For the Haiku lovers among you

[sheila]

http://www.targeting.com/404.html

[Rich]

...that was a really cool page,
short...sweet...really witty, too!

:)
Rich

[sheila]

Yeah, last night I found it by mistake. I was reading a "spam saga" that is somewhere on that site. Was referred to the saga directly from some article in a spamcop newsgroup.

Anyhow, the saga was quite funny. And then I thought I'd look at the home page for that site.

Guess how I found their 404 page? (Naw, there couldn't be someone who's link to their home page gives a 404, could there?)

[added]
Oh, yeah, so I read the 404 page aloud to my husband. He recognized it immediately as Haiku, and started busting up. (That had slipped past me.) Man, that kept him going for a while. Just the idea of Haiku on a 404 page.


[This message has been edited by sheila (edited 04-18-01@2:09 pm)]

[Armand]

Technically that would be a senryu and not a haiku no?[nbsp][nbsp]Actually sort of in between I guess.[nbsp][nbsp]But cool nonetheless.

[sheila]

Armand, you got me.

What's a senryu? (I never heard of that one before.)

[Mandi]

:)

[Armand]

Haiku and senryu both use the Japanese derived 5-7-5 syllable pattern.[nbsp][nbsp]Haiku tend to be nature oriented, while senryu "has a much more flexible content, in particular discussing human emotion and relationships as opposed to nature themes."

Quote taken from article at my site..lol. http://www.arcanumcafe.com/articles/ths991.shtml

Sorry years of getting daily beat upon with such topics (run poetry/literary site)... lmao

[Dunx]

I recognise that haiku/senryu - it was one of the haiku error messages in a Salon competition a few years ago -

http://www.salon.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal2.html

(on the second page; Cass Whittington was the author)

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Dunx