Poetry contest : Compose a traditional haiku about tonight's Academy Awards?

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Rules: 3 lines, 17 syllables (give or take one)
Optional: a 'season word' typical of this genre
Why? : for the fun of it
Due: about midnight tonight, when the Oscars are done
Prize: a coveted 'Paddy' award
 
MY LITTLE ONE

My little one whose tongue is dumb,
whose fingers cannot hold to things,
who is so mercilessly young,
he leaps upon the instant things,

I hold him not. Indeed, who could?
He runs into the burning wood.
Follow, follow if you can!
He will come out grown to a man

and not remember whom he kissed,
who caught him by the slender wrist
and bound him by a tender yoke
which, understanding not, he broke.


Tennessee Williams
 
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