Empires Haikus

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  1. The Buttery Lobster

    The Buttery Lobster Drama Queen.

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    Wikipedia says a common style of haiku is as follows:
    1. 3 or fewer lines and no more then 18 syllables
    2. At least one word with seasonal connotations-- summer/winter etc.
    3. Use of a punctuation mark to implicitly contrast and compare two events, images or situations.

    we're adding #4: The poem has to be empires related.

    Here's one about emp_duststorm, off the top of my head. I imagine future ones would be goofier:

    Dust swirls around steel
    As searing sun beats us down;
    Gunfire strikes like rain.

    Note the "searing" and "Sun" imply summer, I guess. Let's hear them poems!
    Also, I always thought it was three lines, first line 5 syllables, second 7 syllables, and third 5 syllables, but I guess not.
     
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  2. Slithzerikai

    Slithzerikai I for one am glad the NF SMG 3 is gone

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    Tanks approach with haste...
    I hear the tjirping of tracks...
    ... God, where is my mowtar...
     
  3. Warfle

    Warfle Member

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    Haiku about war in glycencity.

    Cold chills to the bone
    The explosions warm my soul...
    ...Where did your face go?
     
  4. Krenzo

    Krenzo Administrator

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    No, more like this:

    The gren draws nearer
    Vehic factory in sight
    Shells fall like snowflakes

    Of course, it's referring to everyone's ultimate goal of killing the enemy vehicle factory.
     
  5. KILLX

    KILLX Banned

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    the scouts bullet pierced his soul,
    a final act when he died,
    the carpet-bombing came
     
  6. The Buttery Lobster

    The Buttery Lobster Drama Queen.

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    too many syllables, KillX!!!! (still good though.)

    Fresh recruits line up,
    Eager to explore land, so:
    Boom Tank goes swimming.

    I reserve the right to edit this one if i think of a way to say it better.
     
  7. KILLX

    KILLX Banned

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    thanks. i was just trying to think of scouts + airstrikes

    desperately fleeing,
    tanks on all sides,
    he hits the mines
     
  8. L3TUC3

    L3TUC3 Member

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    The scout hugs the wall,
    Strange eyes do not see him,
    Melee kill is mine.
     
  9. knighttemplar

    knighttemplar Member

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    I wait for ammoz
    Summer heat comes like a blimb;
    Tehn Swamp is my end
     
  10. KILLX

    KILLX Banned

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    ammos, ammos,
    where art thou,
    ammos?
     

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