I had been wanting to do a monthly series on this site for some time but had been struggling to decide what to do. Then, one day, it hit me: why not write and post a collection on Star Wars Haiku on the first Tuesday of every month and call it Haikuesday. Simple to pull off but also stunningly brilliant (*pats self on back*). Yet, that was not the only idea I had. “What if,” I thought to myself, “I allowed my followers on Twitter to vote for the Haiku topic.” And that is precisely what I did, presenting four options in a poll which resulted in this inaugural Haikuesday post which is all about DROIDS!
I hope you enjoy my Star Wars inspired syllabic creations and be sure to follow me on Twitter to vote for the next Haikuesday topic!
Scene: Horizon Base;
Chopper ignores the mission.
Instead, goes shopping.
Interrogator
IT-O deals in torture
Confessions abound
I have to be frank:
That Vader built 3PO
is still really odd.
“Inventory Droid!”
AP-5 gets no respect
Defects to Rebels
Construction droids on
planet Lothal, Leonis
calls them primitive
Techno Union owned
Baktoid built battle droids for
CIS armies
I have to be frank:
I think 3PO’s red arm
is really stupid.
Scene: On Tatooine
Jawa scavengers sell droids.
Stolen? “Utini!”
Guardian Corps built;
at Third Battle of Vontor
Xim’s droids defeated
You know, in a way,
the Force also woke R2
from low power nap.
K-2 reprogrammed,
He’ll be there for Jyn because
Cassian says so
I can’t help but feel
the Clone War should have been called
the Great Droid War…thoughts?
Jek-14 no more
He is the Maker of Zoh,
repairer of droids
Scene: On Mustafar;
Anakin and Ahsoka
battle nanny droids
Programmed by CorSec,
Whistler joins Corran Horn in
Rogue Squadron battles
Fatal Alliance,
Republic and Sith soldiers
battle Fastbreeders
“Attacked by a droid…
…An old Clone Wars battle droid.”
Bones beat up Solo
Battle of Naboo
Primitive Gungans engage
Wall Street’s droid army
Writing droid haiku
Imperial Talker starts
to feel quite hungry
Upsetting a droid
No one worries about that…
3PO is wrong
“Primary function:
burn holes through meatbags, Master.
…how I hate that term.”
Serpentine Sentries
Roaming ruins on Mataou.
Aphra should beware.
Poor tortured Gonk Droid!
What did you do to upset
His Largeness, Jabba?
Professor Huyang
guides Jedi younglings as they
construct lightsabers
If not much trouble
Could someone ask Pablo if
Droids show is canon?
Scene: On Iego;
Honorable Jaybo Hood
Builds droid servant force
I have to be frank:
I think Triple-Zero and
BT-1 are lame.
ASN transports
lethal kouhun to their prey:
Naboo’s Senator
Rebel base found by
An Imperial Probe Droid!
Time to flee from Hoth
Clone Wars Veteran
Terrified of Jedi Knights
Roger Freemaker
“Those droids were stolen,”
Young Luke tells Uncle Owen.
“Yeah, no shit nephew.”
Scene: Planet Scarif;
Jyn and Cassian in vault
K-2 dies for them
Downfall of a droid
R2 lost at Bothawui
Anakin freaks out
Loathed by Yuuzhan Vong
Droids targeted and destroyed
by the invaders
CZ-1G5
is a very bad droid in
High Noon on Jakku
“Blah Blah Blah Complain
Blah Blah Blah Complain Complain!”
“3PO! SHUT UP!”
I have to be frank:
I think that BB-8 is
so adorable!
Imperial droid
C2-B5 in Rogue One.
Wait! Did it appear???
Droid General Grevious
Killed by a shot to the chest;
How uncivilized.
LOVE THIS! Haiku + Star Wars + your humor = Genius!
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Hey thanks! I appreciate that! Was fun to “think” about Star Wars in a different way for once by keeping things short and brief.
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Well, I am officially in love with this new series. I CANNOT WAIT for the next Haikuesday!!
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Hot damn! Which one did you like the most?
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I have to go with the Uncle Owen one :). I’ve legitmately been laughing about that alllll day.
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So true about C2-B5!!
These were so delightful to read! 🙂
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Thanks so much! I appreciate the feedback and am looking forward to writing more down the line!
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Bravo, Sir! I love the “Great Droid Wars” one!! Great job. Can’t wait for more!!
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Thanks so much! Means a lot!
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Very enjoyable. I especially appreciated the reference to HK-47 with the meatbags
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Wouldn’t have felt right to exclude HK-47. Besides, the fact that I was able to just turn one of his quotes into a workable haiku was reason enough to throw him in.
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What an awesome idea for a series! Kiri at Star Wars Anonymous does haiku sometimes also.
Love that you dug into the EU for Whistler, HK-47, etc. You covered so many bases! I think the first one might be my favorite 😀 Gotta love Chopper.
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Wouldn’t have been right not to cover as many bases as possible. That will be a big part of every future post, doing a nice cross-section of ALL Star Wars, not just the new stuff.
Glad you enjoyed it!
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Yeah – you copied me! I do one every Friday(ish). Lol, that’s okay though, it’s a big universe.
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haha only sooooooorta copied ya :-p
Since doing the haiku posts during my week-long series, I had been thinking about doing a monthly haiku series for a while. Just hadn’t gotten around to it until this month.
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No sorta. You did. But I honestly don’t care at all. Haikus! I love haikus! Drinks all around! (bonus points if you know what movie I twisted that quote from)
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Jack Sparrow!!!! (The Curse of the Black Pearl, right?)
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Yes good job! Wooo
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“I can’t help but feel
the Clone War should have been called
the Great Droid War…thoughts?”
History often
takes cues from one point of view
when naming events.
Maybe Count Dooku
referred to the conflict as
the Great Droid War too.
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