Write Haiku for the 2010 FIFA World Cup

Ok this might sound a bit weird, but it could also be cool – like sweet and sour, you know – so why don’t you write haiku for the 2010 World Cup?

Most people don’t really think of soccer an poetry in the same thought cloud, but the Football Haiku World Project says:

“we want to publish beautiful poetry written by you to accompany the beautiful game. Please do not worry if you do not consider yourself to be a writer or a poet: the beauty of haiku is its simplicity, universality and flexibility. Whoever you are around the world, we would love to hear your voice in haiku form.”

To send them football haiku written by you, please contact enter.haiku@gmail.com

You can find the Haiku World Cup Project at Facebook or Twitter or YouTube. You can also join the Facebook Fanpage

So What is Haiku?

Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry. In Japanese, haiku are traditionally printed in a single vertical line, while haiku in English usually appear in three lines, to parallel the three phrases of Japanese haiku.

Haiku World Cup will show you how to get started: “Firstly, we would like to offer the following poem, written by Adriana Piccardo, to the memory of the World Cup opera singer Siphiwo Ntshebe, who has just passed away at the age of 34:

We will miss your voice

Should have been in the party

Siphiwo Ntshebe

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