Clint Barton

Crashing and burning
The orphan joins the circus
Blood red hair he loves

Tony Stark

I.Q. of genius
trapped inside a rich young boy
whose folks ignore him

Thor Odinson

Golden prince from birth
whose father loves him only
Culls brawn over brain

Steve Rogers

Bullied for weakness
Shivering for sixty years
Patriot gallant

Bruce Banner

The bruised boy looks on
Mom's blood stains his white shoes red;
color of Dad's rage

Natasha Romanov

Orphaned by the fire
Trained by the Russian women
Red on her ledger


A/N: I will be very grateful if you find a syllable/grammar/spelling mistake and tell me about it posthaste. And, yes, I am aware that Captain America was technically frozen for 67 years, but it wouldn't fit in the haiku, so I couldn't be that accurate.

I want to apologize for making every single thing I write that has anything to do with Bruce Banner incorporate his childhood. I have a problem, and I could easily write another haiku for him, but I felt the one I wrote did a good job of displaying his fear of anger and of becoming angry, and these poems are supposed to be about how they became the people they are today, so I built his haiku off of my other fanfiction, Thus In Silence.

That paragraph was one big run on sentence. Wow.

Hope you enjoy.