> In Japan, they have replaced the
> impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error
> messages with haiku poetry messages.  Haiku
> poetry has strict construction and
> inscrutable rules.
> Each poem has only three lines, 17 syllables:
> five syllables in the first line, seven in
> the second, five in the third.
> Haiku are used to communicate timeless
> messages, often evoking powerful insight
> through extreme brevity - the essence of Zen.
> Your file was so big.
> It might be very useful.
> But now it is gone.
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Nice collection! 

Evokes some not so nice memories of Windoze past & present. . .

Haiku is such a fun little format. . .

I need a tune to sing them to, so I can write some death defing Grammy-winning  lyrics! Then I'll need someone who can sing!

I mostly stick with parodies, like this one with hats off & apologies to Earth, Wind, & Fire:

Do you rememnber
The thirty-first day of November
Your sergeant we both did dismember And buried the pieces so deep
and far. . .

More to go; I might just submit it to the Horror Zine once done.

Haiku. . .

I wrote a haiku...
Well, really, more like a pun, 
Leaving. A ôbye-kuö

Most Haikus make sense, 
This haiku probably won't, 
Refrigerator.

Japan's emporer.
Deposed atop mount fuji.
That was a high coup.

When baby delights, 
and pitch of voice increases
We call this high coo.

Q: What's a Japanese-American poet's favourite pickuyp line? A: Haiku-ti

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