{"id":8352,"date":"2012-02-08T11:14:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T16:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/?p=8352"},"modified":"2012-02-08T16:12:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T21:12:16","slug":"on-lurve-sms-second-annual-valentines-day-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/on-lurve-sms-second-annual-valentines-day-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATED: On Lurve: SM’s Second Annual Valentine’s Day Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAll thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, \u00a0And feed his sacred flame.\u201d Thus wrote Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his 1799 poem \u201cLove.\u201d And what better time to celebrate love in all its shapes, forms and torments than in the days leading up to St. Valentine\u2019s Day? Find your fanciest pens and papers ladies and gentleman, because it\u2019s time for our second annual Valentine\u2019s Day haiku-writing contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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For you poetry noobs, a haiku is a Japanese verse form that employs sentences in the 5-7-5-syllable pattern.\u00a0 Last year, we received a number of heartfelt entries from our readers<\/a>. (And quite a few deliciously cheeky ones. Amitava, I\u2019m looking at your \u201cSize does not matter, you say. This small haiku in place of my \u2014 uhmmm \u2014 love\u201d piece.) Come on, you can do it, mutineers. Give it a shot. Your Valentine will thank you.<\/p>\n\n

Deadline<\/strong><\/em>: Submit all Valentine\u2019s Day haikus in the comments below by 1PM on Friday, February 10. Please include an email address in your comments so that we can notify the winner.<\/p>\n\n

2012 Theme<\/strong><\/em>: Love, ishq, pyar, mohabbatein, kadhal, prema, premam, et. al.<\/p>\n\n

Winner<\/strong><\/em>: Winner will be announced in the comments on Tuesday,\u00a0 February 14, 2012.<\/p>\n\n

Judge<\/strong><\/em>: Amitava Kumar – writer, journalist and professor of English at Vassar college.<\/p>\n\n

Prize<\/strong><\/em>: Winner gets a copy of The 50 Greatest Love Letters of All Time<\/em><\/a>, along with a personalized, handmade Valentine containing their haiku \u2013 mailed to the person of their choice (mom, dad, sis, BFF, bf, gf, yourself, etc.) by Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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