Musashi’s Quaiku: The Railgun, Ll4m45, Sweet Lava
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Glowing deadly blue
Hands grip cold metal
Bouncing pineapple |
Where are you, my foe?
Red flower blossoms
The blood stops dripping
Bright white light flashes |
The Railgun
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He leaps off The Edge
Blue-white spiral light
Its quiet humming
I fire – I miss. Damn!
Unseen by my foe
I see you respawn
Thy flesh disappears |
A slick, quick flick trick |
Llamas
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You helpless newbie
Foe hides in darkness
My first rocket jump
Jump – circle strafe – fire
Hey! Keyboard llama |
I need a new card
You have no morals
After-kill taunting
Kill me, why don’t you? |
Sweet Lava
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I leap, fingers stretched |
How I love the reds |
| What is a Haiku? |
| A haiku is a form of Japanese poetry with a defined three-line verse structure. Each line must contain a set number of syllables, thus giving the haiku a certain flow. There are several variations, but the most common structure is a five-syllable first line, a seven-syllable second line and a five-syllable third line. Traditionally, haiku are poems about nature, stressing the ideas of minimalism and immediacy.
Inspired by a PlanetQuake Haiku competition, I began writing a few for my own enjoyment. These were “Quaiku” – haiku with the specific theme of Quake. I sent the first couple to a good friend of mine, Dionius, who responded with a bagful of his own. From there, we just got carried away…the results are now up on this site :) Haiku that I wrote are in the left hand column, those by Dionius are in the right hand one. If you have a haiku you’ve written and want to share, by all means send it in and I’ll stick it in the relevant section. |
| Quaiku |
| These haiku about Quake are split into further subsections, each concerned with a particluar aspect of the game – the railgun, llamas, lava, and so on. They’re mostly tongue-in-cheek…after all, it’s Quake, baby!
For an excellent Quaiku site, visit Quake, the Universe and Everything. |
| Other Game-Related Haiku |
| Why stop at Quake? There’s a whole ton of classic games out there for inspiration, especially from the good ol’ days when we had 8-bit machines that ran at a whopping 1MHz. |
| SciFaiku |
| And of course, Science Fiction lends itself admirably to haiku themes. These haiku are mostly about the great SF films and books that have influenced us, mostly. |
| https://web.archive.org/web/20010703053136/http://planetquake.com:80/musashi/haiku/haiku.html |
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