Some Go haiku

Not a haiku-

Starting out go is quite daunting
The expert plays are haunting
I do not know what they’ll do!
They know what i’m going to…

To the center!
Too hard to take
Take the corner!
They got me in a snake

Invasion!
it’s hard to fend off
My territory?
None! Soft!

A ddk I am i say
Weak I do but continue to play
A ddk I will stay
But a few digits lower I will say

This slow improvement like a poison
Wearing down my rank like a noise
Penetrating the wall and penetrating the brain
Grace, Poise

A silent ddk learning the ploys

Invasion! Net!
Not done learning yet!
Manual scoring
small cut scores

Manuals, boring!
Lets continue to play!
DDK today
DDK tomorrow

Let’s meet eachother on the battle field on the morrow!

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Nice, I get five stones.
パチ, パチ, oops, I’m dead.
The joy of Igo.


パチ = “pachi”, as used in Hikaru no Go for the sound of a stone hitting the board.
https://senseis.xmp.net/?HikaruNoGoQuestionsAndAnswers

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Other threads related to poetry:

I’m not a poet,
but I can search the forums
to revive old posts

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Is there a Limerick thread? I tried to think of one after reading the lovely haiku

A young three kyu from West Hampstead
Enjoyed playing Go from his bunk bed
With Tesuji in place
Phone fell on his face
He lost an eye and is now dead

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I see what you did there (took me a moment, nearly missed it, doh! :smiley: )

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There was also this poetry thread, in which I burned myself out writing hiakus: Christmas Go Haiku Challenge

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That’s pretty clever, but you know, a real limerick has to be obscene, which wouldn’t quite be suitable for this family friendly site.

A new move is played
The pleasure and pain of Go
Didn’t see that one

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Black and white stones
Time waits for no king or soldier
Moves must be made

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I can rid you of that, just say the word.

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That’s not a haiku,
It should go five-seven-five
Yours goes four-eight-four

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Stunning exercise
of pedantic gatekeeping
via your haiku

If we must be strict
remember the season and
juxtaposition

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Let alone the fact
That pronounced in Japanese
Ha-i-ku is three

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Quickly we digress
to meta fights, forgetting
we used it as two

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Deep and simple is
so much more essential than
shallow and complex

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Back on-topic:


A capturing race
One more move and you are dead!
Auto-atari…

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A capturing race
neither can win, but to fall
in hanezeki

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A TPK is a new soul
With the innocence of youth
And bad at counting

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On a goban
A cherry blossom falls
Nor black nor white

Season is there
But counting and juxtaposition
Is a battle lost

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I see what you did there too!

But on purpose!?

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