Category: Video Game Haiku
This is a poem
five > seven > five syllables
with only three lines.
(Sometimes, the smallest observations contain the greatest insights. This isn’t one of those examples; for that, click one of the poems below!)
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Video Game Haiku #22: Vampire Survivors
Together we stand emanating garlic clouds waiting for treasure.
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Video Game Haiku #21: Slay the Spire
The heart is attacked. Each action, a reaction. Do we try again?
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Video Game Haiku #20: Stardew Valley
You named our chickens nonsense words. But then again we were named them, too.
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Video Game Haiku #18: Picross
Boxes make pictures arranged by calloused fingers attached to no one. Originally published during Lexington Poetry Month 2023
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Video Game Haiku #8: The Last of Us
Stray too much off-path, game over. The makers want their story, not yours. Originally published during Lexington Poetry Month 2023
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Video Game Haiku #6: Pac-Man
To chase and be chased. Even if you catch your ghosts, they always come back. Originally published during Lexington Poetry Month 2020.