Head-to-Head Haiku

Look out for the latest Zen Dada poetry competition you have ever seen, or heard.

Poems zip by with the speed of a Walt Whitman fastball. The judges wave their approval, the head-to-headmaster barks his commands, the haikusters wear stupid headbands and sometimes, we hold our breath, for the beauty of the poems, and of the moment. Welcome to Head-to Head Haiku: two poets face off and each read one haiku at a time. One poet represents the red, the other the white and they wear headbands to prove it. Three judges select which haiku they like best by waving a read or white flag. The best 3 out of 5 haikus wins a preliminary round. The best 9 out of 17 wins the finals. The action is fact, like a baseball pitch. For our purposes a haiku is a poem of 3 lines. The first line has 5 syllables,, the second has 7, and the third has 5 (that?s why it?s 3 out of 5 to win a round and 9 ourt of 17 in the finals, get it?)