MN's 10th Birthday Party competition - write a Haiku about MN and win a golden ticket. To be judged by the Poet Laureate. (Not kidding!)

[JustineMumsnet]

So... it's our tenth birthday and we're having a party to celebrate on March 2nd. And seeing as we can't possibly fit you all in, we thought it would be nice to have a competition to have 10 Mumsnetters (plus partners) come along. As part of the prize we'll put you up in a London hotel, dress you in Boden (natch) and send you out to dinner at Pizza Express too. Full details here.

All you've got to do is to write a haiku (and we know how good you are at those) which sums up Mumsnet. And the 10 best will win. Simples.

And lest you think we might not pick the right winners, we've got Carol-Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate, to judge them for us. So for all those of you who enjoy writing in verse, here's your chance to shine.

Good luck.

Judged by Poet Laureate - not much pressure then!

Mumsnet is ten soon
March 2nd is the big day
So please make note

Its the online spot
where mums, dads, and all meet
Chat, argue, no hugs

Of opinions
there are always so many
and er um bumsex

Actually that is all fairly rubbish. I might have to go away and have another go. Never done a Haiku before, it shows, doesnt it?!

Is there a limit on the number of entries?

Useful Haiku rules/guide thing here

Sausage rolls and fruit shoots,
Relations and elections.
Unreasonable? Me?

Only a person
Who was Unreasonable
Could not love mumsnet

Pretty sure the grammar of that is suspect. Might submit it to Pedants' Corner for in depth critique.

Sausage rolls, fruit shoots;
Relations and elections.
Unreasonable? Me?

the party's on the
second of march but closing
date is march fifteenth

We laugh, cry, and cheer,
In an online sisterhood.
Growing with Mumsnet.

A parent typing:
unspoken emotion shared
by tapping fingers

Ha!

Mumsnet you win the
Top spot in my favourites
Leave you, how could I?

ooh lovely!

At first I struggled
And wondered if I'd done wrong
To add to the world

But one day it changed
When I stumbled exhausted
And found myself here

At first good advice
And then soon late night laughter
Today I call them friends

Unreasonable -
Am I? In celebrating
Virtual nurture.

Hassled: no limit on the number of entries. Haiku away as much as you like.

TigerFeet: congrats on being the first to spot our deliberate mistake and on telling us so in haiku, no less. Your prize is, erm, to bask in the glory of seeing the closing date corrected...

Wisdom and laughter
Lifting the dullest of days
Travel through my screen

tigerfeet wins imo
i cant write haikus and dont undestand what they are tbh

can i come anyway?

As many as we like?

Alone in my house
Fellowship finds me out
A meeting of minds

is it just
writing things
in funny shapes
like
this?

parp fark blardy quiche

fanjo bolleaux AIBU

4 _Chat troll Boden

You help me through -
Some very dark times in life.
You are my sunshine