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Go Haiku
    Keywords: Humour
 A page to compose
 haiku in homage to go
 begun by Scartol.
 {For those who don't know,
 A haiku is a poem
 in five - seven - five.)
 To be technical,
 haiku is about nature.
 This is senryu.

 Awe at this beauty.
 Thank you, Scartol, for the start.
 What clever poems!
 It's two languages;
 "sen-ry-u" could be "sen-ryu" --
 or "se-n-ryu-u".
 Even "ha-i-ku"!
 So, much like "poem", we can play
 with our syllables.
 Evpsych

 A high kyu player,
 Hesitant to comment on
 Games, writes poetry.
 Were I a stronger
 Player, I would play instead
 Of entertaining.
 New players: take care
 When first playing Go online -
 IGS addicts.
 Anti-haiku about Go
 Mirror the subtle
 Intricacies of the game.

--Regyt


 Our words show our love
 Love for go breeds devotion
 Devotion breeds skill

-- Scartol


 Winter frost outside
 Frozen fingers click the mouse
 Playing Go on-line

--MtnViewMark


Japanese syllables are shorter than Engish syllables, and carry less information. So the 5-7-5 form in English is not as terse as in Japanese. For Haiku in English, I think 3-4-3 is better.

So:

 Atari!
 Before dying,
 Kikashi.

-- Bill Spight

So I mixed languages. So sue me. (Japanese-Jewish restaurant: Sosumi.)


 suji sleeps on dry
 goban--now the dragon wakes
 and looks for a meal

-- Nonny


 a lesson in life
 exposes images of
 death in black and white
 attacker becomes
 involved in capture, ends up
 victim of trap sprung
 arrangement of stones
 evolve in patterns that please
 the eye and the mind
 the framework is set
 the blueprints detailed with care
 the earthquake destroys
 bite off too much and
 your belly will explode leaving
 guts exposed, naked
 truth seeks a balance
 fifty-one percent is all
 you need to conquer
 -- BenShoemaker

 Need to do laundry
 I really should walk my dog
 Oh, just one more game...

-- Scartol


(A game, briefly)

 Fuseki chuban
 moyo invasion yose
 filling in dame

(Something all beginners are familiar with)

 Damezumari
 The agony of being
 One liberty short

(I like Bill Spight's thought, though. Much more of a challenge that way. Let's try: )

 Have sente?
 Make the big play:
 Tenuki.

-- KarlKnechtel


 1. My foe placed a stone,
    He is attacking that group.
    Outcome is futile.
 2. I’ve read that move wrong.
    Preparation for the left (side of board).
    Can I defend it?
 3. He controls this game,
    We have both read to the end.
    I must now resign.
 4. Go is very fun.
    Was made in early China.
    You should try it soon.
 5. Beautiful Go Stones
    Are shimmering black and white,
    Contains heart and mind.

--Toorima


Andrew Grant

 Sometimes you can win.
 Mostly you just get beat up.
 That's what go is like.
 Nine stones on the board.
 My opponent is a pro.
 Might as well resign.
 All beginners think
 Go is about taking stones
 This is why they lose.

Benjamin Geiger:

Who needs slate and shell?
Plywood and some bits of glass
Work just fine for me.

Oriental game,
Oriental poetry.
It's a perfect match.

And a SL double meta-haiku:

Don't use fixed-width fonts
When you typeset poetry.
It just looks like crap.
Triple percent signs
Work just like the BR tag:
"Start a new line here."


And some more:

Countless small, dead groups
Rise and call out this warning:
"Don't play go when drunk"

Unlike chessplayers
Players of go seem to be
Few and far between

Go is for dreamers
Chess is for the earth-bound types
Which, pray tell, are you?

'Tis far better to
Dip your fingers in coffee
Than to drink the stones
(shamelessly stolen from Humour Almost Proverbs)

-- Benjamin Geiger


Up all night banging
My head on Hatsuyoron.
At last the dawn comes.


In a running fight
I need to take territory
But do I have time?


Elwyn Berlekamp
Combinatorially
Proves go theorems

BobMcGuigan


An homage to my second over-the-board game:

Even with nine stones
I still lost by just over
One hundred moku

-- Benjamin Geiger


Playing dartboard go
Ain't no thickness in stones here
Just thickness of skull

Games neverending
Seeking enlightenment but
The light bulb's still off

"I'm not a number!"
Says I, but to KGS
I'm "22k?"

Trying Bill Spight's style:

Weak spot there.
Will he see it?
Damn, he did.

-- Benjamin Geiger


Sandbagging is fun,
But lest you make enemies,
Do it on Yahoo.

All were joseki!
Why did I lose so badly?
Direction of play.
(Alternate last line: "Kajiwara laughs." or even "Ishi no Hoko.")

-- Reinhardt


A small mistake means
Very bad consequences.
But, such is the game.

-- Benjamin Geiger


Life's complexities
Magnified and reflected.
Black and white mirrors.

-- Scryer


"Too bad," says sensei
"Your corner stones were quite dead."
"Ten years," says the judge.

-- Blake


2003.03.05 - A Haiku
Each stone, all alone,
A goban unto itself.
There is but one game.

2003.03.19 - Another Haiku
With every move,
I see myself in the stones.
Each game, mirror go.

-- Remillard


Tobi or nobi?
What did Shakespear know of go?
That is the question.

--Skelley


Taken from the KGS User Data of tartrate:

Tartrate fans haiku:

Stones on the surface
above a vast, unseen sea.
Each move hides fathoms.
-- Mirulent

I could beat tartrate
with my eyes closed and hands tied
Just don't feel like it
-- Omoi (funny guy!)

killing nakade
acid rain in the springtime
what is the difference?
-- Zahlman

some zolpidem with
tartrate placed chamomile
flower sleep hour
-- jezork (smart!)

tartrate, bending space
beat Zend at 9 handicap
oh, why can't we watch?
-- mattn

Who is this tartrate?
We know not, yet this we do:
He is not Sai. Sigh!
-- Discipline

Tartrate played seven games
Five resigns, two by twenty
Are we all drunk yet?
-- Noface


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