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. >______________________________ > >To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: > http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html >and select "Join or leave the list" > >Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ > To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/