Chalks
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Just one thing allowed
Wondering what that thing is?
Haiku reigns supreme
          In case you are dense
          I'll draw a picture for you
          (Well, um, not really)
Use only haiku
because if you don't do so
We shall all smite you
          Reward those of us
          Who make up a clever rhyme
          or are just funny
Have five syllables
Then seven, no more, no less
Five again, it's fun!
          I say with a grin,
          (you can just ignore this line)
          Let the game begin!

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mrimer
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One, two, three, four, five.
I once caught a roach alive.
Six, seven, eight, aieee!

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kie
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DROD - a splendid game
Smiting, blood, puzzles galore
What more does one need?

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Nillo
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If there is one thing
That I truly cannot stand
It is the haiku.

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trick
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But isn't haiku
 supposed to mention nature,
            and be japanese ?

stigant
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One should not limit
One's enjoyment of zen to
observing nature



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trick
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   You make a good point,
 mumbled the goblin, as the
   smiter whet his sword

Chris
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is it only me,
or does "One thing allowed" have
too few syllables?

stigant
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not if one reads it
"ah - low - ed" like they us-ed
to do long ago.

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Chalks
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You are quite right Chris!
Really sorry about that
Chalks laughs at himself


Now, in other news
I just saw Fantastic Four
It was horrible.

coppro
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Is this topic dead?
Wintertime makes people sad
Seasons rule haiku.

bjladd
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Greedy for rank points
Motivated me to write
One crappy haiku

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Niccus
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Thread necromancy
deserves naught some cheap rank points
nor witty remarks

Shoot me instead now
for being quite truly bored
and butcher haikus

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Chaco
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I hate poetry.
I find it quite difficult.
But that is just me.

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Elfstone
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I would like to know
Can one post some real haikus?
I have written some.


Elfstone.

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Citrus
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I don't see why not
Amaze us with your poems
Can't be worse than mine

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Hikari
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Foreign words act odd...
More than one is two haiku;
Haikus is not a word.

English rules don't work
When a word has no plural;
Japanese has none.

I like to haiku...
Poetry without rhyming
is more fun for me.

...and also words that pluralize with no change in spelling... Not attacking anyone, *especially* not Elfstone; just pointing out an odd thing about Japanese nouns

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Bunches
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DROD is very fun.
Bunches likes it very much.
Ezlo likes it to.

silver
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deep, dark caves alive
with roaches, brains, snakes and eyes.
delver stands alone.

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cruel bar moves not,
we are longing for sequel.
summer drifts slowly.

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architects striving
for puzzles new, hard, and fun.
wallu solves them all.

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things hidden in tar:
lazy architect's cheap hack.
transparency saves.


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Citrus
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The sword stabs roaches
It breaks through mortar and stone
Yet never gets dull

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Canadian_Army
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I'm sorry but I
Really have no idea what
A Haiku is. Help!

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Citrus
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Wubbas closing in
Drowning me in a white sea
Making open paths closed


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Chaco
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Hacking through the goop
Killing whatever is there
Sword strangely stays clean

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NiroZ
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Wisp will sniff you out
The slayer will follow then
The hook will find you

Citrus
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Disbelief comes first
Sorrow quickly comes after
No E3 next year!



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NiroZ
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Ezlo wrote:
Disbelief comes first
Sorrow quickly comes after
No E3 next year!

It is downsized not
canceled so thus jumping to
Conclusions not wise.

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Citrus
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An E3 not giant
Is not an E3 at all
Therefore I am sad

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Niccus
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O, overhyping
will thoust be gone with this death?
Well, Mr. Nukem?

Canadian_Army
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The Haiku maker
Must have had seven fingers
On his middle hand

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Elfstone
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Hikari wrote:
Foreign words act odd...
More than one is two haiku;
Haikus is not a word.

According to the Chambers Dictionary the plural can be either Hiaku or Haikus - so we are both correct.

Not attacking anyone, *especially* not Elfstone;

Ah, but I am happy to have my mistakes pointed out. I am a member of a Writer's site and there it is normal practice to help others with spelling and grammar and, in my main interest, poetry, to help with structure and so on. I'm so used to it that when I first came on to the site it felt odd not to do that. Other long standing members obviously didn't, so I bit my tongue.

Anyway, one thing that all Writers (or aspiring Writers ) learn very quickly is that one cannot properly proof-read one's own work. I wonder if it's a bit like testing one's own hold?

Elfstone.

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