*Haiku Contest valid in our Morehead City Location Only*

This year's Grand Prize Winner receives dinner for two at Akai Hana Morehead City.
Our four second place contestants receive $20 gift certificates!
If you haven't already claimed your prize, please come by the restaurant!
First Annual
Akai Hana Haiku Contest
Enter your original haiku poem for a chance to win dinner for two or a $20 gift certificate to Akai Hana Japanese Restaurant.
One Grand Prize will be awarded and four runner-up prizes.
Deadline is May 31, 2014.
Haiku is a traditional Japanese poem of three lines, often, but not always, composed of 17 syllables arranged in a 5-7-5 form. Haiku usually contains a reference to nature and the seasons and reflects a Buddhist perception about life.
Previous winners
Orchid blossom drops-
Six weeks you graced my table
I will miss your face.
-Margaret Muller
Remembering her
On a light branch of my heart
I climb where I could not.
-Jeff Martin
Early greens for sale
How will I fit so much sprimg
In my small basket?
-Sue Covella
When there is no cat
The sun leaps through the window
And into my lap.
-Jude Casseday