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Revolutionary Haiku

Started by TheMenace, November 06, 2017, 08:10:04 AM

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TheMenace

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Let's renew the Revolutionary Haiku thread now until April 19, 2023. There's still time to comment on Washington's winter of 76-77.

Scroll to the bottom and add your new Haiku!


I challenge Appleseed's advocates to create poems in Haiku format, now until April 19, 2018.
You may improve on mine or create your own. Just follow the simple rules of three lines with 5-7-5 syllables. No explanation required--just the poem.
How To ideas:  http://www.creative-writing-now.com/how-to-write-a-haiku.html

    April Nineteen dawn
    Liberty for us today
    Revolution lives

In Liberty,
TheMenace
Sons of Liberty!
Defend the Constitution,
The Law of Our Land
https://youtu.be/w6H12dyS8FI
Joshua 1:9

Ghostring

I fear, in this task
You have opened a worm can!
Submissions inbound:

(Forgive in advance
Any transgression of mine
Syllables are hard!)

Samuel Whittemore
Shot and run through thirteen times
Lived to 96

What number of troops
When grandma can capture 6
Will it take to win?

Isaac Davis stood
His strong men were unafraid
To take back the bridge

Paul Revere's wild ride
Would be a Disney Land treat
Mr Toad objects!

They mean to rule us
We have always ruled ourselves
It's not about tax

A spark. Another.
Finally the match is lit!
For Liberty all!

The Lord Hugh Percy
Distain'd Colonist marksmen
Then reconsidered

"Irregular mob?
They know what they are about!"
Don't make that mistake.

Hezakiah's aim
Across the back of his horse
Was deadly and true

Our brave men disperse
A shot rings out! The troops fire!
Parkers' men are killed

Got a second chance
To set the foes on their heels
At Parkers revenge!

The circle of fire
Is not something from Taco Bell
Hot sauce related

To arms Countrymen!
Forsake Tyranny's iron yoke
The battle has begun!
"Whoever looks upon them as an irregular mob, will find himself very much mistaken...
     They have men amongst them who know very well what they are about..." - Lord Hugh Percy

"If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you.  If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?" - John Gunther

"That's Kirby-level shooting, right there!" - Trailman

Nashville Stage

Quote from: Ghostring on November 06, 2017, 11:12:33 AM
The circle of fire
Is not something from Taco Bell
Hot sauce related

**) **) **)
"There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't."

scuzzy

Came to take our guns
Not today we tell the scum
That day was not fun
An Armed Society is a polite society. Heinlein.

B.C.

What a great idea sir! Thanks for posting this. I know most of us are great "gunslingers", but who can be a great "wordslinger" too?

Traditionally, haiku is written in three lines, with five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line, and five syllables in the third line.

Here is my try at haiku "wordslinging":

April morning sun rise
Under king's tyranny old thumb all
Sun set liberty shines down



This is fun!
"Speak softly and carry a big boom stick"
"Fortune favors the bold"

B.C.

#5
Couldn't resist, more:

Over cold waters
Brought regulars to their knees
Shot heard around the world


They fired ball first
Ever we fought back red righteously
3rd strike now liberty for me


"Speak softly and carry a big boom stick"
"Fortune favors the bold"

Guntuckian

Washington led us
Franklin negotiated
Liberty lives now
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History we tell
Marksmanship we teach
Liberty we honor
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge

Americans never quit.
Douglas MacArthur

stoneknives

Banditie His Claim

Hugh Earl Percy Is Ashamed

Heath Circled His Fire

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"When men's rules are Honorable and Just I will follow them. When I find the laws tolerable, I will tolerate them. When I find the rules obnoxious, I will ignore them. When I find evil imposed or codified, I will War against it. My Lord has made it known and understood to me that to accept the gift of freedom I will alone bear the full responsibility everything I do, or chose not to do." I .......    "This is Appleseed. We are here to restore the Republic. Tyrants, major or petty, need not apply."  I .......

"I stand with the mission, Sir" PHenry

TheMenace

Give me Liberty!
Patrick Henry did exclaim
Or give me death!
Sons of Liberty!
Defend the Constitution,
The Law of Our Land
https://youtu.be/w6H12dyS8FI
Joshua 1:9

TheMenace

Sons of Liberty
Defend the Constitution
The Law of our Land

https://youtu.be/w6H12dyS8FI
Sons of Liberty!
Defend the Constitution,
The Law of Our Land
https://youtu.be/w6H12dyS8FI
Joshua 1:9

NJrefugee

Close eyes, open eyes
Confirm your N.P.O.A.
Squeeze and follow through

NJrefugee

Waco lends Marlins
They are such a pain to clean
Thank you, Richard Jones!

NJrefugee

At your first event,
A patch is not that likely.
Rifleman persists!

NJrefugee

For Ghostring's amusement:

Lexington shots fired.
Dude, let's not go to Concord.
I have my orders.

Ghostring

Quote from: NJrefugee on December 10, 2017, 07:04:10 PM
For Ghostring's amusement:

Lexington shots fired.
Dude, let's not go to Concord.
I have my orders.

;D ;D ;D

Ghostring's pen awakes
N.J. Refugee is great!
Thanks for the Haiku :)

A scout has come back
"Regulars are at the Rock!"
(It's not Dwayne Johnson)

Revere's ride is done
He walks to Lexington Green
"Wait, help hide this trunk!!!"

Barrett's express says:
Regulars have fired ball!
...There can be no doubt

Your Facebook friend count
Can not compare to the men
That Revere brought forth
"Whoever looks upon them as an irregular mob, will find himself very much mistaken...
     They have men amongst them who know very well what they are about..." - Lord Hugh Percy

"If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you.  If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?" - John Gunther

"That's Kirby-level shooting, right there!" - Trailman

scuzzy

Happy Holidays
But I say Merry Christmas
Cause I not Correct
An Armed Society is a polite society. Heinlein.

TheMenace

#17
Gage's secret was out
Revere rode Brown Beauty to shout
Redcoats are about
Sons of Liberty!
Defend the Constitution,
The Law of Our Land
https://youtu.be/w6H12dyS8FI
Joshua 1:9

TheMenace

Washington's bold plan
Christmas frozen river crossing
Victory or Death!
Sons of Liberty!
Defend the Constitution,
The Law of Our Land
https://youtu.be/w6H12dyS8FI
Joshua 1:9

Vinnie

Is it true they say
that LIBERTY doesn't sell?
Have we lost our soul?


TheMenace

Rall said "Let them come…
We will meet them with bayonets"
The Hessian welcome
Sons of Liberty!
Defend the Constitution,
The Law of Our Land
https://youtu.be/w6H12dyS8FI
Joshua 1:9

TheMenace

Delaware crossed
Frozen men march to Trenton
Victory uncertain
Sons of Liberty!
Defend the Constitution,
The Law of Our Land
https://youtu.be/w6H12dyS8FI
Joshua 1:9

TheMenace

Hessians Surprised!
Washington's troops win Trenton
Hope is restored
Sons of Liberty!
Defend the Constitution,
The Law of Our Land
https://youtu.be/w6H12dyS8FI
Joshua 1:9

DeadAnt

Not just Paul Revere
For that night there were many
A spiderweb formed

TheMenace

Colonists resist
Intolerable acts rile
Patriots revolt
Sons of Liberty!
Defend the Constitution,
The Law of Our Land
https://youtu.be/w6H12dyS8FI
Joshua 1:9

FLawyer

Alarm was sounded
Patriots heard, responded
Liberty defended


in Liberty

FLawyer
All men have been endowed by their Creator with the unalienable right to keep and bear arms.  All we have do is protect it.

Molon Labe!

TheMenace

Let's renew this thread now until April 19, 2020.

Tyranny faced
Freedom secured for us
Liberty prevails
Sons of Liberty!
Defend the Constitution,
The Law of Our Land
https://youtu.be/w6H12dyS8FI
Joshua 1:9

TheMenace

#27
April Nineteenth
Against the feared Red Serpent
Our forefathers stood
Sons of Liberty!
Defend the Constitution,
The Law of Our Land
https://youtu.be/w6H12dyS8FI
Joshua 1:9

scuzzy

Corona it sucks
Many people mass hysteria
April shoots cancelled
An Armed Society is a polite society. Heinlein.

Captain

Patriots STAND UP,
Our Country is in danger,
With thirteen rounds - LOAD!
There's things that gnaw on a man worse than dyin'. - Open Range