Haikus are pretty,
but sometimes they don't make sense.
Refrigerator.
- Unknown
Haiku Kung Fu
- Battle of the Syllables -
Two ghosts hovered there,
One was smug, one bewildered;
The game had begun.
"What did you do, Ghostwr-
iter? I can't get a frea-
kin' sentence out right!"
"It's too late, Phantom!
Each sound, every syllable
Is bound to my spell."
The teenager glared.
"We'll see about that." He po-
wered up his fist with-
"You can't be concise,"
The scribe spirit sneered, swinging
his own weapon down.
"Ouch! Hey, that's not fair!
Even at school they don't beat
us with books-darnit!"
Ghostwriter just grinned
And again brought the large tome
down on Phantom's head.
"I've had enough of-
this," the half-breed growled, flying
up into the night.
"Escaping my sight
Will not free you," said the ghost
to the empty air.
"Wanna bet?" a blast
from the rear, without warning
brought the game to an-
Oh, bother.
"Heck yeah!" Phantom crowed.
"Now who's bad at poetry?
"Take that, Mr. Lancer!"
The writing ghost gave one last, triumphant smirk as he was sucked away into the thermos. It took Danny all of three seconds to realize why. Five, seven, what now?
"Well...crap."
The End
Fail, Danny. Fail.
It's been a very, very long time since I wrote anything in poetry format. This is what happens when I procrastinate by Googling my own username. So here's a game of haiku...by Haiju. :D
For anyone not in the know: A haiku is a Japanese form of poetry with the syllable format of 5-7-5. In Japanese, this isn't too bad because their words tend to have a simpler construction and often can convey multiple meanings. English? Not so much. Hasn't kept people from trying.
Sorry about the constant page breaks. Time taken to write this: Fifteen minutes. Time taken to format it in FFn's blank-line-forsaken excuse for a doc interface? Forty-five. Ugh. Fail Haiju, fail.
-Hj