Japanese Swarm Haiku, early-2065: Datapoints

On a river bank

One hundred lifeless bodies

Served to a Horus.

- Unknown

On a winter morn

Amid a snowy city

Seven Horuses.

- Yasumi Basho, soldier of the JADF

No cherry blossoms

Sprouting in the spring country

But the explosions.

- Unknown

Here, the old poets

Reflected on the spring day

But it is no more.

- Japanese poet, Niigata Prefecture

Life is temporal

On this frigid winter month

When the bots hunger.

- Unknown, Takikawa

A ruined Scarab

On a spring field full of death

Is that my son's body?

- Unknown

Even Mount Fuji

Cannot give me relief from

those metal giants.

- Matsuo Okabe, General of the JADF

The pure land awaits

I in Myōkō, my home

To leave Samsara.

- Esuko Narita, Myōkō

The quiet temple

Knew many wars and battles

But not like today.

- Masami Tani, soldier of the JAMDF

Rain patters my roof

On a cloudy spring evening

Blood spills down the eaves.

- Unknown