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A Year of Vampires: The Haiku Contest

by SB Sarah | October 25, 2007 | Thursday at 8:00 pm | 58 Comments

Vampire haiku:
It’s like man-titty haiku
with sharper nipples.

I have dragged author Jennifer Rardin over to this here site, probably kicking and screaming but it’s virtual so maybe she’s got a big flamethrower aimed at me or something, in order to announce a really kickass contest. Originally I suggested that I’d give away a shiny new copy of Once Bitten, Twice Shy since I have two, but then Alex, Jennifer’s publicist, sweetened the pot and said, ‘How about a Year of Vampires?’ And I exploded with jealousy and said, ‘Hell yeah!’

Here’s the deal: in the comments to this entry today until 4:00 pm Pacific Time, post a haiku (up to two 5-7-5 stanzas, please) of your own creation about vampire heroes. Hate them? Love them? Feel the need for raunchy vamp haiku? Bring it on, and post it here.

Jennifer will judge the best one, and Orbit books will send that lucky winner A Year of Vampires - every book in Rardin’s series as they come out for the next year. That would be Once Bitten, Twice Shy, which is out now, Another One Bites the Dust, which comes out in December, and Biting the Bullet , which comes out in February of 2008. The Jaz Parks series is a five-book series, so the last two would be part of the deal as well. Not bad, eh?

So - bring it on! Post your poetic tributes to the vampire hero here, and Jennifer will be judging your creative efforts.

Thanks and graceful curtsies to Alex Lencicki, Orbit Books, Jennifer Rardin, and vampire heroes for being every-damn-where.

Filed: Go Ahead, Win Some Shit

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  1. Vix626 said on 10.25.07 at 08:11 PM • [comment link]

    Vampries have parts
    That are long and very white
    And I don’t mean teeth

  2. smartass bitchipants said on 10.25.07 at 08:20 PM • [comment link]

    I am a vampire
    My big part is not so white
    You want to taste it?

  3. Katie Dickson said on 10.25.07 at 08:22 PM • [comment link]

    Stop staring at
    That juicy young thing and
    Bite me already

    Undead you may be
    But I bet I have enough
    Blood for both of us

  4. SamG said on 10.25.07 at 08:25 PM • [comment link]

    A vampire bites me
    I come twice as he does it
    Come back, I have more

    Damn, now I’m one too
    I want a man titty slave
    Where shall I bite him?

  5. Gwynnyd said on 10.25.07 at 08:37 PM • [comment link]

    Fiends? Fangs nibble necks
    Head turned, long soft throat exposed
    Skin broken to bliss

    Friends?  Futile struggle
    Hot, vile eyes gloat as blood drains
    A sneer, mocking life

    Gwynnyd

  6. djh said on 10.25.07 at 08:39 PM • [comment link]

    Bite me in moonlight
    Sorry I just ate garlic
    To bad hungry again

  7. HeatherK said on 10.25.07 at 08:42 PM • [comment link]

    Fangs erupt
    In carnal anticipation
    Eternal embrace

    ~ * ~

    Joined as one
    Two souls collide
    Crimson ties

  8. Cori said on 10.25.07 at 08:45 PM • [comment link]

    “Come get bit!” they said
    Endless sex, days free for soaps
    Plus no morning breath.

    Hickies getting bad
    Anemia as STD?
    Damn your eyes, Anne Rice.

  9. Teddy Pig said on 10.25.07 at 08:46 PM • [comment link]

    Must think emo… Dark Dark, I call upon the power of Goth… yes! yes! Black Lipstick! I feel like Robert Smith! Fassssscccccinaaaaation Streeeeeet…

    Dark lovers passion
    Fangs pierce deep into my soul
    All is fading now

  10. smartass bitchipants said on 10.25.07 at 08:59 PM • [comment link]

    so sick of vampires
    i just might puke puke puke puke
    i just want to puke

    ~~~
    (all the same, teddy’s poem is beautiful…)

  11. Amy said on 10.25.07 at 09:08 PM • [comment link]

    Spikey Fangs
    Ripped abs and hard cocks
    Suck what?

  12. Sarah Frantz said on 10.25.07 at 09:09 PM • [comment link]

    Big bad vampire males
    Angsty emo tears, oh my!
    Gotta love ‘em, true?

  13. Teddy Pig said on 10.25.07 at 09:12 PM • [comment link]

    LKH no more
    Remember Anita Blake
    The sound of sucking

  14. Kaite said on 10.25.07 at 09:17 PM • [comment link]

    I’m horrible with Haiku, but here are my efforts:

    Blood all around me,
    Waiting for sweet surrender
    I lie in his arms.

    **********

    Vampire lover boy—
    Anita Blake, who’s that b*tch?
    Forget her, take me!

  15. Rachel B. said on 10.25.07 at 09:24 PM • [comment link]

    Oh, golly! What a field of contenders! Let’s see. . .

    Stalking silly girls
    In darkness, ending their lives
    I miss eating fruit

    Should have worked out more
    Now deathless and eternal
    doughy midsection

  16. Chelsea said on 10.25.07 at 09:26 PM • [comment link]

    Sex with the undead
    Makes for pleasure all night long
    And tastes like iron

  17. Darlene Marshall said on 10.25.07 at 09:26 PM • [comment link]

    Vampire mantitty
    Cold white flesh makes me quiver
    Like type A? Bite me!

  18. Stephanie said on 10.25.07 at 09:27 PM • [comment link]

    You bit me, so hot
    Now we’re bound—eternally
    Fuckity fuck fuck


    You kiss my bite, baby
    Now let’s go find some dinner
    Tasty tots, perhaps?

  19. lisabea said on 10.25.07 at 09:31 PM • [comment link]

    Hard drinking lover
    with sharp pointy teeth and black
    leather pants, you dig?

  20. scigirl2525 said on 10.25.07 at 09:35 PM • [comment link]

    My neck he doth prick
    But I am juicy elsewhere
    Come, I want some dick!

  21. Jaci Burton said on 10.25.07 at 09:41 PM • [comment link]

    Picky about vamps
    Before I sink into them
    They gotta have teeth

  22. Jackie said on 10.25.07 at 09:57 PM • [comment link]

    What I want to know
    Is when the vampire men
    Said “Emo is cool”?

    If my bloodsucker
    Always cries more than I do,
    Pass me the garlic.

  23. Sam said on 10.25.07 at 10:01 PM • [comment link]

    Immortal villian
    Bite clouds your mind with darkness
    Blood drips down neck

  24. Invisigoth said on 10.25.07 at 10:04 PM • [comment link]

    Fingers entwined and
    Legs wrapped ‘round your waist.  Teeth at
    Your throat.  Impale me!

  25. Jackie said on 10.25.07 at 10:07 PM • [comment link]

    ((Can we post more than one entry? If so…))

    The sexy male vamp
    Falls for the all-powerful
    Magic va-jay-jay.

    Much sexxin’ ensues
    The blood and man-juice are thick:
    All hail the true mate!

  26. Carrie Lofty said on 10.25.07 at 10:07 PM • [comment link]

    My vampire lover,
    Afraid I’ll never see you—
    I work the day shift.

  27. Angelina said on 10.25.07 at 10:09 PM • [comment link]

    ok my poetry sucks (lol)!

    Darkness falls, I wait
    My vampire will soon be here
    I can has hickey?

  28. Vix626 said on 10.25.07 at 10:17 PM • [comment link]

    I’ve got another one, a series even.

    Cheer up emo kid
    Fake vampire fangs aren’t cool
    Real deal is better

    Black clothes and make-up
    Do not make you a vampire
    You must be undead

    The angst and dark pain
    Is a very good start though
    Next step, blood sucking

    I like this game.

  29. Stephanie said on 10.25.07 at 10:19 PM • [comment link]

    Dracula, Jean-Claude
    Edward, Vayl, Nick Knight, Kisten—
    All are sexy beasts.

  30. Cathy in AK said on 10.25.07 at 10:26 PM • [comment link]

    Oh, blood sucking man
    Your angst is a real downer
    Please, go get some sun

  31. Emeline Green said on 10.25.07 at 10:35 PM • [comment link]

    His eyes speak “Undead”;
    His mouth is crimson; his pants—
    Nosferatu Lives!

  32. Castiron said on 10.25.07 at 10:41 PM • [comment link]

    If I loved undead,
    I would lose my best heat source;
    Undead skin is cold.

    I don’t have to fear
    When my boyfriend bites my neck;
    He ain’t got no fangs.

  33. Adler said on 10.25.07 at 10:41 PM • [comment link]

    Whoa, these came out more emo than I anticipated! 

    **

    He is old pennies
    and undead dust in my mouth:
    Haemovore fetish.

    **

    Moonlight birthed your sin,
    sunshine immolates my shame:
    Liminal outcasts. 

    **

    And an extra for the lols, not to be judged . . .

    Vampire boyfriend,
    please find an undead dentist.
    I’m sick of “love bites.”

  34. Emeline Green said on 10.25.07 at 10:45 PM • [comment link]

    Cowboys, shieks and Dukes
    Are antique heros. Give me
    Wang Everlasting.


    ::longer38! OMG

    ::

  35. bam said on 10.25.07 at 10:54 PM • [comment link]

    Oh lame emo boy
    Trent Reznor would kick your ass
    Don’t wear manliner.

    my spamcatcher is: COLD83

    cold… like a vampire’s undead flesh.

  36. Darlene Marshall said on 10.25.07 at 10:55 PM • [comment link]

    Dang, I don’t envy the judges of this contest!  Too many wonderful entries!

  37. E.D'Trix said on 10.25.07 at 11:02 PM • [comment link]

    Oh hey, sweet thang, I
    got your wooden stake right here…
    Get lost. Vampires suck.

  38. bettie said on 10.25.07 at 11:03 PM • [comment link]

    When it comes to international poetic styles with high potential for satire, and limited syllable counts, I prefer limericks to haiku (it’s so much easier to write about Nantucket). But I’ll do anything for free books.  Here’s my stab at haiku:

    Mate!” “Fate!” “I’m a beast”
    Vampire conversation is
    Limited, at least.

    Sure, he is high strung
    But his great salvation is
    He’s rich and well hung.

    ________________________
    And, here’s an extra written in my preferred mode of poetic expression:

    There once was a moody young fellow
    Who wore black and was never mellow
    He got bit by a vamp,
    Then sucked blood like a champ
    Shouting “Mate!” when a girl waved hello.

  39. SonjaRose said on 10.25.07 at 11:11 PM • [comment link]

    Poetry was never a stong suit.

    ma petite, ma petite, ugh
    words that make me look for a stake
    Angel was way hot, though

  40. Charlene said on 10.25.07 at 11:15 PM • [comment link]

    Broody, moody, pale,
    Half a pound of eyeliner?
    That ain’t no vampire.

    Vampires are kick-ass.
    They crave blood, not attention.
    (They crave virgins too.)

    Virgins, listen up:
    Perhaps if you’re fortunate
    You’ll get sucked by one.

    Vampires like the blood.
    Equal opportunity
    suckers too. Oh yes.

    Oh, Mr. Vampire!
    Please, show us your long white - fangs.
    We all love long things.

  41. Dayle said on 10.25.07 at 11:24 PM • [comment link]

    One is a vampire
    The other is a slayer
    Whedon did it best.

  42. AElfwyn said on 10.25.07 at 11:24 PM • [comment link]

    Gold eyes gleam darkness
    I wait to breathe death, throat bared
    In you I see light


    +++++++++++++++++


    Soul-less wanderer
    I give you my blood, my life
    you make me your own

  43. cap said on 10.25.07 at 11:27 PM • [comment link]

    I wait, Constantine
    For your return. …Now where’s
    The bloody sequel?

    *

    Eric, Edward, Con –
    Why can’t real men be like them?
    Such pesky details.

    *

    But answer me this:
    Must you really bite my neck?
    I gush blood each month!

    *

    (The first one is a response to Robin McKinley’s [brilliant] novel, Sunshine.)

  44. Rosemary said on 10.25.07 at 11:31 PM • [comment link]

    Blood, love, lust, fear, sex.
    Black and white words on a page.
    Makes me feel naughty.

  45. Holly said on 10.25.07 at 11:34 PM • [comment link]

    I’m fair-skinned Irish
    You’re Un-dead and pasty white
    Which one needs a tan?

    I never thought I’d
    Learn to love the benefits
    of garlic powder

    Old cliche story
    Same old characters written
    Vampires get old

  46. Kristin said on 10.25.07 at 11:38 PM • [comment link]

    Much better to have
    A hot hero who sucks blood
    Than one who just sucks

  47. darlynne said on 10.25.07 at 11:45 PM • [comment link]

    Haven’t done this since high school and, well, here are my official entries:

    A pulse, one beat more
    Mine, sweet lover of dark blood
    Good to the last drop
    ~~~~~
    I see you, lover,
    At dusk, not dawn, when you strike
    With your teeth for blood

    ~~~~~

    But this, THIS, has taken on a life of its own:

    Awash in anguish
    Too many rabid fan girls
    Mourn sullen vampires

    Only two stanzas
    Must follow bitchery rules
    I am stuck on suck

    Bitches, I can’t stop
    The rest of my days spent in
    Vampire haiku hell!

  48. Cat Marsters said on 10.25.07 at 11:53 PM • [comment link]

    I like vampires
    Especially when
    They fight back a bit

  49. Ann M. said on 10.26.07 at 12:10 AM • [comment link]

    A Haiku I wrote while waiting for Lover Unbound to be released:

    Vampires – Family
    Bound together by honor
    Black Dagger Brothers

  50. darlynne said on 10.26.07 at 12:13 AM • [comment link]

    Watch death unfold as
    Its own act of creation.
    Your blood is now mine.

    ~~~~~

    I thought you were cool.
    What is that stuck in your teeth?
    Vampires need floss, too.

    ~~~~~

    Srsly, I’m trying to cut back, but there’s still 47 minutes until curtain call. This contest has triggered a latent or heretofore unknown jones for haiku. I may have to start my own 12-step program.

  51. iffygenia said on 10.26.07 at 12:16 AM • [comment link]

    Hey!  It’s so not 4:00pm Pacific Time yet!

    Tom Cruise is so much
    Better with fangs and evil
    Grin - bring it back, please!

    Bela Lugosi
    Was cool even in capes, and
    Occult, not a cult.

  52. wendy said on 10.26.07 at 12:18 AM • [comment link]

    I wanna vote!
    Can I say lovelysalome and Angelina made me guffaw? I can has hickey?
    Special mention for the rebel Bettie and her limerick.

  53. KarenF said on 10.26.07 at 12:25 AM • [comment link]

    Ack! My mother schemed,
    Found “nice” Jewish boy for me:
    Schlomo, the vampire.

    No crucifix-up,
    This deathless schmuck won’t go.  Must
    be staken, not Star’d.

  54. Shannon said on 10.26.07 at 12:41 AM • [comment link]

    Not exactly a poetry master, but I figured I’d try

    Everything with vamps -
    Teeth, Problems, love staff, ego, emo -
    Is ginormous. Ouch.

  55. alia said on 10.26.07 at 12:43 AM • [comment link]

    (12 minutes! 12 minutes until 4 pm pacific time!)

    I just want the prize:
    Sink my teeth into a book,
    Much better than flesh.

  56. Abney Wells said on 10.26.07 at 12:45 AM • [comment link]

    Desire draws me near
    Ravished by moonlit cold hands
    Liberated wish

  57. alia said on 10.26.07 at 12:46 AM • [comment link]

    ergh. i can do maths, too. *smacks head* sorry. (18 minutes. it was 18 minutes when i started. curses.)

  58. Michelle, the Diva said on 10.26.07 at 12:46 AM • [comment link]

    Blood bathing a tongue
    Better than rich, dark Merlot
    Scarlet drunkenness

    Biting thirst that kills
    Or brings the life eternal
    Which one will it be?

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