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.

Justine and Carrie
Found parenting such a bore
So Mumsnet was born

That better? Stuff the bloody rules though, it said in that link that Haikus are for the Japanese language, for English anything goes! Isn't that right Carol-Ann?

I love you btw!

(Oh it's in the bag!)

The title "Mumsnet"
Sounds cosy and fluffy, no?
Mwah ha ha ha ha ...

Gina Ford, fruit shoots
Pirate sex, moldies, Daily Mail.
Ten years of Mumsnet

Births, deaths, tears and joy
Trolls and chat, friendships galore
Ten years of Mumsnet.

"Experts" beware this
Contentious Little Website
Thinking allowed here!

I don't think poetry's my thing. I'll just slink off back to day job!

(Haikus remind me of Oldham FC's chant though - Meat Pie, Sausage Roll. C'mon Oldham giz a goal!)

Long-distance mothers
Shed their loneliness
Like old skins.

Bee ell doubleyou
Ess ay aitch em, bee eff, etc.
You em en, you learn.

(Or:
blw
sahm, bf, etc.
You mn, you learn).

So mumsnet is ten,
And we must all grab our pens,
to declare our love.

Mooncups and bumsex,
What is life without Mumsnet?
We'd get more work done!

aaaaargh you really need to be fedupwiththis

the OF is like nails on a blackboard

Can I ask one small question? Why is the party on a Tuesday? Wouldn't it be better to have it at the weekend?

Just thinking about if I won (which is doubtful) the costs of childcare for the dc's for during the week.

United we stand
Mothers in global unison
By the power of Mumsnet

Oh I really should stop it now! I don't even think I'd be able to go!

Just log on and post
And you can even say f**k
Then log off,cook tea

I was out with a friend last night who said: "If it wasn't for you, I'd have never heard of a moon-bag!"

I looked

morningpaper, you'll have to try harder than that dear!

Gossip! Chatter! Help?
a rich seam of talking threads
here for all to mine

Just come by yourself Rhubarb

Mine would have to be more of a bag than a cup.

Full moon rage, moon cups rave

Can't be arsed with the rest, I've run out of steam now!

So ten years have passed,
Of flaming, trolling, sharing,
Oh how we have laughed!

Yes but MP, who would take the kids to school and back? You see? Dh is at work from 7am until 5pm.

It took me a while to work out what you were going on about Morningpaper.

I was looking for "of" in my rhymes!

I will see what I can do.

mother with child
opinionated without will
to mingle in baby lounge
found home

No fedupwiththis
Name is already in use
I'm stuck with the 'of'.