Notes From The Tiger’s Cave

Warrior Forum “Plug-In Profit Site” Haiku Class!

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Participating in an Internet marketing forum such as Warriorforum.com can be a lot of fun as well as educational!

Pat Brucoli, Support Director of the Plug-In Profit Site (PIPS), and the PIPS Warrior Forum Moderator, started a light-hearted old English-language Haiku thread the other day.The Haiku were error messages said to have been used in Japan to replace “unhelpful Microsoft error messages”. Here’s a sample:

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

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

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

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

Serious error.
All short-cuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

The question is, though, are they really haiku? I raised an objection!

I’m gonna get tough.
Haiku  needs a season ref.,
like early summer.

and…

What you wrote are Senryu:
You can say what you like
and drop the season. 

Did you notice that the first line of the last “Haiku” (really a Senryu) had an extra syllable? Japanese poets sometimes do it too! There is even a term for it:  jiamari. There are some examples of Japanese Haiku with jiamari here.