The moment I learnt George Takei voiced Seki I couldn't NOT make this (sorry Akemi, you're not stupid and Seki would never say this but damn this works)!
I'll be posting prompt words every week or so for all those fans who have an interest in both Blue Eye Samurai and poetry...
My main interest is Japanese micropoetry like haiku, tanka, and haibun, but all poetry is welcome! Please note that the 5-7-5 syllable structure is NOT a requirement and is something of a myth (https://www.graceguts.com/essays/urban-myth-of-5-7-5). Even Japanese haikuists don't use it, unless they're writing in a very traditional style.
This week's prompt words are:
⚔️ mixed metal ⚔️
Leave your poem in the replies!
Resources:
How to write haiku: https://www.ahapoetry.com/Bare%20Bones/bbtoc%20intro.html
About tanka: https://www.graceguts.com/essays/what-is-tanka
Nothing gets me like…that dynamic…like…Akemi using sex to get men to do what she wants but maybe actually having sex with Mizu because she really wants to and then…that touched starved raggedy bitch just melting away under that petite porcelain hands…just end me!🫣
My Roman empire is how if Mizu hadn't doomed Akemi to her arranged marriage with the Shogun's son, Akemi would have never set out on the path of greatness.
Had Mizu not ruined her engagement, Akemi would've never run away from home, braved the world or met Kaji and learnt how to survive within her means.
Likewise, if not for Akemi, Ringo would've been stabbed and Mizu strangled to death. Had Akemi not attacked Mizu with her knife, Mizu's sword would be incomplete.
Without having betrayed Akemi, Mizu wouldn't have grasped the value Ringo, Taigen and Eiji have in her life. She wouldn't have understood the importance of love, friendship and weakness.
Anyone remembered Ringo saying to Mizu "you got a girl, a pretty one. Wait, how does that work?"
Implying he knows Mizu is a women Akemi is a women and he asked how it works. 😂 (it's just pure and innocent, this man needs to be protected at all costs)
And Mizu more or less says no touchy. She's Taigen's and I don't want to get in (more) trouble.