From: gaillard@panix.com (Ed Gaillard)
Organization: Putting the Ding in the _Ding an sich_
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Message-ID: <3hiqg9$3o0@panix.com>
References: <3gm0n7$1pn@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>  <3h9b21$7eg@news.CCIT.Arizona.EDU> <3hbupo$2f8@er6.rutgers.edu>
Date: 11 Feb 1995 12:00:57 -0500
Subject: Re: Captain Haiku [was Re: ICE.BOB: EYE of the SHRINE Ready for Viewing]

In article <3hbupo$2f8@er6.rutgers.edu>, Zed   wrote:
>soren@GAS.UUG.Arizona.EDU (Soren F Ragsdale) writes:
>
>>I'm Captain Haiku!
>>I don tights and fight evil!
>>Criminals beware!
>
>My greatest foe, with
>Her repetitious fustian:
>The Arch-villanelle!
>
>[100 quatloos to whomever writes a fight scene between Captain Haiku
>and the Arch-villanelle.  I'm not up to it tonight.]

We meet again, Haiku, o best of foes!
Now I shall have revenge on you at last!
This time I'll beat you with my rhyming blows.

	No, Arch-villanelle!
	I'll defeat you, as I have
	many times before!

My pounding meter shakes you to your toes;
bow down before the strength of iambs massed!
We meet again, Haiku, o best of foes!

	I can take my time,
	sneak up on you as slowly
	as snails climb mountains.

Take that, Haiku!  Damn all your Fuji snows!
The time for such imagery is long past --
this time I'll beat you with my rhyming blows.

	My syllables rain
	down upon your head, just as
	cherry blossoms fall!

I love seeing the way metaphor flows,
blood of our battle gouting thick and fast.
We meet again, Haiku, o best of foes!

	Rainbow after storm:
	the colors of our struggle,
	like oil on a pond.

Oho!  the pace of your invention slows!
Soon you'll fall back on frogs, you're so harassed!
This time I'll beat you with my rhyming blows.

	I can outlast you,
	escaping your intentions
	the way the frog jumps.

Now we'll see what the final stanza shows.
Have you escaped again, although outclassed?
We'll meet again, Haiku, o best of foes;
next time I'll beat you with my rhyming blows.

	Ha!  I'll always win --
	when your stanzas run out, there's
	always more haiku!


-ed g.