They say it’s best to embrace your past, learn from it, and move on to live your best life.
So what better way to embrace your cringe-worthy past than by having a bunch of strangers write haiku poems about it?
During the last stream, we had our fifth photo haiku-caption challenge. (See the last ones here.)
Since my college friend/roommate Ali and his wife Rohma were visiting Japan, I roped them into joining the stream. We did it from their hotel room, somehow rigging the setup to work in their tiny room using a food tray and a pair of jeans.
For a fun easy stream topic, we did a haiku challenge, and for the photos I chose three funny/embarrassing pictures involving the three of us for chat write haiku about. After each photo we voted which were best, and at the end the winner got a fabulous prize!
You can see the entire challenge here complete with glorious,
colorful commentary, or scroll down for highlights.
Here’s the photos we captioned:
Photo #1: Myself, Ali, and my wife Abbey cosplaying as the Harry Potter trio
(Be sure to watch the video to get the story behind this one!)
Here’s some of the haiku highlights for this photo:
aluminum wands
with silvery magic spells
the tin-foil wizards
-buttermilks
The old man who lived
I would say the boy who lived
But time is too cruel
-iwritegooder
Going out with friends
Times you want to remember
Just not photographed
-gameon12321
“We’re off to Hogwarts.
Said I’d kill to go, and now…
My hair dyed with blood.”
-cozyrogers
Photo #2: Rohma and Ali cosplaying as songs with a… horrifying baby???
(Again, be sure to watch the video to get the story behind this one!)
Here’s some of the haiku highlights for this photo:
Queen, Drake and baby
Started from the bottom and
Currently still here
-iwritegooder
Baby Donald Trump
Grabbing the queen’s badonkadonk
That can only mean one thing.
-capricy
“Do you remember,
The fifth of November?
When I woke up like this.”
-cozyrogers
Wow, Drake changed a lot
Ali is a phone
Without a phone case
-Yosh1
Photo #3: Myself, Ali, Gloves, Abbey and our friend
Ed tackling a Ben and Jerry’s Vermontster
(You DEFINITELY want to watch the video to get the story behind this one!)
Here’s some of the haiku highlights for this photo:
Hardcore carbivores
We adore this monster chore
‘Til clogged-up backdoor…
-JebusDota
Mountains of creamed ice
Every spoonful a delight
Don’t let the brainfreeze bite
-gameon12321
The modern Last Supper
Eating and beating the Vermontster
But did we really win??
-capricy
Scooping
Later pooping
A bowl of melting mess
-Justintoons
Too much of good stuff.
This is what chins are made of.
Threw up the whole tub.
-JebusDota
Those were some great poems! But in the end the winner was…
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
…iwritegooder! Congratulations! As their prize, they requested that I draw myself with several chins, writing a terrible prologue to a story, with a smelly shoe in the background..
No one can ever say I don’t put all my effort forward
into making chat’s dreams come true!
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!
Scott Wilson is the author of the novel Metl: The ANGEL Weapon,
forthcoming March 2019.