This was forwarded by a friend. I don't know the original author. Thank you, whoever you are, for these brilliant haikus.

I know no-one who has not been touched by computer mishap. Thought you would appreciate this.

In Japan , they have replaced the impersonal Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages.

Haiku Poetry has strict construction rules: Each poem has only 17 Syllables - 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, 5 in the third.

They often achieve a wistful, yearning, and powerful insight through extreme brevity.

Here are some actual error messages from Japan . Aren't these better than "your computer has performed an illegal operation?"

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

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

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

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

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

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Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.

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Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.

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A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.

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

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

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Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.

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

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Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

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I ate your Web page.
Forgive me; it was tasty
And tart on my tongue.

hilarious, thanks for that!

love it!

Regarding Haiku #6:

Is the word file one or two syllables? I always considered it to be two.

Reminds me of sitting at a bar conversing for hours only using haiku with my friend John. Another friend Jeff could not contribute and became annoyed. I suspect those around us were probably annoyed too, but we had fun.

Fond recollections
of an evening poetic.
The beer flowed freely.

According to dictionary.com it is one syllable, but it may be pronounced as 2 syllables in some areas

Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.




How true that is.

Indeed

Some things live forever via FWD's, like the hoax "news" that the (US) government is about to start charging a nickel tax on e-mails. It must be 5 years since I've last seen this list of haiku, and it's a lot more amusing!

-- Brian

I agree; as hoax emails go, this is one of the best

That's my favorite one of the bunch...

- R