Martha - I read someplace that there would be no literature if it weren't
for critics.  I took this little aphorism to mean that people who are
sensitive, inquisitive, and insightful are required to separate the
literary wheat from the chaffe.  The clear inference to me was that the
sensitive critic should receive credit for literature, just like the
author.  And that is what I was thanking you for.  So by "your poems" I
meant the poems that you had found and shared with us.  Keep up the good work.

Geoff

PS:  Actually, I didn't credit you as the author when I passed them on.
Maybe somebody will think I wrote them!


At 08:54 AM 7/27/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Geoff:  They're not MY poems.  They were sent to me, and I just sent them
>on to my poetry-loving ATEGers.  Don't give me the credit.
>
>Martha
>
>
>
>
>>Martha - Wonderful!  Your poems have been e-mailed, printed, copied, and
>>otherwise duplicated for the widest possible distribution.  They will
>>certainly show up in my World Lit class where we study and write Haiku.
>>
>>Thanks, Geoff Layton
>>
>>At 06:41 PM 7/26/01 -0500, you wrote:
>>>Those of you who use technology in your classes--and, perhaps, teach poetry
>>>as well--might enjoy these examples of Haiku!
>>>
>>>Martha
>>>
>>>
>>>In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error
>>>messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strict construction
>>>rules. Each poem has only three lines, 17 syllables: five syllables in the
>>>first line, seven in the second, five in the third. Haiku is used to
>>>communicate a timeless message often achieving a wistful, yearning and
>>>powerful insight through extreme brevity -- the essence of Zen
>>>
>>>--------------------------------------
>>>Your file was so big.
>>>It might be very useful.
>>>But now it is gone.
>>>--------------------------------------
>>>The Website 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.
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