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A Haiku Challenge?

by Steve Gibson, Mar 04, 2001 6:51am PST
Related Topics – Games: PC

Those silly guys at 3DAP actually think they can out-haiku the gamers here. What kind of nerve does it take!? We all know that the haiku masters reside here in our humble little corner of the web. I invite you guys to prove them wrong this weekend, and I'll start it off with my lyrical stylings:

Shoot the hostage dude! Flashbang your own team, it rocks! You suck the poo poo.




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  • One Man's Great Struggle
    To Bring Haiku to the Shack

    by lurker, et al


    Once I saw a star.
    That star must have been taken.
    My wish was not heard :(

    I followed the star.
    I wanted to punch its face.
    Then a barn hit mine.

    'Where the hell am I?'
    I saw the Comfort Inn sign.
    It ran: "Oops! No rooms"

    I spied a baby.
    Wrapped in cloth and hay, he cried.
    I bought a rattle.

    I walked up to him.
    Frankincense, myrrh, and rattle.
    Gifts for wailing kid.

    He turned, and then said,
    "Your wish will never come true"
    In his best Cagney.

    Resisting one urge,
    I called him a jackanape.
    His face was unharmed.


    That was years ago,
    But still I'm faced with a quest:
    To bring the haiku.

    One year and three months.
    That's how long it took last time.
    Gods! Please hear my plea!

    Vantage will tell you.
    He'll talk of figures and graphs.
    Posting will increase.

    Others will tell you.
    They'll talk of signal and noise.
    Worthless posts abound.

    Others still may talk:
    "Haiku is pure, just, and good."
    They are me; I, them.

    We need more haiku.
    Though it'd be funny to see,
    Haikus do not flame.

    We'll join hand in hand,
    And spread haiku through the land.
    Or maybe we won't.