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Outside the sun rises,
Within I browse threads of lain,
In both there is hope.

I do not like this,
Haikus are too limiting,
My own flaw not theirs.

What worth has silence,
Formless when so little's said,
No yin without yang.

A pretty cool OS,
With a very nice interface,
Methinks lain would approve

growing pains
humanity will thrive
solely as one

>>1294
>with|a|ver|y|nice|in|ter|face
>8 syllables

arent haikus supposed to be 5-7-5?
i didnt think they were one of those formats where you can fudge with vowel sounds like you can with sonnets...
i could be wrong :/



i dont like haikus
since im not contributing
ill include a book:

natural language
processing for the working
programmer (haskell)

>>1310
> i could be wrong :/

Traditional haiku is 17 "on". Translators generally suggest, that 17 on are more approximately 12 english syllables. Shorter haiku are both accepted and quite popular. There is even "free form haiku", where syllables don't matter that much anyway. The same holds true for the subjects and voice of haiku. Classical masters and haiku in their succession tend to be snapshots of subjective experiences, with reference to seasons. This doesn't apply to many 20th century japanese poets. A quote:
> One of Shiki's radical innovations was to abandon all the rules for writing haiku except for the 5-7-5 count of onji and the kigo, or season word. Hekigodo took the experiment one step further and abandoned the count of 17 onji in favor of "free verse" haiku.
> He retained the kigo because he felt it was an essential connection to the natural world.
Source: http://happyhaiku.blogspot.de/2004/08/kawahigashi-hekigoto.html
Shiki was the last of the four great masters. He laid the foundation for a more modern interpretation.

I could spend my time
doing something more useful
I know I won't though

>>1294
I remember the guy that started this he was stil visualising a "Virtual OS" where all your files lived together in a navigatable in a 3d environment that you interact with.