Misetsukeru
Yamato damashii
Ikokunite

I will show you
My Japanese spirit
In this foreign country
                    --Ryo Nakano

Winner of the 4th Annual
Bowling Haiku Contest

Balls of Victory
Slender reed, qué cojones
Okey Goode Bowling
                    --CN

A perfect sequence
from release to break point
The 10-pin remains
                    --DD
 
Careful plans are made
Left, right, left, swing swing, release
Gutterball again!
                    --JB

Spinning, spinning, split
seven, ten, a world apart
oh expletives
                    --SH
 
Bowling is like life
Strikes, spares, gutterballs and splits
Can I keep the shoes?
                    --AB

A "Star Wars" Haiku

Grab a bowling ball!
May, the 4th be with you all!
Fun, it's sure to be.
                    --J'K'S
 
Bowl or not to Bowl
That's not the question, my dear
Love, laugh, live life, choose!
                    --HJ

Hey Ball with three holes
Go hit those silly white pins
What the... gutter ball?
                    --DV
 
The Ball went to town
to go and get a wax
Then he rode home fast.
                    --PC

Bowling and tennis
Useless, lousy, frippery
That, is what I think.
                    --KH
 
And we are sun-licked,
Leaning curves of speed and math
--an act of physics.
                    --MW

Spinning Ball Spins Down
Rocking and Rollin Get Down
Pins Go Down.  Go Down.
                    --MH
 
As the ancient Earth
ball is spinning on the floor
Cut off head in war.
                    --VS

You can not do that
I saw your foot on the line
Put in a zero!
                    --JM