Haiku Challenge

Here's what you do:

Using only the photo above for inspiration, write a Haiku in the comments of this post by Wednesday, October 18 at 12:00 pm Eastern.

What's in it for you?
You will win the warm fuzzy feeling of having been selected as...the winner! I will even have a professional editor and writer on board for the selection process! Good luck!

If you're new to Haiku read on...
Haiku is a poetic form and a type of poetry from the Japanese culture. Haiku combines form, content, and language in a meaningful, yet compact form. Haiku poets, which you will soon be, write about everyday things. Many themes include nature, feelings, or experiences. Usually they use simple words and grammar. The most common form for Haiku is three short lines. The first line usually contains five (5) syllables, the second line seven (7) syllables, and the third line contains five (5) syllables. Haiku doesn't rhyme. A Haiku must "paint" a mental image in the reader's mind. This is the challenge of Haiku - to put the poem's meaning and imagery in the reader's mind in only 17 syllables over just three (3) lines of poetry!

Read more about Haiku on Wikepedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku#Examples