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 childhood than by having a bunch of strangers write haiku poems about it?
During the last stream, we had our sixth photo haiku-caption challenge. (See the last ones here.)
Since my mother was visiting Japan, I roped her into joining the stream.
For a fun easy stream topic, we did a haiku challenge, and for the photos I chose three embarrassing/adorable pictures from my childhood 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: Eight-month old me in front of the whole turkey
Here’s some of the haiku highlights for this photo:
Biggest turkey in the land
Scott a little prince
That no one understands
-KittyAshley (my pick)
Butterball nice and fat
Thanksgiving is where it’s at
Eating now; no time for chitchat
-capricy (Mom’s pick)
Young Scott at the chair
With turkey he didn’t share
His diaper, beware
-Joe_g89
Scoot caresses his tender hand
Gently on the mahogany table
Whispering to the cooked corpse
-xenonquark996
Photo #2: Three-year-old me painting and peeing my pants
Here’s some of the haiku highlights for this photo:
A swatch of red paint
The color of his passion
Freedom to create
-Joe_g89 (my pick)
An artist steps up
Bathroom demands pushed aside
Focus so intense
-Dragonflyghter (Mom’s pick)
Red streaks, pee streams
I mix yellow with rose to extremes
Now I have orangey dreams!
-capricy
Scoot, thinking he’s the next Picasso
Toils on the easel thinking of avocado
But with the stain of humiliation also
-xenonquark996
Photo #3: Nine-year-old me CRUSHING at Pretty Pretty Princess
Here’s some of the haiku highlights for this photo:
Sparkle, glitz and glam
Scott standing there for the cam
Oh Scott, what a ham
-Dragonflyghter (my pick)
Princess shark doo doo doo doo doo doo
Sweatshirt shark doo doo doo doo…
-capricy (Mom’s pick)
Harry Potter beaded princess
Scott is not afraid
To show his feminine side
-KittyAshley
Those were some great poems! But in the end the winner was…
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…capricy! Congratulations! As their prize, they requested that I draw a character from a story they wrote: Slothie, a demon who is chosen as the recipient of the horrible yearly delivery to their demon clan. That horrible delivery, of course, being a cute puppy.
I think that Slothie the demon and that dog are gonna be the best of friends!
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.
And you missed the stream, you can still watch them on the YouTube channel or watch the full stream reruns.
Hope to see you next time, friend!
