h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

yay! and on with the Olympic poetry Games!!! splendid!! and Rod's one with the smileys! amaaazing.

Thanks cactuscafe but only one prob there - I came to a sudden stop... Can't remember a thing about it!
Really!

I wrote a haiku?
A pseudo haiku even!
Never happen, eh?

Hey Rod!

Love it .....

If I was really clever, I would now write a haiku about ....

Rod wrote a haiku about forgetting he wrote a haiku (or two)

heheh... see? clever that, it is 17 syllables ....

cc

Ahah!

Rod wrote a haiku
about forgetting he wrote
a haiku (or two)

That, I think, makes it about two and a quarter

Cactuscafe wrote
A haiku on just one line
Fixed with two keystrokes




Perhaps not. Think I'll give it up...

Summer on HooToo,
Researchers with crossed wiring.
Result: strange haikus.

Summer or winter
Editor with crossed wiring
Result: tongue-in-cheek

You guys .....

And, just like that, these magicians produce amazing haiku, like pulling a bunch of white roses from out of a tophat. I was going to say white rabbit, or white dove, but I don't think it's very PC these days. Where do magicians keep the rabbit, or the dove, or the white roses, before they appear out of the hat?

I think I will have to go and live in a cave, and exist on nothing but grapes, hallucinations and mineral water for twenty five years before I can master haiku. . The haiku spirits will appear before my rolling eyes, whispering cryptic messages to me in 17 syllable formations, and I will understand them not. Then suddenly, one day, after 24 yrs and 11 months I will get it, and write a perfect haiku, except I will be so old by then I will drop dead the next day. .

So I will abandon the plan, and, in my imagination, I will adopt a pug and name it Basho. . . I always wanted a pug named Basho.

There ends the tale. Or the tail. . .