Post your Dom3 Haiku - Page 5

sansanjuan · #41 March 14th, 2008, 01:56 PM

A few more...

Looks like rain
Cloud Trapeze
Combatant downpour

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Early trash talk
Armies Instantiate
Crow served warm

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Opposing Armies
Adjacent provinces
.2H Collision

-SSJ

hnchrist3 · #42 March 15th, 2008, 10:23 PM

Just one single-click
All before me fall in death
Just another turn

Digress · #43 March 16th, 2008, 07:25 AM

A triple bless build
Pray not a close neighbour be
MA Mictlan huh ?

Randvek · #44 March 18th, 2008, 06:09 PM

A handful of gems?!
Wait, just one lousy Earth Gem?
I must have small hands.

True story.

HoneyBadger · #45 March 20th, 2008, 07:03 PM

Niefel Warrior,
Axe cuts through flesh like butter!
PD? it's TP.

Niefel Jarl Prophet,
Arena, against Men? Gods?
Beauty and Despair.

Prophet Champion,
Masses struck down by trident,
Blood and Victory!

Niefel Pretender...
Wyrm? Skratti? Son of Fenrir?
Imprisoned Cyclops!

Triple Bless 10,
Cuts all Nations down like wheat!
Except Late Ermor...

moderation · #46 March 21st, 2008, 05:20 AM

Frustrated wizard,
Pours over grimore at night,
The perfect spell appears.

Omnirizon · #47 March 21st, 2008, 05:44 AM

wow i like that one, moderation.

almost a perfect haiku too, 5-7-5ish; and the syllabuls don't matter much, given the loose relevance of them in translation from japanese to english formats. the important thing is beat, which that one captures fine.

and the substance, so wonderful. i can totally relate. i guess... if i imagine myself a wizard (graduate student) pouring over a grimour, late at night, (stacks of books and countless PDF's of articles), looking for the perfect spell (theory, or argument, or way to frame a concept). and it just suddenly _appears_ (that moment of clarity, or is it a delusion? who cares, it feels like a spell appearing).

personal meaning or not, its a good haiku capturing a classic image.

moderation · #48 March 21st, 2008, 06:35 AM

Thanks Omnirizon. This one happened happened by accident as much as anything. The fact that it was rather late and I was being bad by staying up hunting for strategy tips probably had something to do with it. The original version was a bit different, but I tweaked and poked at it till it sounded better.

By the way, I liked your haiku "endless slaughter/intrigue and treachery/
is fun for pixels" for it's amused detachment. The other humorous ones that people have posted are also very entertaining. Well I'll get back to grimore now. Here's to mage butter and elephant neighbors!

sansanjuan · #49 March 21st, 2008, 12:45 PM

R,
Or a big gem!

-SSJ

moderation · #50 March 21st, 2008, 06:02 PM

Here's my response to Haiku #1.

Have all searchers flee
And fear not your wizards slain
Ah, the joy of micro.