Beards have grown long,
Water splashes on our longboats
Green, the grass will soon be...

Inspired by Cultures.

Ah, how I love giveaways that are original and creative, and require some (creative) effort by the participants - cheers for all this!

I've never tried composing a haiku, so I'm not sure that I'm even doing it right, but here I go:

A spring night filled with
Slain beasts and beheaded men
Geralt's eyes still glow.

Thanks for the originally themed giveaway and the chance, Sazanamistyle! ;-)

Icy storm of steel
brought pain to my enemies
in Noir York City.

Fallen leaves rustled.
It seems peaceful enough now.
It must have been rats.

Darkness is coming.
You are the chosen undead.
You should praise the sun.

Cannot remember...
Traveling dusty planes to
update my journal.

Fog hides monstrous shapes.
Is that an air-raid siren?
What did you do, James?

Insolent insect
running through my corridors,
panting and sweating.

Blond and savage seafarer
Sails from winter lands
Shining sword ready in hand

Völgarr the Viking

Thanks!

Summer in the air,
awaking the dungeon, heroes
in keeper's lair.

Dungeon keeper

Thanks and very nice (and instructive) giveaway.

Lots of lovely poems so far! Thanks to everyone who has contributed so far! Don't worry about writing good stuff, some of the best things in this thread are from people who are apologizing for their stuff!

As for people who are playing guessing games:

Papers, Please? Dark Souls?

And I thought I'd add one of my own just for fun:

Mushroom dew, tiny
Night galaxy, a voyage
To bright Arcturus

Anyone figure out what game that references?

Cunning is the fox
Concealed in shadows he knocks
They see "Just a box!?"

Yes. Got the other three ?

I wonder how tricky the first one is.

Whee~!! *spins in a circle, arms spread wide* I love this kind of thing, I'm in~!! :D

Memoria, it calls
Screens from winter, spring, and fall
Please, Genks, play me soon!

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Erica, she cries
Pain-filled nights and haunted days
Winter in her heart

(reference to the Cognition series)

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Machines can be cute!
Puzzling, solving, moving 'round
Rust in autumn rain?

(reference to Machinarium)

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Puzzling adventure
Wizard, warrior, and thief
Magical graphics

(reference to the Trine games)

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I could go on and on... and probably will! haha

store the mop reluctantly
black snowflake on radar
dodging missiles

[spoiler]

MDK

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EDIT: mop, not broom *facepalm

My Dad is a jerk.
Death yoinked all my bad-ass swag.
I hate this castle >:[

Toy-makers lost son
A travel trough whole europe
On search for mammoths

(Sybera ;) )

And yeah, i'm in this special giveaway ;)

Steal robot powers.
Acquire many upgrades.
Trash them in sequel.


I'm not in for the giveaway, I'm just having fun :)

My favorite game
is not yet on G O G
maybe next summer

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I want to shoot you
be it summer or winter
in the face or crotch

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as it rains outside
a Far Cry from a poet
can I ever win?

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I dig horror games
Crawling around like a bug
That's some Bad Mojo.
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Through a child's eyes
Scary noises, hide yourself
We're among the sleep.
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Doing poetry
Many days I spent in youth
Words of wonderment!


I love poetry +1 for the contest, this put me in the mood to reexamine some of my old works now. :)