Alekhine was drunk,
Rubinstien was in a funk,
Lasker was a skunk.
Chess Haikus
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tony's limericks
are better than his haikus
still both are awesome
Indian Anand,
Topolov Bulgarian,
Rastafarians.
Dec 5, 2010
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#47
To play chess today
is to play chess tomorrow
history repeats.
I played chess today
I will play chess tomorrow
Some things never change
Chess today? You bet!
Chess tomorrow? Fo shizzle.
Got a prob with that?
Listen, I like chess!
Get that through your thick skull, dude!
Don't make me hit you.
Ask me! Ask again!
I double dog dare you, punk!
I'm down with chess! Cool?
Is it like checkers?!
**KICK** Want some more? Huh? Do ya?
I didn't think so.
Dec 5, 2010
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#49
pushwood47 wrote:
LlordLlama wrote:
I don't know why the
spacing was messed up. But the
syllables work out.
I deleted that. Did I accidentally DO a haiku? For real?
Dec 5, 2010
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#50
Holy crap that's neat!
What are the odds of THAT! wow!
....I did it again!
"I am a poet,
And I didn't know it," would be
An apt description.
Spinning round and round
Is the great Matsuoka Shiki
Six feet underground
LlordLlama wrote:
I woke up, made a cup of coffee, sat down and said, "This site doesn't have enough creative writing.
Tony breaks the rules
But he's very hilarious,
And creative too!
I lost my last game.
No fair, you used an engine.
Or do i just suck?
How I am taunted
Then I fork his king and queen
Now chat's disabled.
LlordLlama wrote:
I'm five, seven, five.
It's crucial you understand.
Obey the rhythm.
You're the worst pedant ever. Three points:
- as TheGrobe pointed out in verse, English syllables do not conform to the Japanese 'beats' use in ku; long vowel sounds count as two beats, and anything with 's' on the end adds a beat, too.
- Haiku refers to a style of poetry with a seasonal element. In this sense, not a single thing you have written so far qualifies.
- in the classical sense, shortform haiku does conform to the 5-7-5 mora structure. However, in the modern era this does not hold anymore; things have been described as ku which are no more than a single word, for example.
Which is all to say, quit yer whining.
Alpaca regent
He was adamant; until
someone set him straight.
@T-boy
If English syllables do not conform to the Japanese 'beats' use in ku, why do we even try to do Haiku in English? I like creative writing and all, but Haiku (in English) seems like a bunch of nonsense to me.
Also what do you mean by a seasonal element? (summer and winter etc.?)
Enter the pedants
Their debates will never cease
Problem, Lord Buddha?
Atoms and the void
This is what Democritus
says all consists of.
Pretty insighful
For a science-less culture
The Greeks sure did rule