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Oi, please come and compose your Olympics haikus here (we may rustle up a prize for the best)

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HellenicGamesMumsnet · 27/07/2012 13:15

Hello.

Having rofled our way through your Bradley-Wiggins-inspired poetry thread, we thought we'd start the Official Mumsnet Olympics Haiku Thread.

Please do come and post your best haikus about the Games, as and when inspiration strikes.

We may well have a prize or two for the best offerings....

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FasterHigherBeardierDaddyman · 30/07/2012 19:14

The snatch. Clean and jerk.
Can't get it up! Weightlifting;
Sounds filthy don't it!

ApplesinmyPocket · 30/07/2012 16:01

We're told Beach Volley-
ball is all about the skill,
but really it's pants

Scatterplot · 30/07/2012 13:49

Sun-drenched Royal Greenwich
Horses jump through the diamond
Then over the moon

FasterHigherBeardierDaddyman · 30/07/2012 13:32

Can HQ compete?
Submit for random testing
And disqualify!

TheCunningOlympicBMXStunt · 30/07/2012 12:20

It's near diving time
I like the sport, not speedos
Or budgie smugglers

MNHQ
OlympiaMumsnet · 30/07/2012 10:08

A fortnight of sport:
I'm hoping to "medal" in
Sofa Endurance.

ApplesinmyPocket · 30/07/2012 09:35

Dressage. How do you
get a horse to dance and skip?
Ours just eats and shits.

FairPhyllis · 30/07/2012 03:11

Before the swimming
Didn't think it possible
To rhyme with 'Naughtie'

bisjolympics · 29/07/2012 22:32

Look! Beach volleyball
bikini wearing playing
in the cold and dark

domesticslattern · 29/07/2012 21:52

Men in tight swimwear
Volleyballers sport small pants
Mum hogs the TV.

Mr Slattern offers:

After summer rain
Awesome sporting achievements
Sponsored by Samsung.

QuintessentialShadows · 29/07/2012 19:27

Empty seats
Why could I not a ticket
bought for naught

(sort of haiku)

bisjolympics · 29/07/2012 18:43

I think I'm getting addicted to this..

bisjolympics · 29/07/2012 18:42

Oh Jeremy Hunt
Did you throw your ringing bell
Accidentally?

bisjolympics · 29/07/2012 18:30

Hi Olympic Park
I hope you have nicer food
Than Eton Dorney

bisjolympics · 29/07/2012 18:08

Oh my, Tom Daley
You have the most teeny tiny trunks
Not volleyball small

bisjolympics · 29/07/2012 17:28

Venue arrival
Speeding through the scanner checks
With polite courtesy

bisjolympics · 29/07/2012 17:22

On uneven bars
Beth Tweddle you must medal
Or I will be sad

bisjolympics · 29/07/2012 17:21

Adlington can win
But she was quite slow today
Tonight she must speed

bisjolympics · 29/07/2012 17:18

Lizzie you are fab
A silver medal is brill
The first of many

bisjolympics · 29/07/2012 17:17

Wiggins oh wiggy
Why no help for Cavendish?
He is a sad man

QuickQuickGO · 29/07/2012 16:10

On seeing James Bond

The corgi rolled and panted

I would do the same.

ApplesinmyPocket · 29/07/2012 15:02

Among blind archers
The one-eyed have a chance of
Gold. (Mandeville here!)

KatherinaMinola · 29/07/2012 12:22

En route to Stratford
shopping for pants and Play-Doh
we see the torch pass.

FasterHigherBeardierDaddyman · 29/07/2012 09:39

Once in a lifetime
I tell dd. Her response;
I want alphablocks...

FasterHigherBeardierDaddyman · 29/07/2012 07:58

Women's foil fencing
Italians dominant
Gold silver and bronze

(have to say, I was gripped! Hugely exciting as both the final and the bronze match went to sudden death! And they look like they should be in tron!)

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