Last Chance! Submit Your Hunger Games Haiku to Win Tickets to the Premiere
Hunger Games fans, here's your chance to be among the first to see Lionsgate's highly anticipated YA novel adaptation -- Movieline is giving away a pair of tickets to the Los Angeles premiere of The Hunger Games, starring Jennifer Lawrence as teen warrior Katniss Everdeen, based on the novels by Suzanne Collins. To decide our winner, we're holding a Cornucopia of words: A Hunger Games Haiku contest! Channel your inner mockingjay and get to composing in the comments below. [UPDATE: Thanks to all who played -- and there were a lot of you! Submissions will be closed at 5PT/8ET.]
To celebrate the 50-day countdown to the Hunger Games nationwide release on March 23 (Twitter hashtag #HUNGERGAMES50), Movieline's Hunger Games Haiku contest will close February 22 at 5pm PT/8pm ET, so make sure to enter with your best, most inspired Hunger Games-themed haiku. Winners will be announced on February 29.
[Browse Movieline's Hunger Games cast gallery here]
In order to be eligible, entries must follow these guidelines:
- Haiku entries must follow the 5-7-5 syllable format (otherwise that ain't a haiku, duh).
- Entries must be original writings. Write it in Katniss's voice! As an ode to the series! Compose a ditty about pretty baker's sons! Run wild with it!
- Entrants must be 18 years of age and must be able to attend the premiere in Los Angeles at the Nokia Live on March 12, 2012.
- Entrants must register with their email address in order to be contacted if selected.
- Only one entry per person.
Now remember, candidates: Entries will be judged by Movieline's editors so put your best haiku forward! Elegance, wit, and razor-sharp concision are key, along with a healthy dose of Hunger Games knowledge. Wow us, and as always -- may the odds be ever in your favor.
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They took Rue and Prim,
For this I knew I must win.
The baker and me.
Love for another
These games will start a new time
The girl on fire
Life was so simple
Change was inevitable
Now to choose one love
They’ll never own me.
I’ll fight to rebel, survive,
For the bakers son.
In love with two boys.
I defy the capitol,
Fighting to survive.
Is it real love
The capitol I defied
Representing change
They think they can control us
but with hushed whispers
the mockingjay will open its wings and fly.
The boy with the bread,
Who I’ll never stop owing,
saved my life again.
Absent affections
Survive amongst Snow, coal, odds
Mockingjay victory
Sacrifice is key
In a world of death and hate
Love means victory
I blaze a beacon
A mocking hope masked by birds
Three fingers, kiss, raise.
I hear the four notes
Next I hear a child's scream
Rue I am coming
Their eyes burn through me,
Fire incinerates my flesh,
I will not succumb.
Katniss on fire
Berries defy at the games
Will Snow be falling?
I stand paralyzed
as my sister's name is picked
I must volunteer
Like beating twenty three
Haikus are quite difficult
Only one will survive
FOR PRIM I MUST WIN
AND FOR ALL FROM DISTRICT TWELVE
LET THE GAMES BEGIN
Though covered by Snow
With the speed of an arrow
The mockingjay flies
My song was four notes,
But it's already too late.
Katniss, sing to me.
Drought Entangles Me
Tracker Jackers Posion Me
I live on and win
One percents enslave.
Twelve districts hunger to fight.
Katniss will lead them?
Peeta short, Gale tall.
Which to love, which to just use?
If I live, I'll choose.
When they called Prim's name
I heard it, and died inside.
I will volunteer.
I did love my life
Until they ruined it all.
I fight for my life.
As District Twelve waits
A precious name is announced
And I cry out, "Me!"
Snow hunts the song bird,
Frosting my heart in ashes.
When will it break me?
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