{"id":954,"date":"2014-04-03T14:45:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T21:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/?p=954"},"modified":"2014-04-07T12:13:24","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T19:13:24","slug":"purple-haiku-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/purple-haiku-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Haiku Contest Winner – Purple Haiku Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Purple<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

We have a winner for our Purple Haiku Review contest!<\/strong><\/h2>\n

A little background: \u00a0Because Yelp’s system reportedly hides positive reviews from businesses that don’t pay to advertise with them, all the great Yelp reviews from our customers are hidden. Our only review displaying on Yelp<\/a> is a haiku that seems favorable, listing things we sell and then, randomly, giving us two stars for no reason. \u00a0We’re guessing the guy who wrote it may never even have been to our store or purchased anything from our website (or he figured out that the only way to show a good review is to give it low stars!).\u00a0So we asked our fans to come up with some great purple haiku poems responding to his review.<\/p>\n

And the winner is…<\/p>\n

Why only 2 stars?<\/span>
\n I give praise to Purple Store!<\/span>
\n Hmmmmm….Green fan, perhaps?<\/span>
\n -Michelle from Oxnard, California<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Other Great Haiku We Received from our Customers!<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Directly Responding to the Yelp Review:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Jon from Seattle
\nwhat’s up with the random knocks?
\nthe Purple Store rocks
\n-Eric M<\/p>\n

Jon\u2019s words are untrue,
\nthough they form a Haiku.
\nDon\u2019t let them scare you!
\n-Sally G<\/p>\n

I tried to review
\nThe Five Stars that you deserve
\nMy review hidden
\n-K. Szakoyni<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jon is just an S
\nWithout a truth to confess
\nHe makes Yelp a mess
\n-Sally G<\/p>\n

Considered worthy
\nAn irrelevant haiku?
\nYelp, that’s so not cool
\n-K. Szakoyni<\/p>\n

Purple is awesome!
\nIf you hate purple, then why?
\nIt doesn’t make sense!?!?
\n-Maureen T<\/p>\n

don’t listen to Jon
\nI think he just hates purple
\nand that is just wrong
\n-Eric M<\/p>\n

Jon S. you don\u2019t know\u2026
\nYelp\u2019s ratings don\u2019t make it so!
\nPurple people glow!
\n-Sally G<\/p>\n

I know and you know
\napparently Jon does not
\npurple is POWER
\n-Eric M<\/p>\n

Yelp gives us no cause;
\nFor to believe in their clause
\nWe must forego laws.
\n-Sally G<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Someone Was Really Observant:<\/b><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

We had no idea our\u00a0t-shirt<\/a>,\u00a0tote bag<\/a>, and\u00a0sticker<\/a>\u00a0“Anything Purple Is Mine…” slogan works as a haiku!\u00a0 Nice job Morgan for noticing this!<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Everything purple
\nIs mine everything else can
\nBe dyed or painted.
\n-Morgan R<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Notables About The Purple Store:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

These great Haiku could have been Yelp reviews on their own!<\/em><\/p>\n

The Color Purple
\nA great book and cow poem
\nBest website EVER!!!!
\n-Kate S<\/p>\n

I’m in desperate need
\nbecause purple is my love
\npurple store road trip
\n-Britne C<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

we’re The Purple Store
\nyes – everything is purple!
\nwho could ask for more?
\n-Eric M<\/p>\n

LOVE the Purple Store
\nQuality and fast service
\nCould not ask for more
\n-K. Szakonyi<\/p>\n

Do you love purple?
\nGo to the Purple store and
\nSee purple delight
\n-Mark E<\/p>\n

Is it true that a
\nNatural item to be
\nPurple christmas tree?
\n-Mark E<\/p>\n

A purple parade
\nAll that you could ever need \u2013
\nThat’s The Purple Store!
\n-Dannielle V<\/p>\n

If you love purple
\nVisit the store with the most \u2013
\nYou won’t be let down!
\n-Dannielle V<\/p>\n

The plum Purple Store
\nFor violaceous people
\nWith purple passion
\n-Dannielle V<\/p>\n

The Purple Store rocks!
\nIf purple is your color,
\nGo there. Now. Right now!!!
\n-Connie B<\/p>\n

Haiku About Purple:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

This one follows the traditional Haiku pattern of focusing on nature!<\/em><\/p>\n

Kookaburra Laughs
\nA sun kissed day awaits me
\nPurple fills my soul.
\n-Michelle P<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Purple is the best.
\nRoyal, spiritual shade–
\nwho can resist it?
\n-Lorraine S<\/p>\n

how is perfect spelled?
\nP – U – R – P – L – E? yup!
\nthat works fine for me!
\n-Eric M<\/p>\n

People love purple,
\nLavender, lilac and plum \u2013
\nIt’s pure poetry
\n-Dannielle V<\/p>\n

Black, blue, purple white
\nWhat is last is really quite
\nThe hot item right?
\n-Mark E<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We have a winner for our Purple Haiku Review contest! <\/p>\n

A little background: Because Yelp’s system reportedly hides positive reviews from businesses that don’t pay to advertise with them, all the great Yelp reviews from our customers are hidden. Our only review displaying on Yelp is a haiku that seems favorable, listing things we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[34,31,32,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}