Haiku

[Scotty Sinclair]

A Haiku for you all!
A break from work
Put on my well worn cowboy boots
Off to the ranch.

[HS Thomas]

Some more from the web.
Lily:
.out of the water...
...out of itself.
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James W. Hackett won the inaugural Japan Airlines (JAL) haiku contest (1964) by setting his poem in a 5-7-5 syllable form and also using a colon on the first line for punctuation.
A bitter morning:
sparrows sitting together
without any necks.
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Y2K
Jupiter rises
discreetly

[Michael Ernest]

Helicopter beats:
Sweet forfeiture forfeiture forfeiture
Lighting, what now runs.

[Richard Hawkes]

Are you bored right now?
Try a haiku for fun ... err,
what season is it?
Quickly rushing out,
excited by the new snow.
Your arse, bruised and wet!
[ January 15, 2004: Message edited by: Richard Hawkes ]

[HS Thomas]

Pair of shoes:
Side by side
in step 'til dying shoe
parts the pair
I think this is 3-5-3 haiku.
[ January 16, 2004: Message edited by: HS Thomas ]

[John Dunn]

Mapraputa Is:
A Site Map/Sheriff here on
the javaranch forums

[John Dunn]

John Dunn and his wife,
will have a sibling in June
for their lil' Angel.

[John Dunn]

What's a haiku?: A
five - seven - five syllable
format, three-line poem

[John Dunn]

Got insomnia?
For no apparent reason?
Write stupid haikus...

[HS Thomas]

No light so perfect
that shines from
an open fridge door
at two ah em
[ January 18, 2004: Message edited by: HS Thomas ]

[HS Thomas]

The point of
a no scoring game
I hear you say
Kylies Kylies
If entertainment is
what you want
go to a circus
[ January 18, 2004: Message edited by: HS Thomas ]

[Davy Kelly]

I thought people only haikus when they sneeze???
Davy

[Frank Carver]

It seems that an implicit Haiku rule is that you don't pronounce punctuation. I though I'd exploit that

public class Poem {
public String toString() { return
"A Java Haiku" ; } } 

And before you ask. yes, I have compiled it
:roll:

[Frank Carver]

What am I thinking? I forgot the unit tests

void test() { assertTrue(
"A Java Haiku".equals(
new Poem().toString() ) ; }

[ January 18, 2004: Message edited by: Frank Carver ]

[HS Thomas]

Oops
Back stabbing key
corrects past misdeeds
Thanks