Note: What is Haiku?
Haiku is a very short poetic form, consisting of three lines of
5, 7, and 5 syllables each, and must have a special word which
evokes the season. It is probably the shortest poetic form
in
the world, and its development is native to Japan, with no
influence from either the West or China. The poet must
be
concise because of the brevity, while concentrating deep
spiritual understanding into the poem. The haiku poet usually
takes up the changes of nature which have impressed him in
order to express the intangible world of the spirit.
Although it is difficult, haiku is not written only by
professionals. Anyone can easily learn to use the form.
In Japan, Sony Vaio machines have replaced the impersonal and
unhelpful Microsoft error messages with their own Japanese
haiku poetry:
Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
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A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
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The Web site you seek
Can not be located but
Countless more exist
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Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
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ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask way too much.
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Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Windows is like that.
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First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
so beautifully.
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With searching comes loss
and the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.
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The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao, until
You bring fresh toner.
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Stay the patient course
Of little worth is your ire
The network is down
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A crash reduces
your expensive computer
to a simple stone.
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Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
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You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
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Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
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Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.
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Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
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