First winner in the Samsung Use Your Instinct Contest

We have a first winner! Congratulations Kevin C Marvin for his winning entry:

I can almost hear
the sound of packaging tape
as I win your phone

You win the Samsung the M520.

To recap: Every week we’ll be giving away a cool Samsung phone culminating in the Samsung Instinct!

We begin our contest this week gunning for the Samsung Ace. The haiku should focus on sight and must be tweeted to UseYourInstinct. We will close entries for this week at noon on Tuesday, July 22.

If you entered the previous contest and didn’t win, feel free to re-enter.

What is a haiku? Here’s an example. It’s a short poem of three lines consiting of 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables.
For example:

The M520
doesn’t ring. It reminds me
that I’m a big nerd.

Read on for the rules.

Contest Rules:
1) Write a haiku about the sense of touch, sight or hearing using the traditional 5 syllable/7 sylllable/5 syllable formatc
2) Keep the entries clean. Haikus that include foul language will be deleted from the contest and will not be eligible to win.
3) Twitter (Tweet) the Entry to UseYourInstinct. If you’re not part of Twitter, simply create a login. While you’re there add CrunchGear, John B, and Nicholas, and Doug.

You can Tweet the entry by typing this into Twitter:

@useyourinstinct Whitecaps on the bay: /A broken signboard banging/ In the April wind.

This uses an example haiku by Richard Wright. You should simply type @useyourinstinct [your haiku here].

Your tweet may not appear immediately. Our bot only updates once an hour.

3) Make it creative. The most humorous and clever haikus will be most likely to win a free Samsung Instinct, Ace or M520

Contest Length/Prize Information: The contest runs from July 8 until July 28. One entry each week from the sense of touch, sight and hearing wins
Number of Entries: Participants can enter as many times as they want, but can only win one prize. CrunchGear Staff will pick the winners each week.

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5 Comments/Pingbacks so far

 
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dwalk51 (Who am I?)

Your winning haiku is kinda botched…
Technically speaking, it isn’t a haiku at all. In the winning haiku the syllables go 5,8,5
So… according to teh rules, shouldn’t he be disqualified?
(Don’t try to say I’m just a sore loser because I haven’t even entered this particular contest)

 
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Joel (Who am I?)

WRONG. read up before you try to correct people. It’s 5/7/5, as seen here, in this Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku . Find me at least 20 credible sources for the middle being eight syllables that contradict the thousands, if not millions of websites out there that prove it to be seven middle syllables. Until then, keep your comments to your self, unless you like to be proven an idiot.

On another note:
I still have not figured out any good haiku for this contest…

 
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SmartPeopleRule (Who am I?)

@dwalk51 you might want to use your calculator again.

 
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CountMe (Who am I?)

There are only 7 syllables in /the/ /sound/ /of/ /pack/a/ging/ /tape/ — best I can tell

 
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dwalk51 (Who am I?)

oh… oooooops…
hehehehehe
my bad everyone! I could have sworn there was an extra “the” in there but I was wrong. My reading skills were just botched.

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