Battlefield Poetry

**RottnJP** · 05-19-08, 11:50 PM

Well, a friend of mine once had some "Sci-fi Haiku" and I wrote a few. Here are some BF oriented ones- If you have a similarly dorky creative bent, feel free to follow suit!

Walker tracks its prey,
Neko slides left, shields rise!
Frozen fields of death.

My gunner is blind!
AA spews fiery death,
down we go in flames.

I wait, trembling
My Pilum gives no warning-
Another crew gone.

Raise a foaming mug
We salute our former 'toons!
Your death, not in vain.

An e-death forlorn,
Was it ones or the zeros
That betrayed your fate?

Voss or Baur, who cares?
My e-bullets rip your head,
Pale white clone lies down.

What were you thinking?
Machine gun draws the tank's ire.
We fly high in death.

**WileECyte** · 05-20-08, 12:04 AM

You have entirely too much free time, my friend.

**QuickLightning** · 05-20-08, 12:06 AM

Haha, nothing wrong with exercising your creative mind.

Nice work

**MotoZ** · 05-20-08, 12:09 AM

Rottn,

Don't put away that quill pen! Please consider submitting those as a TTP author. PM me if you are interested.

Haikus were the first TTP article. We used them to experiment with our authoring software. We didn't know how to confidently format paragraphs, choose fonts, font sizes, none of that stuff. Bigdog ordered us editors to write articles and experiment by playing. So I thought what the heck and tried writing Haikus. Since then I have a soft spot in my heart for them.

Here is the link:

http://www.texasteamplayers.com/index.php?page=27

**RottnJP** · 05-20-08, 06:13 AM

Originally Posted by WileECyte

You have entirely too much free time, my friend.

Heh. Not lately. Work %$%#^%&#.

These are old, but I figured I'd plop 'em in here.

But when you're in the zone, they just roll out.

**Too Much Damage** · 05-20-08, 06:22 AM

This is pulling from wayyyyy back :P

Originally Posted by Too Much Damage

*ahem*
An ode to my love

You are always there by my side
I long for your warm embrace
I always take you on my rides
When you go, you leave no trace
Just some smoke and husks in your place

You are calm, stable, and chemically imbued
Until the fool makes his move
No one thought you could be so rude
Nothing escapes your vicious mood
You sent them to great altitudes

You clear the ground where mines do lay
I take you up high in the frozen skies
To fix the vent where hobos tend to play
On the ground we hear the pilot’s cries
And blind the orbiting eye so high

When the lumbering beast comes near by
We try not to laugh as the newbs all fall
Nearly four to one we never die
Willing to sacrifice all at my call
Your name is well known by all

When your polyethyl nitrate heart beats a single beat
The concussion wave makes quick work of human meat

Ode to my love, beautiful RDX
If only we could find a way to have sex

~Love TooMuchDamage <3

Originally Posted by Too Much Damage

APM placed with care
Strike a soul that is un'ware
Then with one last mine to spare
Kill a medic if you dare

**Too Much Damage** · 05-20-08, 06:41 AM

No target acquired
but yet I feel inspired
what over this wall lay
something I dare not say

So I dig deep in my in my bags
and ready grenade for those fags

so I count to three
send the way of the crow
but it comes back to me
now I can not go

The rock begins to boil
my score soon to be spoiled

**Too Much Damage** · 05-20-08, 06:55 AM

When I sit on my perch
overlooking the gulch
fire started, shelter made
I pull out my lunch
MMMmm marmalade

Then in the vale'
I spot a fast ride
Chopper on his tail
scoped in first time
I take the shot
and totally forgot

two clays in my pack
and none to my back

so I get a knife in the head
warnings I do not heed
and kicked from the team
I think its time for bed.

**PASHA** · 05-20-08, 07:44 AM

Originally Posted by RottnJP

I wait, trembling
My Pilum gives no warning-
Another crew gone.

:9 i like that one. Good job man.

**RottnJP** · 05-20-08, 10:41 PM

@TMD- Nice, another dork after my own heart!

Well, the torrent for my new BF2142 disk is only 58% so...

(Same side)
Frau, Titan Goddess
Can't enter her corridor!
Console held secure.

(Opposite side)
Frau, you Ganz camper!
And quit with the 'nade spamming!
You torment my dreams.