Does it snow in Domino?
What's Yugi's New Years' like?
Does grandpa make hot cocoa
On a cold December night
When the core four finally call it
A well-fought snowball fight?
Does Joey pull out his dueling deck
And grab a comfy chair,
And Yugi accept, take off his hat,
And shake snow from his hair?
Does Mokie knock as they begin,
His brother too, irate,
To say when next they duel, he'll win,
And not because of Fate,
And by the way, good wishes,
He adds sincerely, swallows;
He scowls and leaves, quite vicious,
And Mokuba winks and follows.

It snows at the Academy,
Or seemed as though it did.
The final day of finals,
Could the whole school get snowed in?
Could Dorothy whip up sandwiches
And Chumley help out too?
For the desert-going students,
Does this seem like deja vu,
Except-- a plus-- no duel ghouls,
And this time lots to eat,
Within minutes, a few duels
Spring up, safe from the sleet.
Soon Slifers challenge Obelisks,
And Ras take Slifers, too,
This Christmas isn't white, we're glad,
But yellow, red, and blue.

And what about New Domino?
Does ice rime runners' tires
And freeze their fuel (if any, though)
And cool the meanest ires?
And in the frosty smoke smog,
Within the Satellite,
Do strangers band together
To last out the frost-bit night,
Swapping well-hid cards and tales
Across small, trash-fueled fires,
Keeping still a hopeful eye
On Domino's distant spires?

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Background:

One December night in 2008, I sat down and started rhyming words, trying to compose a gift for the group of people I'd been swapping Yu-Gi-Oh! poetry with on the 4Kids TV message boards. I finally came up with "Does it snow in Domino?" and it took off from there. I think that the first one is stronger and was indeed better received than the other two, because it talks more about the characters than the setting. It tells a story, rather than paints a picture. I like the pictures too, they're pretty, but the first one makes you smile just to read it. For those with a sharp eye, I also enjoyed making the joke about the ongoing debate about what runners run on and the nod and scowl at the White Dorm of Year 2. And for the record, for all my preoccupation with snow, I live on the balmy coast of California where it hardly ever snows.