Crouch Halloween Haiku Contest: The Return...

Fans of the Crouch Fine Arts Library Halloween Haiku Contest are cheering in the streets following the appearance of what is now sure to be a semi-regular tradition.

The 2008 2nd Pseudo-Biannual Halloween Haiku Contest results are in. The prizes for this year were even more spectacular than before, thanks to Special Events Prize Coordinator, Mandi Marshall!

Following a weekend working retreat in the Balkans, the official award selection committee has released the following results:

First Place, "Best Last Lines," and "Haiku Triptych" awards go to...

Candy corn is gross
It’s the worst candy of all,
Except for wax lips.

I want a costume,
But when you are twenty-three
They are all slutty.

We will be a horse
This year for All Hallows Eve
You can be the butt.

-Jenny Maurer

Second Place and Best Music Theme Award goes to...

Dress music’ly themed
And then your costume will be
Sure to cause “treble.”

-Margaret Crites

Third Place and Most Ephemeral Last Line Award goes to...

Princesses and ghosts
Run from one house to the next
All for sugared bliss

-Alicia Fuhrman

FINALISTS

Best Tim Burton Imagery

A scream in the night
Dark swaying of gnarled tress
Oh, Halloween time

-Casey Barillas

Best Marketing

Pumpkins and witches,
Decorations from Wal-mart,
Always low prices

-Adrien Lavernge

STUDENT STAFF CATEGORY

Staff Pick

Halloween at Crouch…
Don’t shelve in the dark corners-
Hidden ghosts will pounce!

-Katie White

Honorable Mentions

“The Joker’s Halloween”
As evil plagues night,
Tricksters fuel insanity
Why so serious?

-Aryc Lane

Pumpkins are first sold
Then carved out and left alone
Beware the lit ones.

-Kelsey Ervi

Watch for the vampire.
Oh no! He’s going to get…
It is too late now.

-Rachael Hibbs

The porch light is out
Annoying Trick-or-Treaters
No candy for you.

-Rachael Hibbs

Dude from I.L.S.
Gives me odd looks and asks for books
Scares me all year ‘round!

-Anonymous (we know who you are)

QUARTER FINALISTS

Most Cheerful

Candy and costumes
Create children with bright smiles
Happy Halloween

-Chris Johnson

Most Expressive

A spooky spider
Crawling along the carpet
Oh no! He scared me!

-Geoff Adams

Scariest

Blood curling screams
Fill the night where kids lie dead
The boogey man feasts

-Miriam Uduebor


Rachael stands alone
Ominous third floor creaking.
Someone watches her.

-Chance Eakin

Most Bitter About Working on Halloween

Halloween is near
Big deal. I still have to work.
My boss is a jerk.

Close the library
Halloween for everyone.
That would be more fun!

Halloween is weird
So true. Plus, I need more cash.
I’ll quit talkin’ trash.

-Anonymous


It’s Halloween now
Lots of fun and games to play
Oh wait, I’m at work

-Justin Vance

Suspiciously Written in the Same Handwriting

Lest he ne’er rebukes.
Witches and goblins and spooks!
Candy sweats and pukes.

-Christine Lagaly

Most Suspicious Name Misspelling

It is HALLOWEEN
I would like to hear you scream.
Look out! It’s a bear!

-Stephen Variamas

Staff Section

Caramel* apples
Milk duds and laffy taffy
Sad day for braces

*Pronounce car-a-mel
-Mandi Marshall

Warm roasted turkey
Mom’s delicious pumpkin pie
Oops wrong holiday

-Mandi Marshall

“Sha’s Middle School Halloween Memory”
She wants to hang out
Raggedy Andy costume
We are friends no more.

-Mandi Marshall

Sweetest Halloween
Thy saccharine strains intone
A porcine refrain

-Jamie Duerksen

“Saint-Saens Inspiration”
La Danse Macabre
Earthly treasures all in vain
Death unites us all

-Alex Shiu

“Halloween Costumes”
Batman and Joker
Frankenstein and Indy
Minnie and Mickey

- Alex Shiu

I love to be seen
Going green on Halloween
That’s my smart car, fool.

-Pattie Orr

Most Disgruntled

Poor music student
Needs more CDs than allowed
Stingy library

-Justin Vance

Pumpkin Haikus

Glowing pumpkins grin
Faces lighted from within
Jesting, “Trick or treat!”

-Alicia Fuhrman

Pumpkins are first sold
Then carved out and left alone
Beware the lit ones.

-Kelsey Ervi