For those of you who live under rocks, ...

Haiku is a minimalist form of poetry that follows a very restrictive format:

• Only three lines, totaling 17 syllables throughout
• The first line is only 5 syllables
• The second line is 7 syllables
• The third line is 5 syllables like the first
• Punctuation and capitalization rules are up to the poet, and need not follow rigid rules used in structuring sentences
• Haiku does not have to rhyme , in fact many times it does not rhyme at all
• Some haiku can include the repetition of words or sounds
• Haiku often uses imagery (often from nature) to paint the thought being expressed

An Example:

Warm glow on my face,

the blade of light at my chest

kills beautifully

Notice the Star Wars theme? That's what we're going for. A Star Wars and/or X-Wing themed Haiku

The rules are you can only post "proper" Haiku's (see note above). If you want to comment on your own Haiku or someone else's, you can do so in grayed out italics below your own haiku.

Finally - you can post as many times as you want - but one post per haiku !

If you need to introduce your haiku, do so in grayed out italics, then have your haiku in the next largest text size

How the light dances,

Fireflies on the console,

"Pull up!", the voice screams...

His saber carving

fast, Into seven pieces

Jedi are show-offs.

Snow insulates,

But I'll use your saber, Wheee!

Tauntaun guts instead...

Like a million lives

crying out and now silenced,

I feel like sitting...

Bravado has failed

Silence... an old friend chuckles,

"Laugh it up, fuzzball"

My green dice, my hope!

tumbling leaves in my autumn,

with faces so blank...

Old fuel on the wind

drifts o'er fields of rust and sand

not so Ebon Hawk.

The rules are you can only post "proper" Haiku's (see note above). If you want to comment on your own Haiku or someone else's, you can do so in grayed out italics below your own haiku.

Finally - you can post as many times as you want - but one post per haiku !

I'm not a big fan of rules, unless the rule is "don't spam threads with back-to-back posts."

WonderWaagh: Thanks for your thoughts on the matter. My intention was not to encourage spamming - in fact, one way to discourage spam is to require every post to contain content appropriate to the thread . Another way might be to say, no back-to-back posts. If someone has the mental wherewithal to write an hundred Star Wars themed Haikus, and can post them in this thread back to back - I would rather applaud them on their fan service than accuse them of spamming. Either way, some people discourage spam one way, some another. The goal is the same. I for one am okay with people posting as many times in a row as they are able to author the sort of content this thread exists to explore - and I think it will be fun.

In keeping with the thread's agenda, this comment is grayed out and italicized to indicate it is a commentary, and as required a Star Wars/X-Wing themed Haiku will follow.

Two suns in the sky,

Harvest ing dew from the morn '

yes, Tatooine sucks

The pod race begins

Sebulba has dirty tricks

Jar Jar ruins all

Anakin grows up

Tusken Raiders steal his Mum

Boba loses Dad

Sith Lord arises

Not even younglings are spared

Order Sixty Six

To Kill a Death Star

"Use the Force!" Obi Wan said

Alderaan Avenged

Four Legged Death Comes

Across the frozen wasteland

Best Battle Ever!

On a forest moon

Furry creatures would become

The Emperor's bane

Oops I broke the last rule!

Jar Jar ruins all. -=Classic=-

Wings all a'flutter,

Republic credits no good

Mind tricks not working

A big man sat proud

Watched her headtails rise and fall

Now bad rancor breath.

Whaaarararrr rumph

Graaa rarrrumff gnarr

Graarr ruh ruh ruh

Shadows cast long hiding places

Who move opposite a bright dancing light

Sith spy Jedi now IGNITE

Actually, a haiku should be written in Japanese.

Even in Japanese, a haiku does not need to follow the 5/7/5 "rule". A haiku should be short, simple, symmetrical. It should also exude some aesthetic beauty in the form written on multiple levels: How it is presented, in what font it is presented, the words chosen and their placement, their very spelling. It should also juxtapose two ideas or concepts and have a seasonal theme. (Although the seasonal or natural theme only needs to be adhered to about as much as the 5/7/5 structure.)

Just so you know.

Snow falling softly

AT-ST's muted steps

Drowned out by lasers

Phone post stop no text formatting. My understanding of haiku is that only the second verse can be in motion. The first and third souks be still.

Also 3 5 3 is as legit as 5 7 5.

Base and dial

template down base moves

Target lock

Ionized, frustrated, unable to move

dice rolled, release to freedom, token removed,

Ionized,again **** I lose.

Sana Solo? Huh?

Hans was cheating on his wife?

No way man, no. way.

Now, young padawan,

Judge me by my size do you?

My ally is the Force.

The sound of footfalls

Ice chunks fall from the ceiling

The AT-AT aproaches

Red blade versus blue.

The old man raises his sword

He invites the strike

Empty robes, all that remain

Victory in death

The odds against that...

"Never tell me the odds!" What?

We're going to die..

The trap has been sprung

lasers flying everywhere

Akbar was correct