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  There was an old man
  From Peru, whose lim'ricks all
  Look'd like haiku. He
  
  Said with a laugh, "I
  Cut them in half, the pay is
  Much better for two."

Found on the net. No idea who's it is!

limerickdb - http://www.limerickdb.com/?top150

not the original source

but "oh well", i say

I thought this was a

post for the Haiku OS

but am now saddened.

  Oh Haiku OS!
  Thou art minimal and grand!
  Unlike this poem.

  In Haiku OS,
  Do the docs look like these posts?
  Or are they normal?

  They are like normal,
  but with a slight twist: they have
  more metadata!

  Thanks for the info.
  More metadata sounds nice.
  I'll go check it out.

  A confusing thing:
  
  Many seem to say "Oh Ess"
  
  Whereas I say "Oss"

    Those that say "Oh Ess"
    are using something I call
    correct English (hah)

  BeOS was an
  Operating System, 'twas
  never meant to Be.

This is Hacker News.

Not a place for your haikus.

GTFO NAO.

  This is Hacker News.
  A place for haikus, but not
  lame internet memes.

     Haikus need _kigo_ -
     OP is not a haiku.
     But neither is this.

Director's special edition alternate ending:

     This is; summer rain!

Australians, Google kigo,

Never mind the Ashes,

A season

  This is bullshit man.
  I refuse to write haikus.
  And you can't make me.

One of my favourites:

    "Cherry blossoms fall"
    Is a sneaky haiku trick
    Cherry blossoms fall.

from jwz: http://bethesignal.org/misc/jwz-haiku.html

Do they make sound

if no-one hears the

cherry blossoms fall.

  Four then Five then Five
  A proper haiku makes not
  Try Five Seven Five

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_in_English

   Hacker News geyser:
   Insight and inspiration
   Bubble from the depths.

  nascent RSI
  100 emacs buffers
  yet love at first hack

  Dr. John Sarno says
  it's a tension-induced ill
  must say: true for me

Emacs not the cause

Twenty-five years I've used it

Fingers good as new

Eh, I'm going to break with the theme here and just respond, because the last thing I want to do is give the wrong impression about emacs:

I'm not getting RSI. My fingers feel great. It just sort of fit in the haiku. Swap caps and ctl. Use emacs. M-x can-i-get-a-hell-yeah

What has this

got to do with hacking?

I can't see any point in it.

  Hackers push boundaries.
  Haikus limit sentances,
  so you have to cram!

    Arbitrarily
    Pushing boundaries is not what
    Hackers do, at all.

    Random mutation
    Is not usually an
    Improvement. It fails.

  The point can't be taught.
  QWAN will always elude you.
  You code but don't hack.

  Twice five syllables
  plus seven can't say much but
  that's haiku for you

  (-Hofstadter)

    A new tradition
    To replace "Erlang day", we
    could do this instead

Haikus are easy

but sometimes they don’t make sense

Refrigerator

  I am reluctant
  to upvote any haikus that
  employ plagiarism.

  I am reluctant
  to upvote any haikus that
  employ plagiarism.

  Before my mouseclick,
  This post had forty-two comments.
  ...I'm sorry.

I 'm flabbergasted!

I come here for Hacker News,

and find poetry.

---

these are however

very amusing to read.

Gentlemen, proceed.

  Haiku in Java:
  System.out.println(
  "My little pony...");

  10 PRINT "Hello World!"
  20 PRINT "Its a Haiku!"
  30 GOTO 10

  come be a poet
  with people around the world
  one line at a time

http://haikoo.org

In the trees

Sour grapes glow —

fireflies

    That's not a haiku
    But I still rather like it
    Are others checking?

  It is still haiku
  5, 7, 5: Maximums
  Shorter is okay

    Tick tock tick tock hands,
    you behave like molasses,
    be more like Usain

    Hacker finds success,
    contentment not guaranteed.
    Feature, not a bug.

Wikipedia!

Just to find what it takes

writing a haiku

I am not quite sure

How to write proper haikus.

Is this one valid?

I have understood

A use case of hacker news:

Learning poetry.

Sunday afternoon; often more interesting, if less rigorous

For ramen profit You don't need VC funding Unless it's YC

A thousand words dully glow

in unsmiling cages ---

the summer still yearns

for haiku's pale fire

Haikus on HN?

What has the world come to now?

Still, I can't resist.

the sun of dawn shows

orange in the eastern sky

like news dot yc

Code is poetry

UI a story

Hack... a haiku

Hacker News haiku:

Should one write about nature

or technology?

Son-of-a-gun the

haiku returned to my life

I despise it still

I refuse to post

more haikus to this here thread

I feel so dirty.

Pointless post What's my response Flag it!

[I think I got it right, never done Haiku before]

  What you have written
  is not Haiku, but rather
  is inane drivel.

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