SciFaiku is a form of poetry invented by Tom Brinck and inspired by the Japanese haiku. SciFaiku poems are short, minimal poems about science and science-fiction topics. They are presented with direct, tangible images in clear and simple language. For example:
 eerie summer solstice:
 hiding the little men
 from my family
''Note that this is, strictly speaking, not a haiku.''

For more details about SciFaiku, read The SciFaiku Manifesto at http://www.scifaiku.com, which started the SciFaiku movement in 1995. See also: http://yewtree.brinkster.net/scifaiku/ and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Scifaiku/
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  If you had a network of underground bases
  and you could flood them with water
  at the touch of a button,
  why would you do that?
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CategoryHaiku