Haiku in and on Second Life
January 29, 2008 8:14 pmHaiku is a strange thing, if the term is not used to refer to an obscure open source operating system, an English Haiku is a poem that consists of three lines, where the first and last have 5 syllables and the middle one has 7. They should be calming, thoughtful, errr… whatever. I prefer the ones that are funny, though.
Examples given:
Haiku 404
The Web site you seek
cannot be located, but
countless more exist.
Blue Screen Haiku
Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
Certainty Haiku
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
Of course, sooner or later, somebody had to write some Haiku on Second Life too. Or even establish a Haiku Club within our virtual world: the Shin Tao Haiku. Needless to say, I still like the ones that make me laugh the most?
In another world
I am prettier, skinny,
naturally blonde.
(a haiku a day)
Of course, I needed to give the whole Second Life Haiku stuff a try myself. As I know I’m not that a great poet - calling being a non-native-English-speaker to my defence - I wonder, who can do better than this?
A Second Life
Who thought it possible
Guess I need a Third
(Vint Falken)
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13 Responses to “Haiku in and on Second Life”
Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don’t make sense
Grid stability
(first two lines aren’t mine :))
Haha, nice Haikus! I guess there wasn’t much to blog about and you rolled a dice to decide which of a few? ;-) Nah, just kidding, great subject, though due to my “American” English accent being fake (though many testimonies from my trip to New York and Orlando two years ago prove otherwise) I say Haiku’s so bad I need my fingers to count syllables ‘^_^.
P.S.: I think using this link (from Wiktionary) would explain it better to people.
TP me Jesus!
Into the afterlife, but
Please IM me first.
Smiley, I don’t want people to understand, I want them to come up with Haiku on Second Life! :D
Rejeanne, not contemplating virtual suicide, are you?!
I was invited
into Heaven but alas!
the sim was still full.
I yearn for your heart!
My love is unspoken, yet
typed painstakingly.
My avatar stands
unable to dress herself.
Asset Server woes.
Curse you Vint Falken!
I’d kicked the haiku habit
now I’m hooked again!
You will not see me
with a collar or a whip
I’ve an alt for that.
Ruth! Avatar Eve!
Predecessor of us all!
Why do you taunt us?
My name is Rejeanne.
Is there a twelve-step program
for haiku addicts?
Yeah. Sure! Dial SOS-575! ;)
(Although you have some really nice - and funny! love funny! ;) - ones.)
Read your Haiku article with amusement — laughed out loud when I came to the “Certainty Haiku.” No problem guessing which occurred. :-)
I think for now ‘naturally blond’ and the ones from Rejeanne concerning ‘full heaven sim’ and ‘asset server woes’ are my fav’s. =))
Rezzing, all is grey
features starting to emerge
why am I still Ruthed?
“Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don’t make sense
Grid stability
(first two lines aren’t mine :))”
The original of this is on a teeshirt from Threadless.com and can also be found in my profile:
Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don’t make sense
Refridgerator
:D
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