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.

swelling labouring
nurturing raging on loan
laughing whole me

Found Mumsnet through Times
When struggling with a newborn
Now baby is ten

A thousand smiles
And a collective sigh
Is Mumsnets triumph

DH out at work
DC fast asleep in bed
Addict gets her fix

Google and Wiki
Tell you things you need to know.
At Mumsnet we share.

Just one more press of
'active conversations' and
I am of to bed

No more shall I eat
grapes in the supermarket:
MN guilt consumes

mumsnet
a net of mums
mums in net
mums on net
all net gains
and talk of weans

DH has contributed:

Once I had a wife
Now just the back of a head
No more time to talk.

Gazing from fast train
Rows of strangers' houses flash
Fellow Mumsnetters?

Smug, judgemental, us?
Simply sharing collective
wisdom, virtually.

Just one more press of
'active conversations' and
I am off to bed

With all these women
posting, odds of PMT?
You have been warned.

Mumsnet saved me from
boredom and eased my guilty
tears of parenthood.

Mumnetters are all
parenting gurus but we
give advice for free.

Tears splash on keys. Then
dawn of realisation.
Duped. 'Twas but a troll.

Like snow on stone
Fingers fall free on keys:
I found my niche

Last fifteen minutes:
Am I being Un-reason
Able to blossom

Loud, blunt, witty, clear
All of that and more found here
G'waan post, share your fear

Words on a white screen
illuminate hidden lives
blurry edged snapshots

Haiku is very
restrictive. Mumsnet is not.
You can even swear.

Benign neglect of
kids and husbands, countrywide.
Blame Mumsnet. I do.

Hope I can get time
off work to come to the bash,
and a sitter too.

I never fail to be
impressed at the intellect
of some mumsnetters.

Without mumsnet I
would have been a different
mother. Mostly worse.

How many time do
I say 'I know someone who...',
meaning Mumsnetters?

I would be much more
better at this if I did
not feel bloody sick.

Life involving threads
evolve, tears salved, green shoots of
hope in connection.

the guffalo is ten
mumsnet too
both saved my sanity