Starlight Celebration Haiku Contest (EU) - Discussion/Practice Thread

Please feel free to use this thread to discuss the Starlight Celebration Haiku Contest and practice submitting your entries.

Please remember, you cannot edit your entries in the entry thread once you have posted.

The full contest details and rules can be found here.

When you are ready to make your entry, please do so by posting in the Entry Thread.

It's a little disheartening to see that a number of the entries thus far would fail to qualify based on syllable count.

Writing an haiku?
Be a true Manderville man,
and prove that you can!

Byregot, guide my keyboard!

http://imgur.com/a/dn5Wx

http://i.imgur.com/3CF8mBi.png

I understand that if multiple entries are posted, only the first will be accepted, but what if the first is judged to not fit the theme? Will the next one then be considered (and so on)?

I was curious because basically I was unsure whether the haiku I want to submit fits the theme closely enough, and in case it doesn't I do have a few backups that I would like to use rather than not submitting anything.

Time to concoct a winning formula for next year's Starlight.

Starlight...blah blah blah.
Counting syllables is hard.
Presents...blah blah...salt.