![A Promax Super Jumbo boombox (2014.270.2.1a) used as a prop by the character Radio Raheem in the Spike Lee directed picture, Do the Right Thing. The boombox includes a dual audio casette tape deck, an equilizer section, radio dial, coloured light display, and a pair each of 8 subwoofers, midranges, and tweeters. There are sections of red, yellow, and green electical tape with black ink text on the sides and top of the player. There are also rectangular black, green, and yellow Public Enemy stickers adhered to both the PR and PL side of the player. On the lower back of the boombox is handwritten text in gold ink reading [BROOKLYN, NY / 3/17/90 / To Gene / RADIO RAHEEM LIVES / LOVE, Spike Lee / FIGHT THE POWER]. There is a metal handle attached to the top of the player, around which two braided bracelets (black-and-white 2014.270.2.1b, coloured 2014.270.2.1c) and multi-coloured printed cloth (2014.270.2.1d) have been tied. The rewind button on the PR tape deck has fallen off but is stored with the boombox (2014.270.2.1e). The boombox had an audio cassette in the PR deck that has been removed (2014.270.2.2), titled JAZZ CLUB / Vocal. The cassette is off-white with black text and is printed with track titles, manufacturing information, and serial number. Date: 1980s. Record ID: nmaahc_2014.270.2.](https://shsnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG-2612-1.jpg)
Enter the first ever Godzilla Haiku Contest today!
May 16, 2017
Have you ever considered the poetic possibilities of Godzilla? Ai??Well, they will exist as soon as you enter the first ever Godzilla Haiku Contest.
Do you want a chance to win a prize? Your very own T-Rex costume? If you answered YES, enter the Godzilla Haiku Contest today! All you have to do is write a haiku. Remember haiku’s are formed with three lines. The first and third lines must have 5 syllables. The second line must have 7 syllables. Have fun, be creative!
Comment your Haiku below, and remember to include your first and last names.
Submissions must submitted by 2:30 on Wednesday, May 17.
Ex: Ai?? Ai??The monster is here
He is breathing in my ear
Look out, Godzilla
Shanna-Kay Lemuel • May 18, 2017 at 11:42 AM
Godzilla is he
scrounging around the city
crushing bones, help me
Lukas Jones-Godshalk • May 17, 2017 at 2:08 PM
The giant monster
Terrorizing the people.
His name, Godzilla.
Savas Lassa • May 17, 2017 at 1:04 PM
My pet Godzilla,
He goes everywhere I go,
He will not eat you.
Shari Griswold • May 17, 2017 at 12:38 PM
Roar! Roar! Stomp! Stomp! Stomp!
Godzilla running amok
Oh, no! Tokyo!
(Written by my sister, Patti, the biggest Godzilla fan there ever was!)
Alyssa Salvato • May 8, 2017 at 9:28 AM
Melancholy me,
god help these aching cankles!
Can’t I catch a break?
Martin Ksepka • May 8, 2017 at 9:16 AM
There is a monster
It is crawling and coming
Be on the look out!
Brendan Baxter • May 8, 2017 at 9:11 AM
Straight out of Japan
Tearing buildings down all around
Godzilla had broke ground
Gabby S. • May 8, 2017 at 9:11 AM
Frightening monster
Destroying homes and cities,
Killer, Godzilla
Mark mcdonald • May 8, 2017 at 9:09 AM
The monster is here
I can feel his presence near
For which he strikes me
Eric Serbin • May 8, 2017 at 9:08 AM
Mothra is a moth
Godzilla is a reptile
No one really wins
Jon V • May 6, 2017 at 4:38 PM
It’s without a doubt
Truly the most dominant
Ancient being here
Amaya caraballo • May 5, 2017 at 3:34 PM
Air shivers with fear
As a large, dark creature roams
Through the night city
Amber Smith • May 5, 2017 at 1:45 PM
Godzilla is gross
A lizard that looks garbage
Go back to the trash
Lindsey Reilly • May 5, 2017 at 1:39 PM
Big scaly monster
Godzilla, you demolish
The town of Tokyo
Derick Ducosse • May 5, 2017 at 1:33 PM
Breaking the city
Smashed buildings piling up
Godzilla will kill
Emily Schwartz • May 5, 2017 at 1:32 PM
Airplane falling down
Godzilla keeps eating woes
Bigger than king crows
Jaylen Ewers • May 5, 2017 at 1:31 PM
My scaly waley monster.
You ride me and I ride you.
You are very hard, pain.
Andrew Bunker • May 5, 2017 at 1:30 PM
Take me away please
into godzillas belly
will fill me with glee
Sarinthia Saunders • May 5, 2017 at 1:30 PM
I am a Queen B
Godzilla don’t mess with me
If you wanna eat
Emilio Arostegui • May 5, 2017 at 1:30 PM
Well, it’s time to go
Daddy Godzilla is here
Now I’m so grounded
Luke Socha • May 5, 2017 at 1:30 PM
Skyscrapers falling,
Tsunamis are now coming,
The roar of thunder.
Justin • May 5, 2017 at 1:29 PM
Reptilian god
He will eat your father too
Do not mess with him
Shavaughn Frank • May 5, 2017 at 1:29 PM
Godzilla is here
Babies cry out of the fear
While he eats the deer
Lukas Cardoni • May 5, 2017 at 1:29 PM
Godzilla the goof
Trips over his monster feet
Eats his own fingers
Kachynna Allen • May 5, 2017 at 1:29 PM
Don’t run you can’t hide.
He will stomp your big toe
Pull off your silly nose.
Josh DeHaven • May 5, 2017 at 1:29 PM
Ya boy godzilla
Eating momz and popz like fries
The tasty protein
Byler Blingel • May 5, 2017 at 1:28 PM
Wakes from the ocean,
His green scaly skin grows spikes,
Opens his red eyes.
Megan Filipkowski • May 5, 2017 at 1:26 PM
The feel of a bird
Flying up high in the sky
Never going back
Megan Filipkowski • May 5, 2017 at 1:31 PM
Referring to planes and helicopters btw. Hence never going back.
Daniella Wali • May 5, 2017 at 12:45 PM
Godzilla breathes fire
Little kids, his desire
His plan will backfire
(fire is one syllable)
Madisyn Fisher • May 5, 2017 at 12:38 PM
Godzilla came over
The monster came to power
A fate filled with scales
Natalie Martine • May 5, 2017 at 12:36 PM
Has reptile breath
Godzilla is my mother
I am terrified
Tony Garza • May 5, 2017 at 12:36 PM
Take me away, sir
To your secret place, zilla
Take me away, dad
Dylan • May 5, 2017 at 12:35 PM
Hiroshima gone
Godzilla will soon roll up
On a hover board
Rashad Barron • May 5, 2017 at 12:34 PM
Shadows are abound
Endless fire fills the skies
The beast has arrived
Kylan • May 5, 2017 at 12:34 PM
Godzilla not a god
But just a simple creature lost abroad
Return to sleep forever more
Samantha castillo • May 5, 2017 at 12:33 PM
He walks among us
Crushing cities beneath him
You better run fast
Anaya white • May 5, 2017 at 12:33 PM
Godzilla must go
So you cannot see the depth
Of his loneliness
Leiyla O'Dowd • May 5, 2017 at 12:33 PM
Don’t speak it they said.
If the name slips out your mouth,
He knows you are dead.
Subria Charles • May 5, 2017 at 12:33 PM
Subria Charles snarles
At the reptilian king
Gazing at the city
Alex Gleason • May 5, 2017 at 12:32 PM
Nuclear weapon
Godzilla, king of monsters
Cities get destroyed
Christion Johnson • May 5, 2017 at 12:32 PM
Retaliation.
Natures defense against us.
Our consequences.
Hagan Schomberg • May 5, 2017 at 12:31 PM
Japanese Giant
Eats tiny kids for breakfast
Beware Godzilla
Micah • May 5, 2017 at 12:30 PM
On some days I need
Just one more smash, one more scream
To get me through this
Kelsey Stewart • May 5, 2017 at 12:30 PM
Godzilla eats kids,
Causes chaos, and destruction.
It ruins the city.
Abdul Jabri • May 5, 2017 at 12:30 PM
Biggest creature ever
Never seen something so large
It was defeated
Micah • May 5, 2017 at 12:30 PM
On some days I need
Just one more smash, one more scream
To get me through this
Natalie Martine • May 5, 2017 at 12:30 PM
Godzilla is fake
the Americans attacked
Hiroshimas gone
Samad Khan • May 5, 2017 at 12:30 PM
I like eggs a lot
So does Godzilla the God
Actually eggs suck
Makayla • May 5, 2017 at 12:30 PM
Godzilla is big
Crazed with anger and revenge
He will come get you
Kyle Sopich • May 5, 2017 at 12:21 PM
Sublime Daikaiju
The Most Prominent of All
Go Go Godzilla!
Michael Shen • May 5, 2017 at 11:46 AM
“The Bringer of death”
“The killer of men and Earth”
“Run it’s Godzilla!!!” -Austin Powers Goldmember
Cae Hank • May 5, 2017 at 10:48 AM
You need to calm down.
Stop your shenanigans dude.
Godzilla get help.
Matt Sobrinski • May 5, 2017 at 10:24 AM
Hiroshima Fiend
butters his raisin bagel
with infant mucus
Lucas Wesselius • May 5, 2017 at 10:24 AM
Destroying Cities,
Constant hunger, constant rage,
There is no escape.
Shanna-Kay Lemuel • May 5, 2017 at 10:21 AM
Scared, petrified town
The monster, is all around
Hide, he smells fear, dear.
Sam Imber • May 5, 2017 at 10:20 AM
Ripping things to shreds
Attacking things all day long
I hate all people
Mara Batt • May 5, 2017 at 10:16 AM
Misunderstood beast
Born larger than any friend
Only wants a hug
Saheim Clervoix • May 5, 2017 at 10:16 AM
Is it a bird? Is it a plane?
No it looks like..
GODZILLAA
Nylah Safforld • May 5, 2017 at 10:03 AM
Where is Godzilla
Are you there or are you here
You are a monster
Nia Skeet • May 5, 2017 at 8:13 AM
Mornings in Tokyo,
Are usually still ’till
Godzilla wakes up.
Dara Lewis • May 5, 2017 at 8:09 AM
Godzilla is great
He killed everyone I hate
Now we are married
My kin is deceased
Why didn’t you take me, too?
Sweet release of death
Latrell Barnes • May 5, 2017 at 8:06 AM
Screams of panicked fear
Confusion and destruction
How delicious, life
Tori • May 5, 2017 at 8:05 AM
Everyone is dead
All because of this monster
Thank you Godzilla
Kira Darlington • May 5, 2017 at 8:05 AM
This shouldn’t be real
There’s no way his body could
Support him on land
(Scientifically if Godzilla grew up in the ocean where the pressure is different when he gets on land he should be crushed by his own weight but whatever)
Sadie Unangst • May 5, 2017 at 8:04 AM
Godzilla is so
Tired of all the haikus
Can you please shut up?
Nicholas Bergman • May 5, 2017 at 8:01 AM
I am not power
I am not what they call strong
No, I simply am
Kira Darlington • May 5, 2017 at 7:57 AM
I’m so scared, mommy
When will the monster stop?
Will daddy come home?
(From a child’s perspective)
Marco torres • May 5, 2017 at 7:55 AM
Hiroshima fell
Nagasaki also fell
Godzilla woke up
Jimmy Burden • May 5, 2017 at 7:44 AM
Tokyo Beware
Godzilla will crush the town
Hide your wife and kids
Nicole Foraci • May 4, 2017 at 1:54 PM
Just remember, kids
If this iguana DID exist,
Land is his quicksand
Karon Cox A.K.A Skron Sav • May 4, 2017 at 10:30 AM
God-zilla ain’t no baby
In yeo city he’ll go crazy
Godzilla is so wavey
Luke Socha • May 3, 2017 at 12:59 PM
Sharp, red glowing eyes
A creature from your nightmares
Taller than the sky
Kyra Gilman • May 3, 2017 at 11:12 AM
“God of Destruction”
Not Beerus, but Godzilla
The Earth quivers in his wake
HaJa Jalloh • May 3, 2017 at 11:10 AM
Everyone is scared
So now I am asking all
Who is the fearless?
Gabrielle Buchanan • May 3, 2017 at 11:10 AM
big beautiful beast
majestically stepping here
the world is now over
Taylor Miller • May 3, 2017 at 11:09 AM
I hate this monster,
He haunts me in my last sleep,
I’m dead ’cause of him.
Emily Garbarino • May 3, 2017 at 11:08 AM
Godzilla is here!!
But why are his arms outstretched?
He just wants a hug!!
Tanajah Rieara • May 3, 2017 at 11:05 AM
screaming and yelling
with big steps like my daddy
you mad,me too dude
Dasia Reyna • May 3, 2017 at 11:05 AM
The monster roars
just like Godzilla
very loud
Zaritza Valdez • May 3, 2017 at 11:04 AM
Flames fly up above
The scaled being stomps about
People scatter away
Naomi Hineline • May 3, 2017 at 11:02 AM
His very large teeth
That we must be stuck beneath
Like strands of old meat
Sierra Tiwari • May 3, 2017 at 10:59 AM
Godzilla smash’s,
Causing chaos and havoc
Is anyone safe?
Alefiyah • May 3, 2017 at 10:58 AM
The world rolls in tides
As her eyes speak to the moon
Wondering sweet life
Katie Wheeler • May 3, 2017 at 10:55 AM
Oh my Godzilla!
He eats the Village children
Oh my he ate me!!
Gabe Mazza • May 3, 2017 at 10:20 AM
Daddy Godzilla,
Please toss me like a salad.
Call me your princess.
David Bradley • May 3, 2017 at 9:57 AM
“Ripping and tearing,
All the people I’m scaring
I feel like a god.”
Mardan Daurilas • May 3, 2017 at 9:55 AM
Godzilla oh how
you destroy without penance
please teach me your ways
Ayomiro Aderin • May 3, 2017 at 9:53 AM
The lizard draws near.
Cities become his pathway.
No one shall impede.
Max A • May 3, 2017 at 7:15 AM
Godzilla Is Mad
He Is Very Very Bad
He Makes Me Real Sad
Wakawakawakawaka • May 2, 2017 at 6:58 PM
It’s finally time
There’s the nuclear monster
Ready to destroy