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Haiku, General and Specific
 
Zeropoint -
 
Regarding your comments about haiku generally, I present two haiku I wrote for the old boards.
 
Quatrains with rhyme schemes
Stumble awkwardly, words forced;
Haiku flows freely
 
Haiku flows freely
Just enough discipline there
To make elegance
 
 
As far as using haiku to comic effect, if I am not mistaken that is part of its heritage - one of the earlier Japanese forms haiku evolved from was often used for comic poetry, or so I have been told. Also, note that even a comic poem can have something serious to say, as in this one I wrote about the Hero System that is dense with wordplay but does - pardon the expression - make a point.
 
One must count points, else
Pointless the rules, but know that
Points are not the Point
 
 
As for the haiku under discussion
 
My small son's first step
Above the swept hearth is hung
A warrior's sword
 
It is astute of you to suspect that it is not as clear and straightforward as one would at first suppose. It is both clear and opaque - that is, it speaks clearly to many people, but what it says to each tells more about that person than about the writer. It is, in a word, evocative, which is why I regard it highly as poetry. The reason I put it back out here for discussion is that there was an interesting and lively discussion going on about it before - and in fact, it inspired several other people to write their own haiku.
 
The author is Lilith Silvermane (she can be reached at lilithsilvermane@yahoo.com) so at once the assumption often made that it is a man's poem is confounded.
 
With that much context - that a woman wrote it - I wonder if anyone's view of it changes?
 
Lucius Alexander
 
Cleverly I park
My palindromedary
In the center line

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster
 

Re: More space news!
 

 

*goes and looks*
 
*comes back and removes everyone from his ignore list*
 
Guys, seriously, I really don't say this often enough, but I love you all!

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
Ooh yeah, I
Just wanna watch the girls, goin' by...
It's like poetry in motion
against a hot summer sky.
I'm in love, yeah yeah...
at least every minute or two...
until the next time a girl walks by
I think I love her too
 
Oh I, I can't help myself
but I just loose my head
everytime you see 'em walkin' by...
 
Summertime Girls
You make my whole world go around
Summertime Girls
When you lift me up
I never come down, no, no...
 
She's hot!
I dig her wiggle and all that shake
I can read that body language, yeah
a million miles away
Sometimes I, yeah come on just a bit, a bit too strong
But I just like to pretend, yes.
that I can have 'em all.
 
No time, time to catch my breath
so easily impressed
it doesn't matter if it's day or night
 
Summertime Girls
You make my whole world go around
Summertime Girls
But when you lift me up
I never come down, no, no...
 
Come here girls...
 
Summertime Girls
You make my whole world go around
Summertime Girls
When you lift me up
I never come down, no, no...
 
Summertime Girls
Oh baby..You make my whole world go around
Summertime Girls
The way you lift me up
I never come down, no, no...
 
Summertime Girls
Summertime Girls
Summertime Girls
You make my whole world go around
Summertime Girls
 
 
 
Hello? Enforcer84? 1985 Just called, they want their music back!

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 

 
As they would say on FIREFLY ... Shiney!
 
PDS

Re: Champions Jargon
 
Wombat: A character built with every conceivable loophole and Limitation to maximize power. Flight bought "Not Underwater", Energy Blasts and Force Fields bought with exceptionally rare Limitations (Not in Intense Magnetic Fields; Not on Odd Numbered Tuesdays) adding up to +1 or more. Our group's equivalent to "munchkin" or "cheese."
 
Combat Wombat: A PC built and optimized solely for combat. Has no non-combat skills or abilities at all; in fact may not even have a name for his Secret ID or a method of earning a living in said Secret ID. Really bad ones may not even have a superhero name (He's still "Bob's character" after two years of play.) Usually has "Current (nameless) Girlfriend 11-" as an NPC; particularly egregious ones may take this several times ("He fools around."). Often applied to characters (I use the term loosely) with totally unrelated Powers with an overarching "concept" ("Um, he's a nanotech-enhanced mutant bitten by a radioactive weasel. Yeah, that's the ticket. He fights crime!") A Combat Wombat may or may not be a Wombat (see above).

Re: How would you do this?
 
How about a Recoverable Charge in which the recovery is being defined as "trying a new task"? And whenever they go home and get a cybercheck-up, wipe the slate clean on what tasks they've done before, just as good role-playing. Works for me.
 
Poison/weapon's easy enough, and already has good explanations.

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

Animal Control says I have to do the dirty work and then call them back.