The Happy Haiku Game

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Having just read “The Linking Limerick Game” i have decided to plagiurise the idea (sorry EddyTeddyFreddy but an amazing idea like that warrants a rip off no?)
so this is the format, much like the linking limerick game you write a haiku and in it (underlined, italicised or emoboldened) include a single word idea for the next haiku on the board.

For anyone who doesn’t know what a haiku is it is a piece of three line poetry which has a certain number of syllables in each line: 5 in the first line
7 in the second line
5 in the third line

heres the first one to start it off:

straight dope message boards
allow spreading of great fun
please continue this

its not great but its a start.

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Spreading a link game
BigDaiv beat me to the punch!
I’d planned to start one.

No, truly – I’d been thinking about doing a linking haiku game ever since the Linking Limerick game did so well. Good on you, BigDaiv, for getting it rolling!

My suggestion: The old word be in italics, the new word in bold.

For an extra challenge, if two people simulpost haikus on one word, the next poster try to work in both of the new links. :stuck_out_tongue:

3

A quiet party
Suddenly turns boisterous –
The punch has been spiked.

4

Volleyball is fun!
Best of all is pulling it off:
Opponent spiked!

5

OOps! That second line has *eight[/t] syllables. :o

Substitute:

Best of all, to pull it off:

6

Volleyball the game
which can be played on a beach
by girls in swimsuits

7

When I get in water
I can’t breathe. No bouyancy.
Swiming suits me not.

8

When I get in water
I can’t breathe. No bouyancy.
Swiming suits me not.

9

Buoyancy uplifts:
Spirits, swimmers, thoughts all rise.
All can sink as well.

10

Spirits and liquor.
Lifeblood of the Dope forums.
Entertained by drunks.

11

Drunks weave down the road:
Pathetic pedestrians;
Deadly as drivers.

12

my cd rom drive
is broken beyond all repair
its the driver

13

ignore the bolding around the all in that last post the link word is beyond

14

Beyond all my hope
there is the light of freedom.
When will we be free?

15

freedom comes on wings
like the wings of butterflies
it is elusive

16

Butterflies are free
Free to flit, free to flutter
Free to sip nectar.

17

flutter and stutter
like paper upon the breeze
free as a bird

18

bird has been shot dead
much like this haiku forum
reincarnation

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"Reincarnation
of Peter Proud" - terrible
as a film can get

20

“Film at eleven”:
A promise obsolescent.
Video is now.