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5-7-5-140

tepidmonkey — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:43:44 -0800

Twitterku features haiku made out of public updates on Twitter. Sometimes they're existential. Sometimes they're vaguely dirty. Actually they're mostly just existential and vaguely dirty.

By: cowbellemoo

cowbellemoo — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:59:04 -0800

ha! I used to spend my spare moments in calculus writing sexy haikus. So I would be sitting in the math lectures counting on my fingers all the time. I had 52 of them by the end of the semester.

By: katillathehun

katillathehun — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:00:43 -0800

House is now cleaner nothing else really matters Wow. Just fucking wow. I totally understand.

By: mullingitover

mullingitover — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:01:59 -0800

some haikus are good others don't make any sense refrigerator -seen on tshirt

By: cashman

cashman — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:02:57 -0800

So I would be sitting in the math lectures counting on my fingers all the time. I had 52 of them by the end of the semester. Fingers? I bet you can do a hell of a card trick.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:04:16 -0800

If I could hybridize twitter with something else, I would not choose haiku. I would choose a glue trap.

By: drezdn

drezdn — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:05:30 -0800

There's actually a mefite who has been posting poetic twitters lately.

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:08:23 -0800

Posting in a haiku form seems like it'd be a neat little creative challenge. I think I may give that a shot.

By: dersins

dersins — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:08:37 -0800

I used to spend my spare moments in calculus writing sexy haikus. So I would be sitting in the math lectures counting on my fingers all the time. I had 52 of them by the end of the semester. That's a fucking lot of fingers.

By: cowbellemoo

cowbellemoo — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:10:49 -0800

Fingers? I bet you can do a hell of a card trick. Quit staring at my dangling modifier! How embarrassing!

By: bondcliff

bondcliff — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:12:52 -0800

SLBOE GYOFBFW DTMFA

By: Sam.Burdick

Sam.Burdick — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:13:26 -0800

and cowbellemoo produces yet another haiku masterpiece

By: cashman

cashman — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:15:45 -0800

Cashman makes bad joke Dersins joins in on the fun Cowbellemoo is milked

By: tepidmonkey

tepidmonkey — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:17:12 -0800

Yeah, was that intentional, cowbellmoo? Quit staring at my Dangling modifier! How embarrassing! Because if not, wow.

By: cowbellemoo

cowbellemoo — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:18:36 -0800

Oh my gosh, quit it! If I could edit the post I would, but I can't.

By: Sam.Burdick

Sam.Burdick — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:28:57 -0800

nono... i'm sure we can't stop! Metafilter: Oh my gosh, quit it! If I could edit the post I would, but I can't. like silver dripping from the very heavens upon our dark and blighted land!

By: cowbellemoo

cowbellemoo — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:38:02 -0800

~~You guys are so mean! I get it! Stop repeating everything I say!~~ Well I suppose it's not even plausible now. So I'll quit trying.

By: dersins

dersins — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:38:32 -0800

I strongly suspect this thread's about to take a turn for the surreal.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:42:34 -0800

Well I suppose it's not even plausible now. So I'll quit trying. Are you doing this deliberately?

By: cowbellemoo

cowbellemoo — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:47:11 -0800

Statistically, it would be really improbable, don't you think?

By: misha

misha — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:48:41 -0800

cowbellemoo's counting on fingers (don't cows have hooves?) too late. can't edit.

By: cowbellemoo

cowbellemoo — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:51:28 -0800

I'm not being cute, just trying to stay on topic: found poetry!

By: mnsc

mnsc — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:57:42 -0800

haiku, haiku, hi haiku, haiku, haiku, hi! haiku, haiku, bye

By: localhuman

localhuman — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:17:59 -0800

I'm doing something, and its on the internet! (world becomes better)

By: goatdog

goatdog — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:20:37 -0800

The question is: how to write haiku without counting on my fingers?

By: dersins

dersins — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:49:16 -0800

Dude, you need to use your fingers in order to count to seventeen?

By: oneirodynia

oneirodynia — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:56:26 -0800

really, really done with the interweb haikus christ, what an asshole

By: goatdog

goatdog — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:08:37 -0800

No, dersins, that's too many syllables. Try counting on your fingers.

By: Vic Morrow's Personal Vietnam

Vic Morrow's Personal Vietnam — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:10:58 -0800

unchecked aggression camel-fucker in Iraq this is our concern

By: dersins

dersins — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:18:08 -0800

I don't think I need to, goatdog. Apparently, however, you do.

By: dersins

dersins — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:19:39 -0800

(In other words, next time count twice-- or even three times-- before you snark.)

By: oneirodynia

oneirodynia — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:29:13 -0800

So, is some human assembling these haikus from various users tweets (ugh!) and then posting them? I suppose that's really the only way it would work... I wish the user icons would show up next to their line. Somehow that seems like it would give strange context to everything.

By: oneirodynia

oneirodynia — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:30:50 -0800

(erm, I hope you don't think I was calling you an asshole, tepidmonkey. I was actually thinking of me being grouchy about haiku.)

By: Mr.Encyclopedia

Mr.Encyclopedia — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:58:45 -0800

Now I feel the need to count every word you post to find the haikus.

By: dersins

dersins — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:44:29 -0800

Count the syllables, not the words. But does "every" have two or three?

By: cowbellemoo

cowbellemoo — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:15:32 -0800

It's hard for me at least. Fingers bring me victory, not shame.

By: goatdog

goatdog — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:18:59 -0800

See, dersins, this is why I need all 52 fingers.

By: goatdog

goatdog — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:23:46 -0800

Sorry: See dersins, this is why I need all 52 fingers. Um. Yeah. Sigh.

By: cowbellemoo

cowbellemoo — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:28:19 -0800

He delighted in Her modesty but undressed Her rather quickly (One of my sexy haikus. Hawt.)

By: Sam.Burdick

Sam.Burdick — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:43:04 -0800

cowbellemoo, nice! it even scans as a good haiku. where you can read any two lines you like and get good imagery out of it.

By: nebulawindphone

nebulawindphone — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:24:51 -0800

where you can read any two lines you like and get good imagery out of it. Where'd you get the idea that that's required for a good haiku? (Err, that sounded like a challenge. I'm really just curious — it's an interesting idea but I've never heard it before, and I was Really Into haiku for a while.)

By: agent

agent — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:06:34 -0800

Oddly spaced linebreaks do not change a choppy phrase into a haiku.

By: Sam.Burdick

Sam.Burdick — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:49:44 -0800

nebulawindphone, I probably should have been more succinct in my post. It is actually something that I have thought on while reading Japanese history, poetry and zen philosophy. The idea briefly; haiku seems to me to be a way of capturing an experience in a few terse, yet powerful, lines. And that if you look at any piece of the haiku each piece could be its own experience. It is, admittedly, a reductive look at haiku. And there are haiku which do not work. But, I found that I enjoyed haiku more when I do that. A classic example of Haiku by Basho (1600s), translated of course The old pond: a frog jumps in,- the sound of water. This one works particularly well, calling up singally images of a pond, a frog and the sound of water. Placed together they call up a total image. But each line can be taken with one other line to encapsulate a different way of looking at the poem. eg. The old pond: the sound of water. gets you, if you've seen how good gardeners (and particularly good japanese gardeners) leave nothing to chance and don't just have an old pond there to look at. But, they also include some way of experiencing the sound of water. at least.... that's how I read it.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:47:12 -0800

The idea briefly; haiku seems to me to be a way of capturing an experience in a few terse, yet powerful, lines. Ideally. But in practice, as seen in the English-speaking world, it's most typically a joke of an exercise primarily carried out by those whose poetic scope is limited to syllable-accountancy.

By: dersins

dersins — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:12:08 -0800

Wolfdog, you say that as though there's no poetry in accountancy.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:38:39 -0800

There is poetry to be found nearly everywhere, but most so-called haiku are an outright failure at reveal any. Is there, then, you might ask, any poetry to be found in these nonpoetic haiku? Good question.

By: dersins

dersins — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:00:01 -0800

The poetry of the nonpoetic is the poetry of Now.