Heavensward Primal Haiku Contest (NA) - Discussion Thread

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

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.

I used to write a ton of poetry up until a few years ago, and I'm happy to say this contest inspired me to cook up something for the first time in a long while.

Ugh, I just realized I spelt Wondrous wrong >.<

Haiku contest is
NA region only. Why
No JP version?

OMG EVEN IS ONE SYLLABLE!!!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by FinaSel

Haiku contest is
NA region only. Why
No JP version?

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Japanese Poems
By American Writers
This I have to see

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Originally Posted by Powe

OMG EVEN IS ONE SYLLABLE!!!!!!!!

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nvm guys lol, the syllable counter I was using was off I guess.

Since 3.3 is dropping on June 7th can you add nidhogg to the list of primals to the haiku contest?

Is it possible to edit the posts in the contest submission thread? I accidentally forgot to include my item of choice :x

Yeah, I accidentally included two items (I wanted the scarf but I copy-pasted the format from a post that included the earrings).

Bismark: Oh white wing-ed whale, how you flew so high above, lacking relevance

Messed up my haiku, one syllable short on the last line and can't edit it.

Oh well.

It was supposed to go:

Primal: Bismark

You have what I need...
They say he's just a fiend?
Oh-ho, baby you...

Chosen Item: Ahriman Choker

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Originally Posted by phatness2012

Since 3.3 is dropping on June 7th can you add nidhogg to the list of primals to the haiku contest?

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Nidhogg is considered a great wyrm, not a primal. Also, honestly speaking from my point of view, the rewards are the same as usual so I'm sure any of your haikus are "worth" posting. I just posted the first thing that came to my mind since it's basically just for fun with no really "serious" rare prizes held in other contests.

I don't really want to write to the address for SE, but I'm pretty sure that the "Bluebird Earrings" is only a single Earring and should drop the "s" since it only shows up on the player's left ear, unless that's been changed since I won the prize a couple years ago.

Can you delete my entry on the contest? I wasted it on Bahamut...>.>

It has been over twenty years since I last wrote a haiku. I was about 11 years old when I last wrote one. It reminded my 6th grade teacher of when he used to live in Connecticut. (Holy moly, I spelled that correctly on the first try!)

Sadly, I wish that I could edit my entry to make it more awesome, though I do understand why I cannot.

So I will provide the improved version of my ode to Ravana:

Alone he looks on
Heroes dance the waltz of war
Blood rains like petals

Will there be an EU version of this competition? I'm an English student in England, and creative writing is really all I'm talented at, so I was really upset to find out that this is North America only meaning that I couldn't enter, since I like writing haiku's.

People of Japan
have been doing this for years
we wouldn't fare well.

I already submitted one officially, but this made me crack a smile:

Sephirot last phase
Earthshakers on the edge, then....
Elusive jump! Wheee!

Are Haikus not written in the correct format going to be disqualified?

And how is pronunciation going to work in terms of syllables?

Like, "HP" should read as two syllables since you hard pronounce both of the letters; some words can take either two or three syllables depending on pronunciation, as well.

Ah, I also forgot to mention that conjugated words also have different syllable counts. Just because "do not" is two syllables, it does not mean that "don't" is two syllables. It is all about how a word rolls off of the tongue.