Poetry

Roxy & her umbrella. A haiku for her. Roxy was my cat. She lived for 23 long years and she always loved to lie under umbrellas. She was special. She was happy and she was loved.Contributor: Bridgitte WilliamsPublished: Dec 22, 2009  

Haiku: The daylight grows short Blogging time is scarce for now Repost is now here I am ready. Bring on the comments about the proper way to write a haiku. Of course, I should warn you that I am technically a professional Haikuer - here is my winning entry to ThinkGeek's haiku contest Here is the deal. I am going to pick 12 posts from my old stuff and post 1 a day for 12 days (hopefully). Yes, technically, this is not the 12 days of...  

Today there are many operating systems available. Every vendor or community round it tries to make it as good as possible. Having different goals, different legacy and different cultures, they succeed in it more or less. We (end users) end up with big selection of operating systems, but for us the operating systems are usually compromise of the features that we would like to have. So is there an operating system that would fit all the needs of...  

EDITOR'S NOTE: A few weeks ago we asked readers to send us their best haiku -- a Japanese poetry form consisting of three lines of five, seven and five syllables in that order. But we weren't interested in just any poetry; we wanted haiku themed on the economy and recession. Readers responded overwhelmingly. Here's the latest batch of their contributions:  

Stories In Flight | FlickrPoet is part of Stories In Flight, an ongoing exploration of storytelling in the age of the Internet. To make it work, copy-paste e.g. song lyrics into the form. For the lazy ones, there's also an automatic version that feeds on haikus published on Twitter: #haiku. The haiku tweets will be displayed in a loop, with regular updates from Twitter when new haiku tweets are available. See also my Twitter Quilt - I love...  

Christmas memories are not ipods, blackberries or laptops. The face of a child on Christmas morning; sitting with that special someone in the glow of the Christmas tree lights; the true Christmas spirit touching all of mankind.Contributor: Melody JaskePublished: Dec 18, 2009  

Personal delightchocolate chip cookie doughnow unsafe to eatIt's snowing cookiesas my waistline enlargesbig , round, fat snowmanCrisp cookies crumblingbetween my wrinkled fingersmy life and my dreamsMolding cookie doughwith my fingers and my heartmuch like a child's lifeLinda V.Aurora  

My own ball and chainI locked it, misplaced the key G-d please release me Life from your own loins I wonder what that feels like A human you made I wonder how to face the voice that tells me that I am a child If my bar mitzvah was yesterday, tomorrow I'll be eighty-one  

Here's an old sage's Holiday Haiku for 2009. No, am not one of those against calling it Christmas Haiku. It's just that Holiday Haiku is alliterative. .... Hey, but wait, so is Hanukkah Haiku. And Kwanzaa Haiku, almost. Whatever! "Holiday" it is.Contributor: Michael ThompsonPublished: Dec 16, 2009  

This Haiku relates to not being able to be home for Christmas, but in this day and age, we can actually reach out and make contact with more of our friends and family than ever before!Contributor: trick-r-treatPublished: Dec 18, 2009  

lights are very brightshining all around the house much enlightening Jack SchwadererLakewood---------------------------------The flip of a switchShattering darkness-Let there be Light!Rita Hart, Englewood--------------------------------------Darkness defeatedBrave little Chanukah lightsDance into our hearts.Felice SageLittleton --------------------------------------If you are aloneJust reach for a connectionTurn all the lights onJulie ReesFt...  

International House Culturescapes SONIC HAIKU: Kinds of Silence (Sound Installation) Wednesday, December 9 Rutherford South Library, Room 1-21 Come experience the voice of Japanese Haiku layered over soundscapes from all over the world. Neglected sounds that ordinarily would be defined as “silence” become hearable in this audio-exhibit about wandering and the solitude required for aesthetic attention. Hybrid work, “Kinds [...]  

How much can you do with a single line of musical code? Scoring music using archaic-looking (but relatively fundamental) audio techniques, a group of composers has produced a free album. Each track, produced in the open source, multi-platform audio tool SuperCollider, is produced via only 140 characters of code. The work ranges from electronic grooves [...]  

Hi all. pls, I'm building a report which holds data from a dataset in tabular form in the details and in the footer section, the details section returns all rows but the footer does not, it returns only the last row of the table though the dataset were set & attached the same way. how can I solve...  

Many years ago, we would gather around my grandparents table and enjoy a Thanksgiving feast. All that's left of those Thanksgiving Days are memories. This Haiku records on of my favorite childhood Thanksgiving memories.Contributor: Susan ElliottPublished: Nov 19, 2009