Lois and Clark Haiku By Ikuko Rated: G Submitted: November 2002 Haiku are meant to be complete poems. Generally it is not advised to read more than one in one sitting. In Japanese, poetic licence gives incredible privileges and almost all rules of grammar can be ignored. The reader is supposed to figure it all out. In English it does not work this way. Therefore American haiku is a bit more flexible about the number of syllables used. These are some of haiku I wrote as an answer to an L&C challenge on Zoomway's messageboards. I hope to satisfy a wide variety of tastes. Here are the ones for those of you who feel high-brow today: City at peace tonight Unwanted, two outcasts above: moon and I _______________________ So you dream of flying With me? Your head on shoulder You've not recognized... _______________________ If to comfort as easily as hear your weeping through door you slammed in my face... _______________________ Late at night again Bending with needle in hand Red cape for my boy _______________________ My only guest for dinner, My crooked tree... Soon, we'll face You - dumpster, I - my life... ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ And some low-brow haiku, too: Lonely cry for help Cuts through editor's speech How to get away? ________________________ With my heated gaze I caress the tender flesh Steak is almost done _________________________ Wish I could call you! Ducktape on the silent lips... Ah! Sonic boom in the sky! ____________________________ Almost wedding night! Rival in poisoned cage... Where did I go wrong? ____________________________ Sadness of criminal life! The only light of hope - Glow of Kryptonite ____________________________ Since you left for New Krypton Tears pour on your last gift: Origami from three-inch steel ______________________________ From all the fires I've seen This is the sweetest smoke Lois is cooking __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ Some of the haiku were inspired by fanfiction: Revelation fics: No matter how you Discover the shocking truth Same wrath of fury... ________________________ TOGOM fics: Tears for death that wasn't Desperate search for solution, Tangled lies... De ja vu? _________________________ Tank Endings: Time to lament the death And destruction will come When I stop giggling...