Civ Haikus

[splunge the 2nd]

Has this been done already?

Egyptians are gone.
They built by a volcano.
That was a bad choice!

Scandanavia
Lands 'zerks in 20K town
My wonder's gone, #$%*!

 

[DWetzel]

Oh, mighty spearman
You are doomed, for I have tanks!
Oh no, not again.

 

[GamezRule]

lolwut?

 

[ChaosArbiter]

A haiku is a type of Japanese poem written a particular way - it has a specific number of syllables per line: 5, 7, 5 (at least, that's how they're used in English; the specifics are actually a bit different). This thread is to be a repository of haiku regarding CivIII.

In case you're actually wondering what the three haiku posted so far are about, they are:
1) The Egyptians founded their Capital next to a Volcano, which erupted prior to them getting a second Settler, thus ending their civ.
2) Scandinavia invaded the city being used as the WinCon city in a Culture Victory, thus preventing the player from winning (possibly by torching the city, although it's unlikely).
3) Tank vs Spearman effect.

 

[GamezRule]

I know what haiku's are, It just didn't click for this thread. I thought you misspelled hiatus.

 

[Sparthage]

lurker's comment: Noooooooo! Not Poetry! I Hate Poetry! But I like Civ and this could get interesting, so I'll subscribe anyways.

 

[GamezRule]

Civilization
It is a wonderful game
O, just one more turn...

 

[splunge the 2nd]

In the same vein...

Real life beckons me
Just let me finish this war...
What!?! It's 3 AM?

 

[need my speed]

Blood and sacrifice!
Now, jaguars, for Quetzalcoatl!
And then tanks kill them...

Well, that actually was about Civilizations IV, but that doesn't matter much.

 

[NickyJ]

I thought you misspelled hiatus.

Me too. Now that I know what the topic is, I'll just say that I hate haikus. They never sound like poetry. They sound like incoherent sentences strung together to sound even worse than they already sound.

 

[GamezRule]

NickyJ hates it.

He really hates Civ Hiakus.

Will he ever learn.


Also, the 5-7-5 format isn't strict. According to my English teacher, it can be 1 off of that, as long as the middle one is longer then the first one. So 4-6-5 is acceptable, as well as something like 6-7-6 or or 4-7-6, however 6-6-5 isn't correct.

 

[ChaosArbiter]

Also, the 5-7-5 format isn't strict. According to my English teacher, it can be 1 off of that, as long as the middle one is longer then the first one. So 4-6-5 is acceptable, as well as something like 6-7-6 or or 4-7-6, however 6-6-5 isn't correct.

Well, the problem is that (at least in Japanese), it's not the actual syllables that are being counted, it's ... something else. Sound noises, basically. Something I never really understood due to being completely unable to learn Japanese, unlike my sisters.

 

[Spoonwood]

The Mayans did milk.

For a quite high scoring game.

All your base belong us.

 

[beastie978]

Theodora's hot
I overpaid her for gems
But she likes William

 

[Bowsling]

Another infantry falls
A spear-man is all that stands
O despair, despair!

 

[nano5896]

Zulu forever!
It's all about the impis
For a short while