Alright, here’s the first in a string of contests this week, kicking things off with an opportunity to win a copy of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: The Making of the Motion Picture,” a beautiful coffee table book with lovely images throughout in the vein of Taschen collectibles. Have a look at the Amazon page here. We’ve got two to give away.
I wracked my brain over the best way to go here. I didn’t want another boring caption contest, so I figured I’d get abstract. HAIKU CONTEST! Give us your best haiku poem on the perils of aging backwards in the comments section below. The two best haikus take the prizes. (And yes, multiple entries are acceptable.) Make sure you’re singed in with a valid email address so we can notify the winners swiftly, and stay tuned later this week for more contests and giveaways.
(FYI, haiku contest idea stolen outright from Sasha Stone and Awards Daily.)
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87 responses to “CONTEST: Win a beautiful ‘Benjamin Button’ coffee table book with your best haiku poem!”
backwards it’s glaring
forwards we only glance the
choreography
whoops. slight change!
backwards it’s glaring
forwards we only glance it
choreography
here i am, eighty
here i am, twenty seven
i know my limit
Counter-clockwise hands
Fret not: memories transcend
Chariot welcomed
Growing younger, woe
Shunned by friends and foes, the pain!
No one understands
——-
Wond’ring ’bout the day
When judgement fades and time heals
Will it never come?
——-
Younger and younger
Time unrelenting, cripples
Savor these moments…
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For why am I cursed?
‘Tis so dreadful, aging back
What is wrong with me?
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Time always forward
As I travel in reverse
Stuck here, alone, cold
——-
Am I different?
Aging backwards or forwards,
We all must die, no?
——-
Am I so unique?
Time flees, memories remain
Such is life, no?
——-
Clock moves in reverse
Still, life weighed not in minutes
But in memories
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Time is not my friend
Leaves me out of sync, alone
Love passes me by
Wrinkles disappear
Your eyesight becomes clearer
Still, you pee in pants
edit:
Am I so unique?
Time flees, memories remain
And such is life, no?
Life is Linear,
It comes and goes with all change
All we have is hope.
Welcome to the world
You can never get it back
So goodnight, poem
——————–
What is the meaning
of a lonely life, whose love
can’t ever be shared?
Doomed by uniqueness
To live life backwards; while love
Beckons me cruelly.
People come and go
Parents, lovers, friends and me
Left to watch them die
My age decreases
Youth enhances, I reflect
When will this make sense?
A burden is me
Imposed upon all I love
Try to wander, lost
Sweet mortality
Acquired pallet not had
Taste always different
Circumstances trap
Nothing is seen through my eyes
Like a caged monkey
Life ticking backwards,
When twelve is the beginning-
What comes after one?
Here are 17 Haiku’s written backwards, with forwards translations. It took a while, but 17 seperate Haiku’s makes sense since each one is 17 syllables.
,I sdrawkcab nevE
,efil sdrawkcab ym nialpxe t’naC
.tnereffid ma I
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Even backwards I,
Can’t explain my backwards life,
I am different.
______________________________
,ereh drawrof seog emiT
,llits sdrawkcab snur efil ym tuB
.efil ym si nwonknU
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Time goes forward here,
But my life runs backwards still,
Unknown is my life.
______________________________
,nekatsim ega yM
,ma I sa dlo sa ma I
.kool I sa ton tuB
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My age mistaken,
I am as old as I am,
But not as I look.
______________________________
,tnereffid eb oT
,gniga ma I yaw eht sI
.efil ym si ti tuB
______________________________
To be different,
Is the way I am aging,
But it is my life.
______________________________
,uoy sa eb t’nac I
,dlihc a tsuj eb ot dlo ooT
.tulda na ton tuB
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I can’t be as you,
Too old to be a child,
But not an adult.
______________________________
,dik a nehw nur t’naC
,elbuort ym drawkcab gingA
.tluda deppart ,dik A
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Can’t run when a kid,
Aging backward my trouble,
A kid, trapped adult.
______________________________
,esac suoiruc A
,sdrawkcab gniga ereh eb oT
.ega ym erus reveN
______________________________
A curious case,
To be here aging backwards,
Never sure my age.
______________________________
,dlrow eht gniees m’I
,yaw eno ni em dnuora nuR
.tsol ma I ,ylnO
______________________________
I’m seeing the world,
Run around me in one way,
Only, I am lost.
______________________________
,evol rof gnikool nehW
,rebmemer syawla tsum I
.regnuoy gnitteg m’I
______________________________
When looking for love,
I must always remember,
I’m getting younger.
______________________________
,tluda – ma I ereH
,kcolc eht hctaw I seye s’dlihc hguorhT
.esrever ni gnihctaW
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Here I am – adult,
Through child’s eyes I watch the clock,
Watching in reverse.
______________________________
,regnuoy gnitteg
,redlo gnitteg efil gniviL
.dlihc esiw a eb oT
______________________________
I’m getting younger,
Living life getting older,
To be a wise child.
______________________________
,sediced ees ew tahW
,efil ruo sa dlo sa era eW
.rettam t’nseod egA
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What we see decides,
We are as old as our life,
Age doesn’t matter
______________________________
,weiv efil ekildlihc A
,tluda yllacisyhp hguohT
.ma I ,dlihc a sA
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A childlike life view,
Though physically adult,
As a child, I am.
______________________________
,dlihc a won ton m’I
,tluda em ekam ereh sraey yM
.sdrawkcab ega I ,teY
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I’m not now a child,
My years here make me adult,
Yet, I age backwards.
______________________________
,esrever ni efil htiW
,nac uoy taht lla od t’nac I
.leef I noisufnoC
______________________________
With life in reverse,
I can’t do all that you can,
Confusion I feel.
______________________________
,nottuB nimajneB
,ecno ta sdrawrof dna sdrawkcaB
.drawrof snur llits emiT
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Benjamin Button,
Backwards and forwards at once,
Time still runs forward.
______________________________
,drawrof snur emit ehT
,si efil sdrawkcab ym sdrawroF
.sdrawkcab ega I roF
______________________________
The time runs forward,
Forwards my backwards life is,
For I age backwards.
______________________________
to grow young again
and grasp the magic moment
of the first movie
Benjamin Button
came down the roadway of life
the wrong direction.
The pathway of life
is one way only, but Ben
traveled the wrong way
Benjamin loves her
Daisy loves him, but they can’t
live together ever.
If I was born old
and died young, I would live life
to the max anyways.
Aging backwards can
be a curse, but sometimes it
can be a blessing.
Benjamin Button
is much much better than Gump
Eric Roth redeemed
To be born old aged
and get younger throughout life
can be good and bad.
Even when living
life backwards, one can still get
life’s lessons all along.
When life hands you a
lemon, make lemonade, not
poison for your mind.
Heading backwards through
life can be confusing, but
life’s hard anyway.
The life I must live,
While backwards, is the same as
Seeing through your eyes.
redundancy after redundancy
is Benjamin button
until the end
Sadness Envelops
Life Disappearing Like Dusk
Who Will Love Me Now?
How sad life would be
To die without the chance to
Reminisce of Youth
A movie like this
I’m dying to see so soon
is not yet released
Wow, haiku explosion. Here are mine.
1. After all the cups,
The stories, and our great love
Will you remember?
2. Happy is the man
Whose days are spent, with an odd
And beautiful end.
3. What would it be like?
To die in a lover’s arms
Young, but old as well?
4. When the world looks far,
Displeased, it won’t understand
What you were here for.
5. Is it truly well,
To love and then to have, a
Disconcerting death?
6. She looks away, and
In her eyes, I see, there is
Nothing else for me.
7. Pills, bills, our shared rings
Some of my favorite things
…Are they really mine?
8. Face like an angel’s
Own, but mind like a whisper,
Where does this life go?
9. Lost is this old soul
Who comes and goes, and finds that
All is one is all.
10. What if winter comes,
In the spring of discontent?
What then, happens next?
11. Wanderer, you are
A mark of our desires, and
And its ironies.
12. Will you want to look
Like Achilles, but forget
The name you’ve been given?
13. To give much to youth
When it has its own follies
Is folly itself.
14. Age, just a number
Time, just a reminder, of
Death on your old door.
15. Why does man like, to
Hate today and press rewind
When life has been kind?
Last one, I promise:
16. When does life begin,
At sixteen or at sixty?
Confused, please help me.
Forced sacrifice, yet
Moving still toward Daisy’s arms
Curious indeed
FYI, this contest will close tomorrow, Wednesday, at 12:00am. Midnight tonight, basically. So get those entries in!
Some things too early
And others too late. This line
is in the wrong film.
Birth as cold as death.
You never know what’s coming.
Love renewed as spring.
When you see the end
Death becomes the beginning
Threading life with love
Life starts at the end
Be brave to see how it starts
Live until your born
Living life backwards
Oscars before Golden Globes
P.S: bet on Milk!
Went through puberty
With squat to look forward to
Really sucked big time
Born old, growing young
When’s it legal to bang Cate?
I am so confused
what a true blessing
going back to re-read all
in contention posts
1.
As time goes, I wilt
Skewed time dimension it is
My kid calls me son!
2.
Meet you yesterday!
said I, still in a mild shock
confusion reigns on.
3.
Strange feeling, it is
Time in x, and I grow y,
not above, below!
(Just in case, it wasn’t obvious, x and y refer to the x-y axes in a graphical figure)
When looks do not mind
And life reverses its time
It could still be kind
At least Daisy got
to hold him, close the cycle,
like two hummingbirds.
I feel like I’m old,
but I’m barely four feet tall.
And Ma never comes.
The clock spun backwards,
but I didn’t feel a thing.
Just darker…darker…
Contest closed. Thanks everyone!
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