Poetry Warm Up Contest

[theFrey]

As a writing warm up exercise, write a Haiku following the normal forms for your favorite show. Or, perhaps from your favorite Sci-Fi character…. The contest will run a week and the winner will be crowned Writing Master of the Board for a week.

Japanese haiku have been traditionally composed in 5-7-5 syllables. When poets started writing English haiku in the 1950’s, they adopted this 5-7-5 form, thinking it created a similar condition for English-language haiku. This style is what is generally considered “traditional” English haiku.

Below are some examples of Windows error messages. There is actually a grass-roots movement over there to replace the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages like these bellow.

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

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

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

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

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

First snow, then silence.
This 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.

Well hopfully not too blank. See what you can come up with Sci-fi wise. 😀

[theFrey]

790 poetry anyone? 😉

Cold lips taunting me
Beauty that torments my soul
Perfection wears black

[theFrey]

Hummm, no other muses have visited yet? Okay, well here is something else in the Lexxian vein.

Breathe not the same air
as my beloved blonde goddess
you cowardly dolt.

I shall have to think up something for Red Dwarf, since I like that show too. 😀

[nursewhen]

Here’s an old one of mine

Xev’s first love is dead
The robot has no body
Stan’s all alone too

[bambooshoot]

Homage to B5:

The Shadows are gone,
Marcus might not be that dead.
B5 WILL return.

Pretty crap but my first attempt!

Bambooshoot 😳

[Anonymous]

six of none
with fancy flee
resign to failure

a kingdom for fool
with masking ape
mimics charade

white translucent roar
crimson rushes
the ball drops

[theFrey]

shallow space traveler
feline movements, mirrored grace
of course he looks good

[theFrey]

Cat has always been a favorite of mine. Both the Sadgeezer one and the Red Dwarf one. 😀 Ah well, More 790?

Red hair inflames me
pale white flesh untouchable
my love loves me not.

[Author]

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