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

That may be true, but...
'Haikus' sounds quite odd to me...
But then, that's just me.

I'm going to blame it on spending *way* too much time immersing my ears in Japanese language due to watching lots and lots of foreign films and Japanese animation, all with subtitles.

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?

That's the great thing about the Architecture board... it *is* built on the idea that one can't properly test their own hold I need to make an actual hold at some point instead of just doing a chapter on the Community Project hold.

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Well then, at the risk of getting my sites mixed up, some Haiku(s):



Cycles

Pale sunlight dawning,
Cool air, ploughed fields, snowdrops gleam,
Crocuses dancing.

~

Heat shimmer, sun cream,
Chilled fruit juice and barbeques,
Golden evenings drift.

~

Crisp nights, curling leaves,
Purple hills and ripe brambles,
Barley harvested.

~

Short days, cold dark nights,
Frost sparkles and breathing steams,
Mulled wine by the fire.


© Elfstone20/8/03

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Chaco
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Elfstone wrote:
Anyway, one thing that all Writers (or aspiring Writers ) learn very quickly is that one cannot properly proof-read one's own work.

To proofread my work
is like eating my own food
I will find it good.

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Ezlo
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The game "Harvest Moon"
So unrealistic, so fun
Can't stop playing. Help!

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Never before have
seventeen syllables been
made so meaningless

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One syllable is three,
How to count seven and eight,
Woe's unto me, I suck.

Somehow, I have never managed to count syllables properly (not that the straight metrical system is any easier to scan).

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Staring at the screen
Both eyes getting quite tired
Thinking of some words

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DROD is too much fun
I play, even though I need
to use the bathroom

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Guessing Hikari
Will have others guessing him
In predict next one.

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When killing roaches
Always remember to take
All the corpses back

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Bunches wrote:
Guessing Hikari
Will have others guessing him
In predict next one.

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Lifting up skyward
Levitating serpent head
Lands on other side

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What starts with just five
Follows with seven then five?
It must be haiku.

golfrman
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I hate poetry
im really not very good
end my misery


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The word very is
Quite good at filling haikus
It's very helpful

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My cat likes keyboards
She loves to lay down on them
Makes me go sjhfgkjhsh.

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The subject and the
Description have a mere
Sixteen syllables

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I am not crazy
I may be in denial
But I'm not crazy

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Riddle of the bar:
Countless hours late at night
Clicking painfully


(By the way, if I had the mod points Canadian Army would get 2 and Ezlo would get 1...)

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The bar is very
Stuck at 85%
We are not happy.

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Bunches wrote:
The bar is very
Stuck at 85%
We are not happy.

one must realise that
bar could be 100 percent
But still no TCB here.

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NiroZ wrote:

Bunches wrote:
The bar is very
Stuck at 85%
We are not happy.

one must realise that
bar could be 100 percent
But still no TCB here.

Look at the bright side.
Drod 2 done at nine-six'eight -
Might not need to wait.

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Things said are all true,
solving the bar is fun too!
What goodies have you?

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I have so many
I like to give them away
but only for clicks

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If I had mod points
I would mod you up right now
Because that was good.

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My cat crouches so
that she may pounce on a hair
band and kill it off.