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Just so we all get a refresher from our literature classes:
Now, then... 
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Summer night stillness,
I watch The Judge and I learn
I need more patience.
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The AI charges!
Wait. Breathe. Flash! Now run behind...
Helmet shatters!. Smile.
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Quietly I sneak,
Careful not to alert the guards--
Especially Poe.
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"Come out you taffer!
Nothing here now. All is well.
Must have been a rat."
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Ice and shattered glass.
Folly working in such cold,
The false flame won't frob.
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Okay, I admit only two of these had the seasonal reference. Your turn. And please keep this topic on track!
Tanka: the standard verse constituting the original historical form of Japanese poetry, consisting of five lines of 5-7-5-7-7 syllables. Most tanka employed two poetic images. The first three lines are about the immediacy of experiencing nature. The final two lines are a corresponding personal reflection or meditation. The first three lines also include two other features: a “cutting word” (in English usually a dash or other punctuation) to indicate a break after either the first or second line, and as setting include a reference to a season, month, or annual festival.
Haiku: the other major historical form of Japanese poetry, which developed as a shortened form of tanka. Haiku traditionally retain the same features as the first three lines of tanka (three lines, 5-7-5 syllables , theme, cutting word, setting reference).
Haiku: the other major historical form of Japanese poetry, which developed as a shortened form of tanka. Haiku traditionally retain the same features as the first three lines of tanka (three lines, 5-7-5 syllables , theme, cutting word, setting reference).
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Summer night stillness,
I watch The Judge and I learn
I need more patience.
--------------------------
The AI charges!
Wait. Breathe. Flash! Now run behind...
Helmet shatters!. Smile.
--------------------------
Quietly I sneak,
Careful not to alert the guards--
Especially Poe.
--------------------------
"Come out you taffer!
Nothing here now. All is well.
Must have been a rat."
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Ice and shattered glass.
Folly working in such cold,
The false flame won't frob.
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Okay, I admit only two of these had the seasonal reference. Your turn. And please keep this topic on track!
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