The Haiku Archive (2)

After the 8th,  the haikus adhere more closely to the traditional Japanese 5-7-5 form. In theory a haiku should also refer to a specific season, but that rule gets ignored here:

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#6 Channeling Second Life and its many enthusiasts.

What an avatar,
I saw her in Second Life,
and wanted to touch her.

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#7 Trying to make a deal with an IT vendor, and getting frustrated

Hour upon hour of briefings,
days of negotiation,
it’s only a webinar for chrissake.

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#8 A reprint of John Cooper Clarke’s famous haiku.

TO-CON-VEY ONE’S MOOD
IN SEV-EN-TEEN SYLL-ABLES
IS VE-RY DIF-FIC

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#9 The idea of ITIL standard Haikus. Some people believe that Haikus in English should resemble Japanese Haikus consisting of 17 syllables in 5/7/5 form. The poetic form is truly lost in translation. But from #10 on, the Twitter Haikus adopt this form (or deliberately exercise poetic license.)

ITIL embraces Twitter thus;
tweet not about politics
tweet not about religion

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#10 Qrystal is one of the few other tweeters out there who posts Haikus. Qrystal is quite extreme about this. She always tweets in Haikus. She puts slashes between lines. I salute her.

Inspired by Qrystal/
I now tweet all my haikus/
with slashes between lines.

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