Haiku Contest: We Have a Winner!

I tallied the final votes in the DARK SHADOWS HAIKU CONTEST this morning, and we had a pretty clear winner. With 73 "Likes" on our Facebook page, the poem you see above was the most popular submission.

Thanks to all of you who took part in this contest. I enjoyed reading the entries, and they were a pretty popular feature with our readers over at Facebook during the last three months, too. Curiously, there were a handful of poems that received NO votes, which meant the people who submitted them didn't even vote for their own entries. I suspect more than a few haiku posts were handicapped by Facebook's mindless changes to how updates appear in newsfeeds. Some of them likely went unseen by casual readers.

If you'd like to continue to submit haiku poems for use here and at Facebook, please do. And don't forget to enter for your chance to win a copy of the 2012 DARK SHADOWS movie on Blu Ray, which ends later this week.

Update: Dark Shadows Haiku Contest

The Dark Shadows Haiku Contest will be winding down over the next few weeks, but there's still time to enter, as well as time to vote for your favorites. Oddly, there are a handful of haiku entries over at our Facebook page that have yet to get a single vote, which means even the people who submitted them haven't voted for their own poems. Which is ... weird.

Enter as much as you want. Vote on as many entries as you like, and feel free to hit the "share" button on individual images to drum up votes on your own Facebook page. I've got the full details of the contest at THIS blog post, and the prize pack includes a signed photo of Jonathan Frid, a new DVD of THE HAUNTING OF COLLINWOOD, a script reproduction from one of the episodes of the original series, Japanese mini-posters for the 2012 DARK SHADOWS movie, a set of custom HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS trading cards and a DVD set of DARK SHADOWS COLLECTION 1.
 
I've posted the three most popular contest entries (so far) at the top of this post. GO HERE TO FIND OUT HOW TO ENTER.