Traditional Japanese Haiku follows a pattern of 5-7-5 syllables for a total of 17 syllables. However, the English language differs from Japanese significantly, bilingual scholars have suggest that 11 syllables in English would approximate the "density of meaning" in a 17 syllable Japanese Haiku, thus the pattern of 3-5-3 syllables is suggested for English language Haiku.

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Windows Haiku


The Web site you seek

Cannot be located, but

Countless more exist.


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Chaos reigns within.

Reflect, repent, and reboot.

Order shall return.


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Program aborting:

Close all that you have worked on.

You ask far too much.


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Windows NT crashed.

I am the Blue Screen of Death.

No one hears your screams.


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Yesterday it worked.

Today it is not working.

Windows is like that.


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Your file was so big.

It might be very useful.

But now it is gone.


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Stay the patient course.

Of little worth is your ire.

The network is down.


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A crash reduces

Your expensive computer

To a simple stone.


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Three things are certain:

Death, taxes and lost data.

Guess which has occurred.


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You step in the stream,

But the water has moved on.

This page is not here.


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Out of memory.

We wish to hold the whole sky,

But we never will.


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Having been erased,

The document you're seeking

Must now be retyped.


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Serious error.

All shortcuts have disappeared.

Screen. Mind. Both are blank.