You rated the haikus and determined our finalists …
Now, from your favorites, our fancy celebrity judge Joel Stein has anointed a winner:

I don’t think I’d need
Five hundred days to know that
Summer was a bitch.

— Ash

Ash is our 2010 Haiku Master! Ash is also our MVP, being the author of a majority of our highest rated haiku (though his syllable counting skills were not always perfect).

Here are our Honorable Mentions, the other highest-rated haiku that had the correct meter, showed no voting irregularities, and were not written by Lynn or Chris…

We’re so different.
For example, I’m a Mac.
And you’re an asshole.
— Ash

It will never work.
I like Radiohead and
you like Dave Matthews.
— Salmeen

young love grows old fast:
the puppy you wanted then
has gone to the dogs
— ed

These aren’t tears for you.
I’m just upset that Mom said,
“See. I told you so.”
— Ash

The signs were all there.
Like your YouTube “parody”
of Single Ladies.
— Ash

Check out all the entries in our 2010 Valentine’s Day Haiku Contest here. (Disagree with the results? Yes, you can still rate them!)

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