Easter Haiku

Rules:

In this week's QUICKIE short-form text contest, your task is to celebrate Easter in haiku (Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons" -dictionary.com).

1st line - 5 syllables,
2nd line - 7 syllables
3rd line - 5 syllables

Example:

Easter almost here
Worthians need a quick fix
Write a haiku fast

The rules of the game are thus: Create an original haiku celebrating Easter. Please review Worth 1000's Text contest rules before submitting. As always, quality is a must. We'll remove poor entries no matter how much we like you. You have 4 days for this contest, so make your submission count.


One haiku per entry please


Word guideline: none, but use only 17 syllables per entry, please.

Entries:

A Tundra Feast

Easter in Juneau--
Bunnies hide popsicle eggs;
Polar bears rejoice

Word count: 10


The Final Egg

We winced as she ate
What she had finally found
That last egg in June

Word count: 15


An Ecclesiastical Celebration

Today we rejoice
In awe of resurrection
Christ the Lord has come

Word count: 12


Forever Easter

On a dark day, death
On third day, resurrection
Everlasting life

Word count: 11


Baby's first...

My girl hunts for eggs
Toddling through my house with glee
On her first Easter

Word count: 15


Not So Happy Easter

The kids hunt for eggs
But they wont find any here
I ate them all. Burp!

Word count: 16


Sunday Afternoon

By the lotus pond
I brush the dirt off your cheeks...
One more egg to go!

Word count: 16


Growing up

Warm buttery scent –
hot cross buns and simnel cake.
Memories of youth.

Word count: 12


Meaning of Easter

The Lord has risen
so Man-kind can be reborn
Our sins forgiven

Word count: 12


Easter Pink

Fluffy lambs and ducks
got real drunk at bunny's hutch,
he dyed them all pink.

Word count: 15


Coloring Secret

I don't paint the eggs
In fact, I do not have to
I just use last year's

Word count: 17


Fun Break

Family fun time,
treasure hunts, hidden prizes -
Egg-citing Easter.

Word count: 9


Coloring Eggs

There's dye everywhere -
Except the egg. Two-year-olds
dying eggs - Bad idea!

Word count: 11


But who doesn't like CANDY?!?!

Didn't Jesus die
and reappear or something?
It's all candy, now.

Word count: 11


Easter Sunday

The sun is rising
Everyone is dressed up
In pastels and white

Word count: 12


Alive in me

Jesus lived to die
Upon the cross, crucified
Rose that I might live

Word count: 13


Easter Eggs

In go colored dyes
In go eggs for color rich
Out come memories

Word count: 13


Egg Hunt

Colored eggs lay in
the grass. Children skip as they
place them in baskets.

Word count: 14


Easter Bunny

The easter bunny
Basket full of suprises
Yummy treats for all

Word count: 11


It's almost summer

Birches getting green
Easter is already here
It's almost summer!

Word count: 10


Date

Vernal equinox
After which the first full moon
Sunday is Easter

Word count: 11


Roadkill & Eggs

bunny crossing road

pretty egg basket in hand

WATCH OUT FOR THE...truck.

Word count: 13


Smelly Christmas Surprise

pretty rainbow eggs

hope your kids find all of them

before next Easter!

Word count: 13


World Anew

The Lord is risen.
Praise the power of our God.
The World is reborn.

Word count: 14


Colorful Bunnies

Colorful bunnies
Recite their last prayer and jump
In my cozy mouth

Word count: 12


Easter Grass

Plastic easter grass
tiny jelly beans with spots.
Bite off bunny's ears.

Word count: 12


Easter Truths

Christ died for our sins
His Friday was not so good
Hop goes the bunny

Word count: 15


Bunny Electric

I sing the bunny
electric who chews lamp cords
and leaves hard boiled eggs.

Word count: 14


Timeless

All that egg laying,
And yet arsi still has time:
To DQ my Chops

Word count: 14


where is that last damn egg?

The hunt nears it's end.
The scent of finality
Last egg! two weeks late.

Word count: 14


On Your Honor

Joyful song for You
Miracle greeted with nails
But honored with praise.

Word count: 12


How Great Thy Lord

How great thou thunder
From Lofty Mountain Grandeur --
Thy Lord hath risen

Word count: 12


Joyful Easter

Mystifying sweets
Searchable treasures for kids
Smiles reign forever

Word count: 9


What would Jesus do on Easter?

He would eat matzah
to honor the Exodus
of Jews from Egypt.

Word count: 12


Easter Tears

Scattered through the house,
Children finding all of them -
One crying, "Mine's cracked!"

Word count: 13


Easter Egg Hunt

Mom hides Easter eggs
Dad locates the camera
Kids with baskets laugh

Word count: 12


Perennials

Erupting crocus
Croaked divinity rising
Crocuses return

Word count: 7


easter bunny

easter bunny hops
through the childrens houses and
leaves them lots of treats

Word count: 13


Easter Haiku

roll away the stone
ascending are the saints
ashes to ashes

Word count: 11


Easter eggs

chocolate surprises
happy children everywhere
been waiting a year

Word count: 9


Why do we have Easter?

Easter? What is that?
Something to do with Jesus.
No one remembers.

Word count: 12


Paintball

"Good" Easter bunny... ?
Hah ! He flings Eggs and Paint, dude !
Paintball is his game.

Word count: 14


forget not why

joy, happiness, love -
choc'late, egg hunts, smiles, children -
nails, blood, Carpenter...

Word count: 11


Photoshopping

Easter is coming
Photoshopping some bunnies
Where are Easter eggs?

Word count: 10


A Calendar Based Date?

A biblical flood,
A second chance from the ark,
Where did easter start?

Word count: 13


The Parade

Straw, ribbon, chicks, eggs,
Multi coloured crepe paper.
Easter bonnet fun!

Word count: 11


Thirty Minutes Later

Acacia leaves falling
A goofy smirk on my face
An egg in a bush!

Word count: 14


Passover

The first Passover
God took non-Jewish first born sons
Then he took his own

Word count: 14


Before And After

Jelly beans galour,
Golden wrapped easter eggs,
Toothache and new weight.

Word count: 11


Easter Yolk

Here's an easter yolk.
What did the rabbit say when
he hopped cross the road?

Word count: 15


Easter

Easter is me not,
I haven't recieved one egg,
For I am Jewish

Word count: 13


Easter Bunny Hides

Why does the bunny
hide his eggs in a basket,
having sex with chicks?

Word count: 14


Oddball Easter

An Easter haiku,
Worth one thousand in a few,
Easter bunny eggs.

Word count: 12


Happy?

The time's come again
Coloured eggs around the world
Won't c_ be happy?

Word count: 13


Haiku Eggs

The easter chicken
laid some eggs for the bunny
who sold them for crack.

Word count: 14