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[Arania]

I hope it's okay for me to start this thread. I saw a similar one on the Deadwood board. They come up with some truly fine haikus. I bet we can top them!


Here's one to start:

Rose sees the abyss
In the heart of the TARDIS
She needs a doctor

ETA: Just because nobody else is posting here doesn't mean I'm going to stop doing Doctor Who haikus (Doctor Whokus?)

This one spoilers "The Satan Pit" so I'm putting it in spoiler tags:

Two grunts bite the dust
Not among the honoured dead
Worth less than the Ood

Edited by Arania, Jun 14, 2006 @ 7:46 AM.

[NurseJanice]

Here's my lame attempt:

Rose saves the Doctor
With the TARDIS in her soul
Their's is perfect love.

[glitternixon]

Strange black hole planet
Why is it orbiting here?
Holy shit, Satan!

[SerendipityHQ]

Brilliant lights flash
The Doctor is different
He has hair! Big hair!

[Ember Keelty]

Here's what is probably my favorite scene from anything ever described in a series of haikus.

He's called the Doctor
Heart of darkness, soul of light
The oncoming storm

Sweet Rose, bud of Truth
The girl with eternity
Sparkling in her eyes

They held the divine
Ev'rything which is nothing
Which is simply Love

The Light flowed through them
Two who are "no one" who are
All things that exist

Mortals who are Gods
The two lovers touched and the
World changed forever

One moment trascends
Life, death, and infinity
In a single kiss

[Arania]

Ember Keelty, that simply rocks. That's gorgeous.

[Arania]

Aaaaaaaaand another one. This one spoils "Love & Monsters":

The Absorbaloff
episode was horrible.
I'm not nine years old.

[NurseJanice]

U.S.A. Summer
Boring without the Doctor
Hope SciFi renews.

[Anthrophile]

This is not a haiku by any stretch, but I hate to see this thread die. I'll happily move it if asked?

(Written long ago in response to "1-6: 'Dalek' " Also, it is mean. ;-)

The other day I saw a dalek dying
And waited for a wavelet of remorse
Last of its race, a shudder but no sighing
Sometimes it's best that nature take its course.

Last night I swear I heard a dalek crying
The battle cry of different equals wrong!
The song of all I did was follow orders!
You know -- I'm overjoyed the fucker's gone.

I had a dream of this last dalek screeching
A timbre fit to bleed a canine ear
It could not end its sorry life unbidden
It wept, but there was no one left to care.

The Darwinism of the thing is such that
Each creature must add something to the world
Did it add aught but devastation, aught but horror?
Perhaps it's time the bloody banner furled.

I never learned to learn to love, just hated
This tunnel-vision viciousness absurd
Ungainly, cold, with pointless ire inflated
Extinction then is all the thing deserved.

But now the latest gossip -- woe is me
They're coming back in season Thirty-three.

[Nyghtblade]

So lonely, this god --
all time, all space his garden,
he seeks just one Rose.

Edited by Nyghtblade, Jan 19, 2007 @ 10:59 AM.

[Tenebrae]

I'm out of tissues,
and I now dread all beaches.
Thanks, Russell Davies.

Not one of my best efforts, I'm afraid, but it popped into my head, and I decided to share it. Also, if whoever posted the bunch of Torchwood haikus would like to repost them, it would make me happy. I especially liked the line about Torchwood's tea: retcon. Thanks.

[glitternixon]

Sadly, the forum retcon coincided with the retcon (read: purge) of my class notes (on the margins of which the haikus were written), but here are the ones I remember:

You shot me? Oh well.
Wait, was I in love with you?
Torchwood's tea: retcon.

Ianto, here's a tip:
Avoid heartbreak, find a love
With a safer job.

Nineteen forty-one:
Nice year, Jack's been twenty times.
Now that's good Jack/Jack.

Here's to the guest stars!
Pity you all had to die.
Better luck next year.

[EarlGreyTea]

Boards hiccup a bit.
We scramble to recall all
Our brilliant Who-kus.

[aren3]

Er, this isn't a haiku either, but as there doesn't seem to be another thread for poetry, I'm posting it here. Rose's POV, very recap-influenced.

If you could reach out with your
Hands and touch the stars above
And walk in grace and magic,
For to know the secrets of
Life and death, the sun and moon,
The wolf whose howl sounds like
--Grace. and life. and hope. and doom.
And change, which feels like dying,
--And that's 'cause it always is --
And what hides in dark places,
And what hides down in the pit.
Then, after it's all over,
And the stars and magic fade,
You'd find that life continues
And Grace's wave never breaks.

The rhythm's a bit awkward in spots, because it's easier to do eight syllables per line than seven, but you get seven because I like enjambment. (And making things harder for myself)

Edit: okay, I thought of a haiku for you. It's a bit silly.

Yellow banana
Good source of potassium.
Please do not drop it.

Edited by aren3, Feb 18, 2007 @ 9:05 PM.

[Cosanostra]

S3 ep12 spoilers…


Say my name. Fans want
us to kiss; but torture is
more us, don’t you think?

[Flipote]

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Edited by Flipote, Aug 24, 2007 @ 11:19 PM.

[Asteria]

Time And Relative
Dimensions In Space is just
For the acronym.

One, Two, Three, Four, Five,
Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, and
Three more yet to come.

[Flipote]

..and, now, a Dalek haiku (a Daleku?):

WE ARE THE DA-LEKS.
O-BEY US OR YOU WILL BE
EX-TER-MIN-A-TED.

Maybe that's why their speech is so stilted; they're counting the syllables.

Edited by Flipote, Jul 8, 2007 @ 1:17 PM.

[Flipote]

Two Haiku-plets:

The Runaway Bride:
Two words of power,
Two words of grief and longing:
"Rose" and "Gallifrey".

Smith and Jones
Such a funny man,
Laughing to hide the darkness.
Time you found some peace.

Edited by Flipote, Jul 6, 2007 @ 9:54 PM.

[Ivriniel]

Love them, Flipote.

[Flipote]

Awww, thanks, Ivriniel! I hope to keep these up, at the US pace. For some reason, the idea of writing 50-word Tiny-caps intimidates me, but 17 syllables is about right.

Of course, they are no substitute for Jacob's recaps. :(

Edited by Flipote, Jul 6, 2007 @ 11:36 PM.

[Asteria]

For all your time and
space travel needs just call 1-
800-TARDIS

[Tori Mc]

When the love is gone
Only the monsters remain
Enjoy Season Three.

[Flipote]

The Shakespeare Code:
A grieving genius
Falls prey to evil spirits.
Nighty-night, Shakespeare.

[Flipote]

Gridlock:
Round and round you go,
Inching towards a better life:
You are not alone.

[Flipote]

Daleks in Manhattan:
No more room for pride.
It's the Depression, sweetie:
Time to change or die.

[Flipote]

Evolution of the Daleks:
What kind of monster
Trades his proud monstrosity
For human weakness?

Edited by Flipote, Aug 3, 2007 @ 11:35 PM.

[Flipote]

The Lazarus Experiment:
It takes a sick soul
To give up humanity
For eternal life.

Edited by Flipote, Aug 18, 2007 @ 10:14 AM.

[Flipote]

42:
Falling toward the sun:
The death instinct is winning.
Burn with me, Martha.

[Flipote]

Human Nature:
Two hearts become one;
The wanderer finds a home.
Pity it can't last.