By Ikuko <ikuko_koi@hotmail.com>
Rated: G
Submitted: November 2002
Summary: Exactly what the title implies. Haiku inspired by the show and fanfiction — some serious and some less so.
Haiku are meant to be complete poems. Generally it is not advised to read more than one in one sitting. In Japanese, poetic licence gives incredible privileges and almost all rules of grammar can be ignored. The reader is supposed to figure it all out. In English it does not work this way. Therefore American haiku is a bit more flexible about the number of syllables used.
These are some of haiku I wrote as an answer to an L&C challenge on Zoomway's messageboards. I hope to satisfy a wide variety of tastes. Here are the ones for those of you who feel high-brow today:
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City at peace tonight
Unwanted, two outcasts
above: moon and I
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So you dream of flying
With me? Your head on shoulder
You've not recognized…
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If to comfort as easily
as hear your weeping through door
you slammed in my face…
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Late at night again
Bending with needle in hand
Red cape for my boy
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My only guest for dinner,
My crooked tree… Soon, we'll face
You — dumpster, I — my life…
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And some low-brow haiku, too:
Lonely cry for help
Cuts through editor's speech
How to get away?
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With my heated gaze
I caress the tender flesh
Steak is almost done
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Wish I could call you!
Ducktape on the silent lips…
Ah! Sonic boom in the sky!
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Almost wedding night!
Rival in poisoned cage…
Where did I go wrong?
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Sadness of criminal life!
The only light of hope —
Glow of Kryptonite
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Since you left for New Krypton
Tears pour on your last gift:
Origami from three-inch steel
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From all the fires I've seen
This is the sweetest smoke
Lois is cooking
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Some of the haiku were inspired by fanfiction:
Revelation fics:
No matter how you
Discover the shocking truth
Same wrath of fury…
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TOGOM fics:
Tears for death that wasn't
Desperate search for solution,
Tangled lies… De ja vu?
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Tank Endings:
Time to lament the death
And destruction will come
When I stop giggling…
THE END