Haikus honor flapjacks

By Sherri Richards, INFORUM
Published February 12, 2011, in the INFORUM - The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead
http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/308383/group/Life/

FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA—In honor of the 53rd annual Kiwanis Pancake Karnival, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. February 12 at the Fargodome, readers were asked to submit their best pancake-themed haiku – a non-rhyming, three-line poem with five, seven and five syllables per line.

We received more than 50 entries and picked the following 10 to publish. Those 10 “winners” each received two tickets to the carnival.

Note: The author’s names are printed as entered on the Areavoices.com comment blog.

Circular griddle
Sausage bumps the tan stacked cakes
On way to table
~ Steve Shark

Ate the batter raw
Quickly, bring me a bucket
It’s coming back up.
~ Eugene Ulsrud

Flapjacks Dangling High
Near My Mouth Dripping Syrup
Come, Flap Jacks, Come Now
~ W.H. Macy

Sitting by grandpa
with my Mickey Mouse pancake,
each moment tastes sweet.
~ Danielle

Fluffy disc of joy
stack’d high atop all its kin
steep in maple pools.
~ James Olson

Flour, sugar, syrup.
Carbs both simple and complex.
Diabetes? YES!
~ someotherguy
 
Round, fluffy goodness,
in sweet, syrup streams of love,
melting in my mouth.
~ Erin Anderson

Golden Fluffy Cake
Waiting For Me On My Plate
Three Bites And It’s Gone
~ Oswald Thomas

Love buckwheat pancakes
Drown them in sweet thick syrup
Then back for seconds
~ Mike S.

Syrupy goodness
Hot and fresh for charity
Beats filling sandbags
~ Blake Warner