You know what’s even more fun than coming up with a haiku to caption a photo with?
Pitting a bunch of people against each other to see who can come up with the best haiku caption for a photo!
During the last stream, we had our second photo haiku-caption challenge. (See the last one here.)
Abbey and I had three photos that we’d taken of pages from a funny Japanese comic book aimed at elementary school boys. It was up to us and chat to caption them with the best haikus possible. After each photo we had a vote for which ones we liked best, and in the end we tallied the votes to find the winner.
Here’s the photos we captioned:
Photo #1: A random face staring down at a kid from the ceiling
Here’s some of the haiku highlights for this photo:
A pretty boy’s face
Something awakens inside!
Puberty has come
-Me
Hungry, net ordered pizza
A large sausage and angel hair pasta
This is not what I expected
-Abbey
A dream realized
A waifu brought to life
But not quite as hoped
-RealSayakaMaizono
Above she watches
The wakeup call for his kind
The hikikomori
-RealSayakaMaizono
Floated head above,
Little boy will have nightmares,
A bad omen of his future wife.
-KittyAshley
Photo #2: A fishy bride
Here’s some of the haiku highlights for this photo:
Trying to decide
Next stream’s topic, my wife says:
“How about a fish?”
-Me
A blushing bride fish
Wild-caught, so lovely and free
Salmon on the menu
-Abbey
Not often you see,
Man and salmon, blessed be.
Kiss the bride for me.
-cozyrogers
“Bawk” the chicken said
“Glub” the salmon fish replied
Match made in heaven
-gameon12321
An aquatic bride
The bear drowns in regret
The salmon suffocates in heartbreak
-Keyossa
Photo #3: A large, muscular cat lying on top of a train
Here’s some of the haiku highlights for this photo:
A man about to jump
Is stopped by a strong cat paw
“No bro, let’s go lift weights.”
-Scott
A god from heaven
Many muscles, so cat, much strength
All aboard the flex express!
-Abbey
The feline
Searches for vengeance
For the scalding bath
-Keyossa
I’m forever scarred
Never again will I see
Cats the same again
-gameon12321
Biceps hard like iron.
Rippled abs like ocean waves.
Pants are for losers.
-cozyrogers
Those were some great poems! But in the end the winner was…
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…a three-way tie between Abbey, cozyrogers, and RealSayakaMaizono! Congratulations to the winners, I’ll just have to try a bit harder next time.
After that chat voted that we write this image prompt created by Tiix: (Click here to see the rabbit samurai image.)
If you want to join us and help write a story by trolling in chat, or share your own writing for feedback, then we’d love to have you. We stream on Twitch every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 7:30pm-11:30pm (U.S. Eastern Standard Time).
And you missed the stream, you can still watch Rubbish to Published, the writing exercises, or the writing prompts on YouTube, or watch the full stream reruns.
Hope to see you next time, friend!