Flash Challenge Spaiku

[mere_ubu]

For this week's fantas_magoria "School Hard" Flash Challenge: "Spike has fought two Slayers in the last century, and... he's killed them both." says Giles. Write a haiku poem for each of those incidents.
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I.
Girl’s fierce blood tells him
what her foreign tongue cannot:
he was meant for this.


II.
Assumes a new name
with his foe’s leather mantle:
Slayer of Slayers.

Comments

[snowpuppies]

Nice progression.


Spike becomes himself
by drinking the blood of the
girls who are Chosen.

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

Wow! Excellent. The second one perfectly captures what this kill gave to Spike: identity.

[next_to_normal]

Yay! I saw the flash challenge and immediately thought of you. :) Nice ones.

[cindergal.livejournal.com]

Spike finds his calling. Nice.

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

Is there any point?
One dies the next is chosen
Spike seems quite a fool



Gabrielle

[carlyinrome.livejournal.com]

Nicely done.

[stars-of-tears.livejournal.com]

Yay for more Spaiku!
Is Spike always inspiring?
Nice execution! :)

[ares132006.livejournal.com]

He was meant for this.

Very powerful, indeed.

[powerofthebook.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Tingly-good. Something very prophetic about those lines...

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Assumes a new name
with his foe’s leather mantle:
Slayer of Slayers.

Yup, the Legendary Dark Warrior is born.

[ladyaelfwynn.livejournal.com]

Yay! More Spaiku!

I really like both of these especially in the context of the challenge, because they only use the info contained within the ep.

All we know from "School Hard" is that Spike killed two Slayers and that one was during the Boxer rebellion. Too many of the other challenge Spaiku include info we don't find out until season 5 and FfL. So, yay you, for keeping the info to what is known from the ep.!

I love the way you distill the story to those handfuls of syllables! You really are able to sum up so much about Spike's identity. Both in trying to separate from Angelus (being "badder"; who could be more bad that a vampire who slays Slayers?) and from William (would William ever have killed anyone, let alone young women?)

Any idea when we will get more FfL Spaiku? **waits hopefully**

[herself_nyc]

Ooooh, I like!

[jamalov29.livejournal.com]

This is utterly lovely , dearest.

[philips.livejournal.com]

Determined to comment! Leather mantle and fierce blood! The spaiku, she brings me back! :throws rose petals and cookies at you: :D

[louise39.livejournal.com]

Great addititions to your Spaiku collection.
Two battles, two vctories - giving Spike his purpose.

[missus-grace.livejournal.com]

Great haikus! I knew you wouldn't be able to resist this challenge :)

Hello!

[prettycrabby.livejournal.com]

You're alive! I knew I could find you here. I miss you terribly... email me soon!

Hope you are Obama Happy like I am!

XOXO

[goodbyebird]

ooo these are definitely my favorites so far! And it's all rounded up with those two verses. Very well done *memmed*

[beloved-77.livejournal.com]

he was meant for this

Indeed, he was. I love the idea of the slayer's blood speaking to Spike. They cannot communicate via modern words, but blood is base and primal, a language that everybody understands.

All hail mere, Queen of Spaiku! :-)

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

Very nice!

They really show Spikes development over the course of his long, bloody life... I'm always amazed at how much you can say is so few words!

[thismaz.livejournal.com]

Very nice. Spike's discovery of a purpose in the first and his attainment of it in the second makes these two incidents, so far apart in time, connect.

[clawofcat.livejournal.com]

The sec I saw that flash challenge, I was thinking, "Oh shit! Mere is going to knock this out of the park." I then laughed diabolically. Of course, you didn't disappoint. Loved the incorporation of her "foreign tongue."

Mere's seasoned knowledge
of canon lends great insight
to her toil and craft

Penning Spike's journey
thrills the masses, earth's happy meals
hungry for doll fic

[moscow-watcher.livejournal.com]

Damn insightful!

Spike-the-poet, interpreting foreign words in his favor. Spike-the-poet turning his second victory into a new title (in the end, it's about the words, you know :)

Stellar job.

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

These are both excellent. Spike transforms from William the Bloody to Slayer of Slayers in thirty-four syllables. Well done.

[philips.livejournal.com]

Girl’s fierce blood tells him
what her foreign tongue cannot:

I MISSED THIS?

The fierce vs. foreign. Some things just stick long after you stop saying them out loud. You found the two words that play perfectly off each other.

I light my unused lighter in honor of you.
::clicks::

Slayer of Slayers. SOS. Hmmm.

::does the Mere dance:: It's a very cool dance.