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Sir Cucumber at The Resigned Gamer has penned four haiku (haikus? Is this like "deer" or something ...) on the essence of video game love, prefaced with a rather creepy comparison to ... uh, butter. Nnnhkay. The chuckles include Disaster Report, Bully (the obligatory dude-on-dude kissing) Mappy-Land (at left) and Wall Street Kid. Enjoy.
Naturally, I want to take a shot at this. The results ... eh. Using Super Mario Bros., I tried to capture the creeping dread of being stood up, and the loser's instinct to cling to any good news in the aftermath. The major literary magazines only pay, like, $5 a line for the best poetry. Tell me if you get your $15 worth here:
Passive aggression!
She's in ANOTHER castle?!
Still, her friend thanked me.
Meditation on Games Past: Haiku for life's little lubricants [The Resigned Gamer]
Comments
Heh. Clever.
I don't get haikus what's the purpose of them?
@Cchrist:
They remove stubborn stains and can be used to even up a wobbly table.
Haiku could be described as being "like deer". Seeing as it's a Japanese word and they have no plural forms, the word is always haiku, whether you use it plural or not. Counters or context would probably indicate how many are being discussed.
So while like deer, it doesn't have a plural because of it's origin. Not sure about deer's reason. I think that's just because we English speaking people are fucked up.
@Cchrist: A haiku is a poetic form. The purpose of writing one is to be artful and eloquent, while at the same time adhering to a strict set of rules that governs how the poetry may be written. This affords the poet with a bit of a challenge, and is why non-free verse poetry is often held in higher regard. Haiku isn't the only poetic form, btw...and it's far from the most difficult. There are others that don't get enough credit (try writing a Villanelle...hoo boy!) and some that get too much credit (limericks, sonnets).
As far as Haiku, my personal favorite (The author slips my mind at this time):
To express oneself
In seventeen syllables
Is very diffi
Haikus are eleghantly simple poems... when done correctly. They consist of 17 syllables arranged in 5-7-5. Personally, I don't like half the crap that people post on the internet about poetry, but this Mario one was pretty clever.
finally a haiku article! kotaku was long overdue for one lol! the mario one was cute :D
Maximum Risky?
Naked fat men are far worse.
Poems are not risky.
Nice haiku. Maybe Kotaku could use that as a content. Especially since it involves counting, that means a lot of people will fail!
Brian Crecente.
Speaks like a scurvy pirate.
In Colorado.
Posting in Haiku!
A man after my own heart.
All hail, Owen Good!
Sephiroth killed her!
Aerith was her name then.
Why did he do that?
wow, my first Haiku.
Ken Kutaragi.
Thought I'd say "I will work more
Hours to buy one".
@Polywhirl:
Is that a haiku?
I think its supposed to be...
You counting needs work.
@PoorPensive:
er...you = your.
@PoorPensive:
lol my typing needs work you= your
@PoorPensive:
Hey there PoorPensive!
I am thinking that you should.
Learn to spell quickly.
And so it begins.
Obligatory haiku
thread on Kotaku.
Leon Kennedy
has feelings for Ada Wong
DAMN! She's a bad guy.
Posting a Haiku,
My spelling was incorrect.
I live with the shame.
I found a few nice haiku about toast online a while ago. I can't remember where, but if you google "toast haiku" you should find them.
Hot Coffee, you say?
Nudity in GTA?
Turns out, just Starbucks.
The Koopa kids own.
Lemmy, Wendy, Roy, Ludwig!
NOT BOWSER JR.
I don't like Bowser Jr.
Katamari Ball.
Rolls up everything you see!
SCREAM LITTLE GIRL! SCREAM!!
Jump through the portal
Computer talks way too much
The cake is a lie.
Underneath the cloak
I place c4 on their backs
It's fun to go boom
@Fishballs: haiku of Portal speaking of glados and cake is just made of win. Nice haiku, +1 to you.
whoops, spacing would've been nice, it was a haiku, just terribly formatted.
Game haikus are old.
No game poems from this- WAIT!
I just got Leaf Shield!
Thank you Owen Good.
An outlet for my weird thoughts
Long live Kotaku!
@Guu:
Before others see,
my embarrassment is nigh.
I too need to count.
You know what, every comment on kotaku should be submitted in haiku from now on.
That should be a perfect way to weed out the undesirables.
@Fishballs:
undesirables
can learn haiku as well.
i.e. look at me.
@SeeOne:
Curses, foiled again.
I'll get you somehow, SeeOne
Just you watch and see.
Damn this weird new thing.
It challenges me too much.
I will kill you all.
Did Cchrist do good?
Sonic quivers in
His spiny blue skin. Pity
Tails is not gay.
The love of our games,
bring us all to kotaku.
Must go outside more.
@Cchrist: They're a form of poetry that originated from Japan. They're just a form of structure, like a limerick.
They sound pretty clunky when written in english though. It's more suited for Japanese.
An old pond
A frog jumps in
Game over
how i hate my job
it couldn't be more wretched
funds my WoW habit
Yo seriously
five seven five syllables
Is how you do it
now we post haiku
it looks silly now but wait...
nope, still looks silly.
"new" halo 3 map
too long since I've played on you
welcome back lockout
Undersea City
Don't pull slugs from little girls.
Extra Achievment
I have been working
looks like I missed something fun
no-one will see this.
This is so stupid
I sniped some noob and i died!
Can I has recon?
right, I'm off to bed
more than a little bit drunk
please don't troll my posts
Technically, doesn't the syllable rule only really apply to Japanese haiku?
Devil May Cry 4
The best parts are played for me
My turn PS3?
A love left for dead
a red ribbon holding back
wants of a cetra
@Cchrist: That's ironically profound.
@onikuwagata: Actually, the opposite is true. If you check Wikipedia, you'll see that in Japanese the haiku traditionally goes by sounds in the word rather than syllables. The syllabic rule is more of an English thing.
@Guu:
Wikipedia
Can not always be trusted
I will edit now
I suck at Haiku.
You all are better than I.
I guess I will die.