Today’s prompt is simple, or is it?. Write a haiku. Rules of Haiku writing are simple. Not so with creating the deep meaning in a stunning manner.
Here is the definition from the Academy of American Poets.
A traditional Japanese haiku is a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Often focusing on images from nature, haiku emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression.
Here is one great example from the famous haiku master, Matsuo Basho.
A field of cotton—
as if the moon
had flowered.
– Matsuo Basho
Translated by Robert Hass
Here are two “computer error message” haiku. I am not sure of the source of these.
First snow, then silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies
So beautifully.
Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.
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