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Mornington 5-7-5
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Mornington Crescent
Can be played in Haiku Form
Let the game commence!
Let me start this game
By playing at Belsize Park
Home at Edgware Road
Wise move for Boolbar
But he could be yet undone
With my South Harrow

Undo Boolbar? *grin*
I'll keep it buttoned with Bank
Home at Chalk Farm [natch]
Think you are clever?
What about Dollis Hill loop?
That will spike your guns!
The Dollis Hill loop
Is a cunning ploy to play
So early in game.
The strongest move
Is the move that is not made.
Pass.
Low centripetal
Force allows a Campbell Spin
Settling at Ongar
[Raak] Why sell us short?
You're missing five syllables!
Starting at Moor Park.
The loud silences:
Like the closed river crossings.
Tower Gateway, fring!
Walthamstow Central:
Waiting for the moment when
Someone bifurcates.
I'll trifurcate then!
Angel / Balham / Ickenham
And... home at Goodge Street.
Reunifying
With West Ruislip; puts me in spoon.
What a way to start.
I will start with Bank
Placing blue tokens along
The diagonal.
Invoking Elst's Ploy
I believe I can straddle
To Fulham Broadway.
Not moving but yet
Pushing up the LV by
Playing a *farkle*
The wrong sort of rain
Pulls down outer zones' LV.
Tottenham Court Road.
Looking for open track
North or South? No try Amersham
That should raise back th LV.
Looking for clear track
North or South? Try Amersham
That should raise LV.

The rules of haiku
Are of counting syllables:
Five, seven, then five.

As the game title says, "5-7-5"...

Capping the LV
To no more than 3.2
With Walthamstow. Yes.
Crossharbour & Lon...
...don Arena is quite diff..
...icult to make fit!
Going around but
Not quite a circle. Now is
the time for Oval.
Shapeshifting cascade!
Squashing poor Boolbar's Oval
With my posh Sloane Square
Never mind all that
put purple podumes on Bank
no diagonals!
Now I join the game
The start is all important
But I must *farkle*
I too can now start
Heading south of the river
Ho! To Clapham South.
Rebounding Software
Into High Street Kensington
I strile to Uxbridge.
Yet more hopefuls come,
Try to follow at their peril,
Knip for you; Elm Park
Pickering northwest --
Insufficient red tokens --
Harrow-on-the-Hill.
I pick up my prize
Two gleaming silver podumes!
And move to Morden
High Street Kensington.
A move which sets up a spike
Along DLR.
Red token from Bank, Power failure - Northern Line
Cuts LV in half.
sorry

Red token from Bank,
Power failure - Northern Line
Cuts LV in half.

Looks like I have been
badly derailed at Elm Park.
Dammit. Bugger. F***!
I cannot join, then.
That strands me at Upminster
I'll spectate from there.
Sucked into the loop!
The repetitive Dollis
Hill we all dreaded.
A costly side move,
Barely dodging loop entry:

Willesden Green, gently.

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Gag me with a spoon, but my
HTML sucks.
A flick of the wrist
A nudge with the right buttock
And Cockfosters bound.
Long left straddle
Red token at Colindale
Tea and two biscuits
That puts me in spoon
So I shall raise two fingers
And sulk at Debden
Avoiding knip
To Roding Valley I'm bound.
Shiny gold podume!
Still at Dollis Hill
Bah, humbug. I hate Dollis.
At least the rain's stopped.
Trapped on Jubilee!
A lifeline for Tuj? Not now...
Swiss Cottage, revenge!
To Latimer Road
I move, there depositing
Fifteen blue podumes.
No-one moves, a pause. They await with baited breath. Suddenly - Balham!
(Let's try again)

No-one moves, a pause.
They await with baited breath.
Suddenly - Balham!

Like lightning I strike
A flash from heavens to earth
Illuming Morden.
For my first move here
I play conservatively:
Tower Hill looks safe.
To hell with safe play
I need excitement, and fast.
Walthamstow Central
Bank, For Monument
I suppose. Or should that be
Monument, For Bank?
I have to visit ESSEX, and go to a valley.

Roding Valley

Let's get this moving
Heathrow 1, 2, 3 and 4
For ALL departures
It is 'plane' to see
That Heathrow Terminal 4
Is now the best move.
The crowd has gone wild!
(Some crowd; most of them went home).
High St. Kensington
Amidst the shadows
I stalk towards Marble Arch
Inverting the snoods.
Whilst I went gaily,
Through Elephant and Castle,
I dropped my podumes.
If there is one thing
That I truly cannot stand
It is the haiku.
I tend to agree
But, dearest friend JLE,
It's art in MC.
Apparently.
Don't know about you,
But I think that Golders Green
Restores my spirit.
Podumes a-plenty,
Token stacks climb heavenward
So:Lancaster Gate
I shall grab just one,
As I needed the plastic.
Now, make for Loughton.
Battening hatches:
Caledonian Road and...
Barnsbury! So there!
Thus I chance upon Edgware Road, Who is so wise that could have knowed?
Is Topaz playing
The same game as we all are?
Clearly Tower Hill.
He/she is, but lines
are not his/her strongest point
Me? Queen's Park Perfect!
Wherefore the Rangers?
Perhaps they be lurking in
the depths of Green Park.
To the uninformed
This move could look quite stupid.
What do they know? Bank.
My humblest apologies, fair grindlings My HTML should prove to be grander Should I penetrate the walls of Museum...?
Damnation and curses, my train has gone twice its terminal velocity at Museum... I have retired from this game... the pace was simply too fast for a poor old codger such as I, trying to get from Museum.
Alas, Topaz, had you been the smartest of the game, you should have followed the bakerloo line to Regents' Park

Up the Northern Line
The End's in sight. Here we are!
Mornington Crescent.

Laughing at mistakes
Made by assassins. Ha-ha!
West Acton. Full stop.
Resuming this game
With verve and alacrity -
Onward to Leyton!
Tottenham Court Road!
That's where we all aspire to,
In our wildest dreams.
I don't have wild dreams
So I have to make do with
boring old Chalk Farm.
Aspiration Trumped,
Gil: Glorious Ascendant
Forces Warren Street
Interestingly
I can now half the LV
And advance to Bank.
Fresh and new to game
Stand in awe of veterans
And head for Burnt Oak
Knightsbridge (or maybe Latimer road??? Never)
Let's go to Old Street
Brandishing podumes so green
And strangely tacky.
Lacking clearer hope
Gather stray tokens, and move
To Fulham Broadway
I'll play Cutty Sark
(for Maritime Greenwich) - Bang!
Hit your battleship.
That was not clever.
It clears the way to Green Park
You know what that means.
Indeed we do know
And must ask why you force me
To play Dollis Hill
And in turn, escape
Via Ongar, threatening
MC in seven.
MC in seven?
We'll soon put a stop to that!
Kings Cross St Pancras.
Kings Cross St Pancras?
I was going to go there
So, Shoreditch instead
*whiskering* Temple.
MC now impregnable.
ner ner ne ner ner
To shed my LV
Forces me all the way out
To Colindale. Rats!
Dagenham Heathway!
LotUS, Chalky, Kiwi Chris,
All now caught in Spoon.
MC in Seven?
Just your moves, or total?
Almost there - Archway!
You seem to ignore
The power of Aldgate East
To distort the map
pen] Academic
Now at least. Limiting the
Damage: Chiswick Park
Oh no, caught in spoon
what oh what can I do now?
limps off to Croxley
Kiwi Chris is blocked:
Purple tokens on Croxley.
Main move to Holborn.
I've just bent my Spoon!
That means I can progress to ...
Wait for it ... Fairlop.
First spoon'd and now block'd
Times are hard for Kiwi Chris
Flees now to Blackwall
Blackwall is no use!
Your number is almost up!
Westminster / Temple
I'm feeling unwell
Ravenscourt Park? No help there!
Oooh, OoooooYAKABOO
Needle nardle noo
Quickly moving to Neasden
(Beware of Lurgi)
You silly twisted
Boy you. However, I play
Walthamstow Central
Feel a bit beset
Seek refuge with the scout troop
Found in East Finchley
East? No, West Finchley
To prevent Chris from using
The secret tunnel.
West Finchley? Ha ha!
My trap is sprung with Oakwood
Darren now in spoon
Kiwi Chris. Spoon? Pah!
Custom House for Excel which
places you in knip.
Oww, Knipped in the bud
My boyish good looks ruined :)
Knips off to Hampstead
And now play can start
With a strile to Oval, yes!
Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! No.
The fountain, lions,
Nelson's Column. This is not
Mill Hill East, is it?
Is this North Ealing
I see before me? Ah no,
Nought but Perivale.
Out Out damned spot!
Is there a laundromat at
Leyton, I wonder
You'll find no dirt here
So says my new lawyer friend
In Canary Wharf.
A phantom player
Plays a hidden ghost station
Then leaves silently.
The Phantom Player!
Out Out accursed eidolon
Flees to Bethnal Green
Moves barefoot to Bank
Does not notice sharp podume
Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!
Movement projected
Exceeds Charing Cross limits
Starting global spoon
Global Spoon? Well now,
We'll see about that when I
Shelter at Ongar
Global Spoon you say?
Stocks up on anti-spoon pills
At Brondesbury
Global Spoon? My arse.
Flounce all you like, Darren, but
Leyton will triumph.
Sliding through via
Charing Cross for two podumes
And to Leytonstone
Is this a spoon which
I see before me? The hand
le toward my hand?
Come, let me clutch thee
I have thee not, and yet I
See thee still, at Bank
Not me, squire! You Err.
Your bifocals need changing
For I'm in Stanmore
and have been for Lo! These many days and then some, Alone and Adrift
I notice Chalky
Has played the famous "my arse."
This means Farringdon
Escalating the
Violence, and invoking
Uh-oh!: Upton Park.
Fresh from the weekend
I check my favourite game
And move to Archway
Stale after the pub
I check my favourite game
And then return here.
(Oops, a bit too loud)
After a long shift
I am pleased to see my home
MC on the screen
(and miss the point entirely)
Dropped in yonks ago...
Harrow and Wealdstone!
I say, and then leave.
When I am sober
I can count my syllables
before I submit.
Release those podumes!
[Standard mis-counting forfeit]
Now I'll play Oval
A shot in the dark
And a really sinister
Podume found at Bank.
Taking heed of the
Sinister Podume alert
Hiding at New Cross
Poisoned litter to
Scatter at Wimbledon should
Bag a few Wombles
What have the Wombles
Done to you? Moving to build
A refuge at Bank
All those Christmas songs!
You should mind your own beeswax
Meanwhile, Leicester Square
But they are so cute
Didn't know they made beeswax :)
Anyway, Uxbridge
Only heard one song.
What are the other ones then?
*Hops off at Temple*
The Womble songbook
Is easily found.Google!
Fleeing to Mile End
The commentator
speaking in hushed tones tells us
the endgame is near.
Speaking in hushed tones
I tell the players that it's
A game of two halves.
I'll have to *f*a*r*k*l*e*
While I shoot myself in the
HTML head.
Simons continues
To comment without playing
I move back to Bank
Making a late tilt
At undeserved glory
I essay Bond Street!
(that's "un-de-ser-ved", BTW)
Reasserting my
Authority (podumes-wise)
One more at Poplar.
Perhaps I should frume
But even now I think that's
unduly forward.
once again I see that
the haiku game is living
I say: "right foot Bank"
and spontaneously forget how to count...
Counting carefully
Moving off to Mill Hill East
Scheming a dark scheme
Is everyone lulled?
I don't really need to know,
I'm just curious.
Exploding onto
The scene and pushing onward
To Fulham Broadway
Looking around I
see that the game has moved
to Mill Hill, the Hale
The time is now right
For me to enter the game;
Mornington Crescent.
I call thee offside!
However, I'm not, and:
Mornington Crescent!!
*shouts, screams, generally goes wild for Tuj*
I did enjoy that
But all good things must come to
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