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Haiku Death Match

Started by Derf, December 08, 2015, 06:04:51 AM

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Derf

I occasionally participate in local poetry slams. I don't win, mind you, but they are fun and help to keep me writing. The last one advertised a special guest who specialized in haiku death matches. I had no idea what that was, but I knew I needed to participate. So I took my set of haiku that I wrote for this site in the Bad Movie Haiku section and went to the slam. A haiku death match is basically just two people at a mic. Each says a haiku. Judges in the audience decide which one they like better. Whoever wins 3 out of 5 decisions wins the match. I lost, but I did force a full 5 rounds in the match. My haiku were about Star Wars, Godzilla, Dracula, Frankenstein, and the creature from the Black Lagoon. I want to do this again.
"They tap dance not, neither do they fart." --Greensleeves, on the Fig Men of the Imagination, in "Twice Upon a Time."

ER

Best of luck to you
In your pursuit of haiku
Battlefield glory.
What does not kill me makes me stranger.

Rev. Powell

Suckas, I am the
Haiku master, and I sling
Fine, rare syllables.
I'll take you places the hand of man has not yet set foot...

Trevor

I am
Not sure how
You write
Or compose
A haiku
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Flangepart

Ash has a temper
"Listen, primitive screwheads!"
Mouth is his boom stick
"Aggressivlly eccentric, and proud of it!"

Derf

Quote from: Trevor on December 08, 2015, 08:42:26 AM
I am
Not sure how
You write
Or compose
A haiku

Three lines, with 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, and 5 in the third. Generally, the first 2 lines set a scene or make an image, and the third line says something that at least pretends to be profound or makes a funny.

Trevor's underpants
Contain things gross and nasty.
His nuts may fall off.

Or something like that...
"They tap dance not, neither do they fart." --Greensleeves, on the Fig Men of the Imagination, in "Twice Upon a Time."

Trevor

Quote from: Derf on December 08, 2015, 11:04:44 AM
Three lines, with 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, and 5 in the third. Generally, the first 2 lines set a scene or make an image, and the third line says something that at least pretends to be profound or makes a funny.

Trevor's underpants
Contain things gross and nasty.
His nuts may fall off.

Or something like that...

:buggedout: :buggedout::bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.