As promised, I am back with another parody-poem! This time the italicized lyrics can be sung along with the tune of one of Kiku's character songs, "May You Smile Today" (I really wanted to go with one of his older character songs to sync up with "Aiyaa Four Thousand Years", but this one definitely took the cake for me). So y'all know what that means... SING LIKE KIKU TIIIIME!
But unlike the first parody-poem, there are minor parts in this that are sung specifically by Yao too. Just a heads-up on that.
May You Smile For Me
Of the beginning of these stories.
A sigh of heresy flaccid
Scattered a
Dainty blossom
From his perch of bark ebony.
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Wafting in a
Cluster of gauzy petals;
Spinning with the midsummer gust,
The blossom made his
Graceful descent
To the Earth awaiting beneath
With eager hands;
Smooth and cool and embracing.
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It came to a halt at the
Heel
Of a crimson boot.
That boot
The possession of
His valour the Knight in Red:
Wang Yao.
Heart-captor from
The kingdom across the seas.
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And as the Knight
Clicked his heels
And marched away,
The
Dainty blossom
Was lobbed into motion once more.
Slipping and tumbling
And twirling and furling;
Grazing
The heel of a
Maiden Blue:
Honda Kiku.
Diurnal luminescence
Renown through the empress' reign.
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Where it stayed,
For the dame hath been cursed
By the spell whom we know by her name as love.
She filled his heart with giggling yearning,
And the oblique of his eyes
Hath yet to
Depart
From his culprit.
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And who may this culprit be,
If it hath not been the
Knight in Red
Himself?
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"Oh Knight so dear",
The dame mourned.
"I am hopelessly in love with thee,
Oh Knight in Red so dear."
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What pranksters these deities be!
To have conceived an
Imbecile
Like love.
Every blink of the Knight's
Fiery eyes
Set the damsel's alight.
Every word of his preaching
Was a song
Which placed the zither to shame.
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And the stars of his soul.
Lo and behold,
Those stars of his veteran soul!
An ebullience
Unmatched by the flowers native to summer's dusk.
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Enough to
Govern his world,
So that all else of
Darned reality
Faded to wisps of nothing.
Leaving the
Pursuer
And his meek, unsuspected
Pursuee
To their chase of wild swans.
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From the distance,
What should the dame perceive
But
The vivacious giggle of the lyre!
The melody seemed to beckon his
Wistful self, as if chirping:
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"Come, my fair specimen!
Come pour your
Bleeding heart
To the joy of the lyre and the song;
A world welcoming
All
That is of the
Heart and the soul!"
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Blind to his surroundings,
Honda Kiku
Began to sing softly to himself.
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And Wang Yao remained posed worlds away,
Oblivious to the feast he was to
The yearning heart of a Maiden Blue.
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"Is this safe, my heart throbs faster.
Feelings that I've never endeavoured before;
It is a world to how I've stumbled, I haven't a clue.
There is a Knight of gleaming red,
And he hath sieged without my consent.
Dear gods,
How could this have happened to me?
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"Who could you be? Where did you come from?
Hath you a lover?
But should such things you mustn't show…
Please dearest Knight, your name may I know?"
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At that moment,
As if
His song had conjured an imp
To hackle his cover,
Wang Yao glanced towards the Maiden Blue.
Fiery eyes
Unmoving.
Fiery eyes unwavering.
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And faster than lightning,
Honda Kiku
Flitted away in a
Muddle of splutters and yelps,
The ivory of his cheeks incandescent like brothel lanterns.
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Unaware
That he was being followed.
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"Why is it so hard for one to be in love?
Drunk and giddy every time you
Come to be nearby.
Love is shameless; cheating.
Playing games feels wrong.
But if it means I'm winning you then I'll play along."
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Pummeling down the cobbled boulevard,
As a
Rainbow of laundry
Flitted over his head,
Honda Kiku
Darted into an alleyway.
There he sagged against the wall,
His slim fingers
Clutching
The banter of his virgin heart.
Was it the chase
Or
His dear knight's face
That was the culprit to blame?
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"Tossed upon this feral kingdom,
That was how you blundered into my affairs.
And since then you wouldn't budge
From my empty space.
If I keep pretending that
I can un-see you in this way…
Dear gods,
Take me now before this love does.
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"What have you seen that's foreign to me?
What makes you glad?
If I pour my heart to you…
Will I be fit to have it concurred?"
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The dame sighed softly.
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"Why has it been hard since I had fell in love?
Fire flowers blooming therein,
Brighter is your smile."
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Honda Kiku
Trailed lifelessly into the streets.
Eyes misty and downcast,
Betraying
Not the thoughts he reserved for
Himself alone.
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Never seeing
The red-clad stranger
He passed by the apothecary
Lower his scroll,
To watch him with
Fiery eyes
Unmoving.
Fiery eyes unwavering.
Heart lurching out of his chest
At
The sight of the Maiden Blue as he murmured:
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"Now who could his name be,
Dearest Maiden Blue?
God forbid,
I think my youthful heart hath been drawn to you…"
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"I am undeserving of
This love that shrieks but never tells you
All the times;
All that it clamours night and day!
I'm a milksop and I apologize.
I can't tell you so I'll apologize.
Nothing but a hapless victim waiting for your move…"
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"WAIT A MOMENT!"
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With a gasp,
Honda Kiku
Swiveled around in
Time
To see the Knight bounding for him.
His grin effervescent;
His visage flushed with the
Flying colours of love
As he waved a gauntlet.
"Wait a moment!
Wait I say,
To the Maiden Blue
Perched
So far away!"
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No other maiden wore blue that day.
Nor were there
Other maidens
Frolicking the boulevard,
But a throng of gentries who turned with
Honda Kiku
To regard their competitor with
A hissing contempt.
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But Honda Kiku.
Sweet,
Milksop Honda Kiku
Was a different story altogether.
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With his indignant heart
Eating away at his desires,
He whirled
In a flurry of navy robes
And charged into the crowd.
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But the Knight's footsteps
Can still be discerned;
His clamours
Drowning the sweet aestival gust:
"Wait,
Wait I say!
I'm hopelessly in love with thee!"
The screams and the
Tiddle-dee
Of a bamboo flute
Kissed the air, begging the dame to remain.
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But love was a
Double-threat
And it carried him away.
Carried
Honda Kiku
Into a secluded carp pond,
To which he collapsed
At its cool mossy rim.
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His heart
Poured out of him with the
Inconsolable tears,
As he whimpered a final
Shuddering verse.
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"Why is it so hard for one to fall in love?
What am I to do now that you've
Concurred my heart's quails?
From your claims I have so foolishly made haste.
Now I fear that these flowers may not return for spring.
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"And to think that I may never know of..."
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"What is your name?"
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Honda Kiku
Craned his neck to the sky.
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And who should
Preside
Beyond the tears in his gaze,
But the warmth of two
Fiery eyes.
A smile so impossibly bright.
And
The ebullience of stars
Threshold
Within armor of glistening crimson.
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Fingers
Tender and warm in the
Cusps of a scarlet gauntlet;
They dried the tears from his eyes.
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And it was like
Fire flowers
Had bloomed in the summer skies.
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For while the cherries were viridian,
And the lyre
Had ceased its coy play,
The tiddle-dee
Of the bamboo flute remained
Slurring.
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Spinning the start of a
New story;
Of a Knight and his Maiden,
And the
Beginning
Of a Beautiful World.
And they lived happily ever after. The end.
Well, that turned out brighter than I'd expected! It was definitely much more cheerier than "Aiyaah Five Hundred Years"... I should probably do something cheerful for Yao too someday, and work on something a little dreary for Kiku. Though I still don't know how I might manage to pull that off, what with the limited selection of character songs I have in my arsenal. But I'm sure I'll figure something out soon enough.
Personally, the funnest part about writing this one poem was imagining Yao's face at the end of the song; you know, when he asked Kiku for his name. Yeah, good ol' times. Almost makes me feel guilty for binge-writing this in a day.
Almost.
-Plumeria-hi