Haiku

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Good ones kiwimac!
 
I, Bigmacscanlan
Guardian of the Triforce
Am really impressed

I like those Haikus,
Cynical, yet quite astute,
Your good Kiwimac
 
And here are the rest of the Windows Haikus :) :

In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful computer error
messages with Haiku poetry messages. They're used to communicate a
timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through
extreme brevity. Here are 13 actual error messages from Japan:

1. The web site you seek cannot be located, but countless more exist.

2. Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent and reboot. Order shall return.

3. Program aborting: Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too
much.

4. Windows crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your
screams.

5. Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that.

6. Your file was so big. It might be very useful, but now it is gone.

7. Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is
down.

8. A crash reduces your expensive computer to a simple stone.

9. Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has
occurred.

10. You step in the stream, but the water has moved on. This page is not
here.

11. Out of memory. We wish to hold the whole sky, but we never will.

12. Having been erased, the document you're seeking must now be retyped.

13. Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen ... mind - both are blank.
 
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- And I thought you wrote those yourself Kiwimac?!?
 
Bigmacscanlan said:
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- And I thought you wrote those yourself Kiwimac?!?
Oh, Gosh! I wish I had, nope they are not mine, guess I didn't make that clear, eh?
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Now, Brian, if you are going to post 'em at least post em in Haiku format
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Your file was so big.
It might be very useful
But now it is gone.


The web site you seek
Cannot be located but
Countless more exist.

Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent and reboot.
Order shall return.

Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.

Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.

Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.

First snow, then silence.
The thousand-dollar screen dies
So beautifully.

With searching comes loss
And the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.

The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao until
You bring fresh toner.

Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.

A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.

Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.

You step in the stream
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.

Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky
But we never will.

Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.

Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

Kiwimac
 
That was a favourite as well. :)

Btw - apologies - I presumed it would be assumed that they were from elsewhere.

Though if anyone wants to compose original ones that could be quite superb. :)

A grey box on screen
I must click on yes or no
No response - it crashed
 
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
This one is definitely my favourite. I just wish I could install all these messages into my PC. It would make crashing a pleasure.
 
Some more of my poetry -- Remember you asked for it!

Dark night
enfolds, entraps
Tears for all the bright, beautiful things
that die!

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Moon's rising
greets me
forgetting all else
I lose myself in
Bright, shining glory!

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Early summer
reluctant night ends
your hand
clasped in mine!

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Cry out! Wail & Howl!
Your grief, like mine, echoes back
from empty heaven's mocking

God has moved
& left no forwarding address
All our prayers come back
marked
'Return to sender'

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

All mine

Kiwimac (who has more, if you want 'em)
 
Don't Basho my brains out fer this...

These are the first six haiku I ever wrote... I hope ya don't git too sick...

(If ya do, try rhyme juice... oh, wait, that's fer another kinda poetry...)
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He tumbles and falls...
skateboard and head on concrete...
too funny for words...

Hospital people...
loud sirens and flashing lights...
the young lad is saved...
A cop now assists...
Tickets for all ambulances...
parking in... red... zones...

Briefcase clutched firmly,
a lawyer shouting "Justice!!!"
He offers his hand...

"Better yet, money!"
Legal rights explained, and now...
The lad signs papers...

Later... victory!!!
And a lawyer's parting words...
"Well, then... 'Til next... fall??? "



---Said to have been written either by Basho in the seventeenth century, or by In_Odder_Words justafew days ago... (Smart money's on ME, though...)
 
If this is TOO bad, just tell me ta take a... haiku...

Foxbat said:
Anybody tried it?
I love reading it but I just don't have a poet's heart. :(
I gave out on loan my one and only book on the subject and never got it back. Must make an effort to get some more.
Sometimes I think about my poor abducted paperback...

For books also,
the night must be cold
so very very lonely
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Title: "Onaka ga sukimasu ka?"

Odd Americans!!!
Chocolate-covered sushi...
I am not hungry...
 

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