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Another Poem About StarCraft

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SpiralArchitect
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States2116 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-11-14 23:53:00
November 14 2008 18:35 GMT
#1
Invisible Fear

Protoss enemies are my favorite to beat
There is no other that I love to defeat
Most of the time their army I destroy
Except when that unit, they deploy

My third base has finished just fine
I believe his strategy suited to mine
So I lay my Spire to slowly create
And lay back in my chair to silently wait

Suddenly a voice cries "We're under attack!"
To my dismay all my drones die before I react
Now the quiet warrior moves to my third
To destroy it silently, without a word

Overlords creep to the spot so slow, still
I cannot speed them up with only my will
Once again I cower in invisible fear
The future, for me, becomes all to clear

Alt+Q+Q out of this horrid excuse of a game
I retreat to my bed to cry the night in shame
Though sleep will be hard to find this dark night
As DTs haunt my dreams and cause me fright




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Zoler
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Sweden6339 Posts
November 14 2008 18:37 GMT
#2
haha awesome!

I agree DTs are lame
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village_idiot
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
2436 Posts
November 14 2008 18:40 GMT
#3
I once thought of a haiku in my head. It involved Dark Templar, drones and swearing.

Don't remember it anymore though.
Durak
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada3685 Posts
November 14 2008 18:41 GMT
#4
Nice poem. This is the exact reason I always send an overlord to my third. Screw protoss.
Raithed
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
China7078 Posts
November 14 2008 18:50 GMT
#5
hahaha. dt ftw.
Ozarugold
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
2716 Posts
November 14 2008 19:02 GMT
#6
Lol~ awesome.

Freakin' Dark Templars...
this is my quote.
Jank
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States308 Posts
November 14 2008 19:35 GMT
#7
this is why i always try to position my overlords strategically in the beginning so theres one where I'm going to expand. I forget a lot tho =( Fucking dts
"You don't know you're wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day." - Michael Parenti
CDRdude
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States5625 Posts
November 14 2008 19:50 GMT
#8
The followup to this poem should be titled "Ventral Sacs"
Force staff is the best item in the game.
Pokebunny
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States10654 Posts
November 14 2008 20:40 GMT
#9
Nice ! 5/5
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GHOSTCLAW
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States17042 Posts
November 14 2008 20:43 GMT
#10
Nice poem. DT's are awesome when you use them, and suck when they're used against you.
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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24744 Posts
November 14 2008 20:57 GMT
#11
I really enjoyed it. I'm not expert on poetry but I do have one comment. As I read it, the syllables were mostly lining up in my head, but there were some lines where I thought shortening or lengthening them by one or two syllables would line them up better with the previous/following rhyming line. Just for an example...

"Alt+Q+Q out of this horrid excuse of a game
Retreat to my bed to cry the night in shame"

The way I read this in my head is...

"Alt Q Q out of this hor- rid ex- cuse of a game
Re- treat to my bed to cry the night in shame"

Note how the first line has 13 syllables while the second has 11. An example of a possible solution:

"Alt Q Q out of this horr- i- ble game"
"Back to my bed to cry the night in shame"

Lines up with 10 and 10... honestly doesn't seem like the ideal fix either because a sort of emphasis seems to get put on 'the' but you get the idea I hope.

Is this just personal preference?
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conCentrate9
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States438 Posts
November 14 2008 22:13 GMT
#12
Meter is supposed to match up like that unless you are trying to direct readers to a specific point, then you may feel comfortable to have a nonparallel meter.
Tensai176
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
Canada2061 Posts
November 14 2008 22:13 GMT
#13
Lol once you talked about a unit that you hated, somehow i knew it was teh dt...
We see things they'll never see
renegade_zerg
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
Korea (South)525 Posts
November 14 2008 23:07 GMT
#14
Someone nominate this man for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Heyoka
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Katowice25012 Posts
November 15 2008 01:15 GMT
#15
This inspired me to write a haiku

Corsairs and DTs
Friends forever, boundless love
Drones and ovies; dead
@RealHeyoka | ESL / DreamHack StarCraft Lead
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