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IPSC Haiku

The following are "IPSC Haiku", written by participants in the Unofficial IPSC Mailing  List in February and December 2001.

Remember, each of these three-line groupings is an independent poem: they are not to be read together as separate stanzas!

(How's that for a little culture? In case you are inspired to improve yourself even more, you can learn more about haiku here.)

Pour yourself a warm cup of sake, pull up a large plate of sushi, and enjoy the following small jewels!

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By Vince Pinto

Darth Alexakos
From the Dark Side of the Force
Has a great vision.

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Offer more options
To all the competitors
To broaden our sport.

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But keeping the old
Such as targets and scoring
Everybody smile.

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Long live the great Darth
And his faithful servant Vince
Woof, Woof, Woof, Click, Wheeze.

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By Tom Frenkel

Things are quiet here;
no one writes me anything;
I will take a nap.

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By Jim Boemler

The Geek do haiku
Better than you and me do
Nails the creepers too

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Powder saved for naught
Bullet is but a feather
One seventy four

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Nick and Vinny plot
Rob and Mikey do see red
We wait and wonder

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Scoring and targets
Conspiracy theories
Tempests in teacup

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Lots of lead downrange
More, reload, more, reload, more
Steel stands proud and tall

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Earthworm tumbles down
Bullets choke in the barrel
Pizza saves the day

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This haiku addicts us
Each phrase ridiculous
Two alpha it's gone

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Open-gun fire storm
Bullets whizzing everywhere
Targets unafraid

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Errant syllable
Embarrassment surrounds us
Time to hit the sack

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Targets with no heads
Scores different from before
Hell in handbasket

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By "Jerry The Geek"

Brown cardboard target
Needs two holes. I see just one.
A perfect double!

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Gravity Turner,
What did I do to you, eh?
That you fall so fast?

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Wind blows the steel down.
Range Equipment Malfunction!
I get a reshoot.

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The Safety Area ...
you can't handle ammo there.
Okay to dry-fire.

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Your SV Fails you.
Should have bought an STI.
Dave Skinner says so.

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Area One is
Having a tournament soon.
A Space Oddity!

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The 2001
RO Examination
Has a trick question.

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Rain drops, mud puddles,
Soggy cardboard bends its head.
Put on plastic bags.

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Exciting IP_SiC
Adrenaline flows like wine.
You are drunk with speed.

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Just one bullet hole?
Cry: "It's a Double, Dammit!"
RO will believe you.

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Eight shots through Port "A",
Make mandatory reload;
Else, procedural.

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Sunshine and gunsmoke
And the company of friends.
What more could you ask?

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You're getting tired of
Taping holes with masking tape?
Go buy a tape gun.

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The RKBA
Issues are a distraction:
We just want to shoot!

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Classifier is
Ten Percent over your class.
Too bad. Throw it out.

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Run fast, Grasshopper!
Double-tap all ten targets
In under twelve seconds.

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By Millard Ellingsworth

Quality unknown
Better relative to what?
More poems for you.

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Ten rounds only, frown.
Equipment race is over.
Must now learn to shoot!

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Level playing field:
I Don't Practice Anymore
What have you done, Bill?

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High Cap STI:
It's Kalifornia Dreaming!
Boring guns pass test.

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Fuzzy outline seen.
Sights wobble, pull trigger now!
Speed is what matters.

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Complaining endless.
Where to gather for big match.
Weather keeps them in.

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Les Baer poster boy,
Wise one says: move fast, shoot slow.
Scores continue climb.

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No window constrains.
Three iron bars bisect it.
A-zone has two holes!

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Optics for sissies
Or old men with failing eyes.
Limited best way.

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Focus shift too slow.
C-More so that I see more
Red dot shows the spot.

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By Robert J. Woolley

Eight-shot revolver
Outlawed by the new rulebook
Better luck next time

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But does it matter?
Can't reload fast anyway.
Will make do with six.

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By Gene Bray

shooting faster As
shooter saunters to new box
fast shots, ringing steel

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By Scot Johnson

standing reload, damn
curse it, curse it, little plate
dodges lead tsunami

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