

    In English:

    Crying and sorrow
    space and emptyness
    why I’m worried
    if the early rain will came

  22. Evone Monteith
    February 2, 2010 | 6:03 am

    Beloved is heart
    felt daily, enhanced by
    poem, sketch, and song.

  23. Cindy Simpson-Scharff
    February 8, 2010 | 2:29 pm

    1.
    I am created
    In divine love and wisdom
    Heaven’s child on Earth
    2.
    Belief not required
    Just open your heart and know
    Miracles find you
    3.
    I feel your spirit
    And I’m honored to listen
    To it’s whispered dreams
    4.
    When all falls away
    And we surrender to love
    Heaven rejoices
    5.
    The Beatles were right
    All faiths, all people, always
    Love is all there is
    6.
    A love which transforms
    Beckons to my heart daily
    I call it Reiki
    7.
    When seeking pure truth
    Transformation is the key
    Through divine free will

  24. Adam
    February 12, 2010 | 4:26 pm

    My Awakened Mind

    Rapidly Progressing Too

    Heaven Awaits I

  25. Adam
    February 13, 2010 | 12:06 am

    My Awakened Mind

    Rapidly Progressing Too

    Heaven Awaits I

  26. Drew
    February 16, 2010 | 8:34 pm

    Loud Mute Voices In Life & Mind

  27. Drew
    February 16, 2010 | 8:36 pm

    Spoken Shame Are Words Of Love In Heart

  28. Drew
    February 16, 2010 | 8:37 pm

    Kiss Eye’s To Kiss The Soul

  29. Drew
    February 16, 2010 | 8:38 pm

    One Leaf never Travels Alone

  30. Drew
    February 16, 2010 | 8:39 pm

    Stand Alone In A Crowded Room

  31. Bob Stelloh
    February 20, 2010 | 10:11 am

    my examined life
    reveals the past and present
    creates the future

    how to grow myself:
    a hard yet so rewarding
    task I must tackle

    happiness: tricky
    it’s not a destination
    but a striven goal

  32. evernalways1
    February 25, 2010 | 8:29 am

    Light reveals all sides (plural)
    Darkness of your sol, “Surprise“
    Immortal Light Shines

    • evernalways1
      February 25, 2010 | 9:01 am

      (I hope all who read this turned to “some1” n
      said “soul without U” gotta love it, gotta get
      it)

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