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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Nightlock to our lips
You and I were born to die
and defy the odds
Overwhelmed by him
He's willing to die for me
sacrificial love
Entering the Games
I didn't know the outcome
Now I'm almost home
Katniss you must sing
even the birds stop, listen
Fire is catching!
Girl on fire, you sing
All districts rise to your song
Panem burns for you
Twenty four tributes
One gets the glory for life
I must be that one
Odds in whose favor?
You'll rue the day you first saw
Katniss Everdeen.
Seventy Five years
Be the Mockingjay I will
Hunt or be hunted
I will sing for those
Who are not Capitol owned
For a better life
Rue I see you there
caught in a trap, don't despair
my revenge will be so sweet
Rue I see you there
caught in a trap, don't despair
my vengeance is sweet.
Nightlock, so deadly,
Clutched in our hands, we deny
Them their lone winner.
Katniss Has The Odds
She Will Fight You To The Death
Peeta’s Faith Reigns True
Her arrow soars high
Carries with it flames of wrath
Rue, always in youth
The Girl on Fire
I'm told to be the strongest
Snow is a Bastard
Katniss is my name
Fighting til the end we shall
Freeing the districts
Steady the arrow
Hide the fear on my mind
Kill the childhood dream
Katniss Everdeen
Odds never in her favor
Survives, regardless
Lovely Capital
Delicious food and drink
Such a clever game
*CORRECTION* ^^
Lovely Capital
Such delicious food and drink
What a clever game
Song of the forest,
Her heart sings for another.
Capitol fury.
So easy to hate
A breeze to pretend to love
Peeta I'm so sorry
Must keep him alive
Peeta the boy with the bread
I will die instead
will it ever end?
the war is never over
the mockingjay cries
as star-crossed lovers
Peeta and I will pretend
when our two hearts mend
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