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The Haiku Game

Postby Destined-To-Reign » Jul 01, 2010 9:54 pm

Welcome to a new game, never played on NW before! This may be more complicated than our typical game, but if you enjoy and understand anything about writing and poetry, you just might enjoy it. :D I got the concept from another forum.

This game is called the Haiku Game. In each post you must write a Haiku (or Tanka, if the question is too difficult to answer in Haiku). You can read the links for more information, but for a quick overview, a Haiku is a poem with a syllable count that goes like this: 5-7-5. Tanka's go 5-7-5-7-7.
I'll take care of Person #1. ;)
Person #2 comes along, and answers my question with a Haiku or Tanka, and then asks a new question for the next person to answer via poetry.
Person #3 answers the question Person #2 posted, with a Haiku or Tanka, and then asks a new question.

See? If you're intimidated by this game, feel free to sit by and watch for a few posts. In the end you may decide it's a game you're not comfortable playing, and that's fine. :) If you do play, rest assured that we don't ask perfection (and I haven't written much Haiku myself!), and, keeping in mind that this is just a game, we mainly ask that you just keep close watch over the number of your syllables. :)

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Re: The Haiku Game

Postby ramagut » Jul 02, 2010 12:11 am

God painted the grass
In a beautiful green shade
Humans to enjoy

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Re: The Haiku Game

Postby Miss Rosario » Jul 02, 2010 6:08 am

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Carrying the rays inside them
To shine through the mist

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Re: The Haiku Game

Postby beloved » Jul 02, 2010 6:54 am

Little balls of fur
Tiny with sounds of wonder
And always sleepy

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Re: The Haiku Game

Postby ramagut » Jul 02, 2010 10:39 am

Books take us places
Other worlds times and people
We would never go

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Re: The Haiku Game

Postby Destined-To-Reign » Jul 02, 2010 11:39 am

Narnia is all
That imagination asks
There are trees that move
And kind animals that talk
And ships and skies of bright blue

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Re: The Haiku Game

Postby Lady Courage » Jul 02, 2010 11:50 am

Adam named Eve to
give her a title and now
we follow his lead

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Re: The Haiku Game

Postby Andrew » Jul 02, 2010 12:42 pm

Clouds seek to conquer
Grey skies follow them fiercly
Always blue returns.

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Re: The Haiku Game

Postby Bother Eustace » Jul 02, 2010 3:33 pm

To an owl's taste,
A mouse is exceptional,
And healthy as well.

Which way is north?
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Re: The Haiku Game

Postby ValiantArcher » Jul 02, 2010 3:57 pm

The north is the way
determined by the stars and
the magnetic poles.

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Some days you battle yourself and other monsters.
Some days you just make soup.
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Re: The Haiku Game

Postby Lady Courage » Jul 02, 2010 5:26 pm

If the ground were soft,
we wouldn't reach for the sky,
to improve our ways.

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Re: The Haiku Game

Postby Bother Eustace » Jul 02, 2010 6:11 pm

The heart within us
Is tender and quite complex,
Even the wisest
Cannot fully explain it;
Love is past comprehension.

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Re: The Haiku Game

Postby Adeona » Jul 02, 2010 10:56 pm

On the ocean bed
Lurk the huge crabs and huge clams
So don't go below!

(I hope I did that right!)

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Re: The Haiku Game

Postby beloved » Jul 03, 2010 8:33 am

As God commanded
To love Him and all others
And life will be full

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Re: The Haiku Game

Postby wolfloversk » Jul 03, 2010 11:26 am

Soft for comforting
A wounded or weary soul;
Let the tired sleep.

(I hope that was right)

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Re: The Haiku Game

Postby Bother Eustace » Jul 03, 2010 11:32 am

The sky far above
Must stretch from each horizon
And reach round again.

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