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Food Haiku Contest – Fooku 2011!

By Last Update April 20, 2018

Presenting the 2011 “fooku”, Portland Food and Drink’s annual food haiku contest.

Sharpen your pencils and wax poetic! You can read winning entries from the past below; they are wonderful.

The rules are pretty simple. Your entry must be in haiku format. The ancient art of haiku requires precision: a five syllable first line; seven syllable second line; and five syllables third line. Many haiku features a last line that works like a friendly elbow in the ribs. We only ask that your entry is about food or wine. Bonus points if it is about wine.

A syllable is a part of a word capable of being pronounced by a single impulse of the voice.  I’m sure someone can explain this more simply than me, but it’s the way the word rolls off of the tongue. “Cat” is one syllable. “Be-cause” is two. “Syl-la-ble” is three.

Anyone?

Check out the winning entries from past years below for ideas and to get the feel of haiku. Have fun! Please leave your entries in the comment section of this post.

Some winners from previous years:

2009

By Mark:

Morning coffee brews
Melting butter on warm toast
The furnace kicks in

By Maria W.

Give me some pasta
forkfuls of love and ruin.
The wine’s nearly gone.

By Maria W:

Farmers Market says
“no dogs this year.” May I bring
Spot, my truffle pig?

2008

By MySwanDive:

inhale swirls of cab
palate warmed, bask in the fire
newly lit like me

By Zac Stafford:

He cooked with passion.
The real reason we broke up?
Knives in dishwasher

2007

By CookForHire:

sound of meat browning
feel of knife through vegetable:
a true cook’s reward

By Womby:

at last, no jacket
instead, i grab sunglasses
soon come the favas

By Truth:

airy is the crumb
earthy, this crust of Pearl
heavenly, the smell

2006

By Fathom:

Now forego the fork
Hold close this slice of heaven
Perfect on a crust

By Pam:

Champagne, strawberries
and you, here in my warm bed.
Who cares if it rains?

By Witzend:

How bad could it be?
Real bad. Think Hung Far Low bad.
Ok, fine! YOU choose.

Reader Interactions

Comments

    • Craig Clark says

      Pin stripes and straw hats.
      I scream! You sream! We all Scream!
      Bring in “The Zoo”!

  12. Kassie Halpin Robinson says

    Fresh, raw, exquisite:
    Salmon’s salt, tang, rests on pearls.
    Wasabi bursts through.

    • Kristin Winslow says

      This one instead if possible:

      Pronunciation?
      You said, “Willamette, dammit”
      drank my wine smiling

      Thanks!

  20. AmandaAngelaMarjorie says

    sips bubbly and cooks
    sizzling greens in garlic cloves
    low spring moon hangs full