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Email a FriendPosted by sheo on Monday, Dec 15, 2008 11:12 AM (EDT):
All are great. Maybe it’s because I’m pregnant, but a couple of these made me cry!
Haiku of Catholic Living
You decide.
Posted by Danielle Bean in News on Monday, December 15, 2008 9:00 AM
I give up.
I have been going through all the fabulous entries in our Catholic Living Haiku Contest and after a painful elimination process, I have narrowed it down to my top five favorites. But there are so many good ones that I refuse to decide the winner alone.
THANK YOU to everyone who contributed such thoughtful, beautiful, humorous, and entertaining poems!
There’s a lot at stake here. Not only will the winner receive a one year subscription to Faith and Family magazine, he or she will also be awarded Catholic Living Haiku cyber-bragging rights for the foreseeable future ...
I did not look at who wrote them and I won’t post the authors here. Please read the following five entries and give me your vote for the best. You can only vote once and voting will end at midnight tomorrow. I’ll announce the winner on Wednesday.
Here, in no particular order, are the finalists:
A.
She is two, and yet
Salve Regina is sung
Loud, clear, at Wal-mart
B.
It’s ironic that
In getting seven to church
I need Confession
C.
constant companion
we tango through daily chores
baby on my hip
D.
The elevation
Brings transubstantiation.
He is among us.
E.
The baby teethes on
rosary beads. Candlelight
flits on small faces.
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Posted by Analisa Roche on Monday, Dec 15, 2008 11:48 AM (EDT):
Oh my goodness, I don’t blame you for enlisting help! They are all lovely and have such different tones!
Posted by TracyW. on Monday, Dec 15, 2008 6:42 PM (EDT):
I think b is TOO funny, and very real of a Catholic family getting out the door on time for Mass. It gets my vote for realism.
DH votes for E. A Family Home Rosary group was one of the first things we got involved in once we converted to Catholicism, and too fondly he recalled the youngest ds “teething” on Rosary beads.
Great choices!
Posted by YOR Health on Monday, Dec 22, 2008 7:55 PM (EDT):
I absolutely love E.
Do you mind if I post it on my website with a credit to your website?
Posted by Sister Mary, RSM on Tuesday, Dec 23, 2008 4:20 AM (EDT):
I love the imagery in “C.” It reminds me that just as the mother lovingly tangos through her daily routine with baby on her hip, so I want to tango through every moment of my life with God in my soul. When Love is present, even chores become a tango!
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