Neil Ward Dutton of WMD made the excellent suggestion that Twitter could be used to post Haikus. Being suggestible, I immediately started posting Haikus; the first of which was purloined from the web. Here are the first five. The form adopted for these is reminiscent of haiku translations rather than true to the official  Japanese form of 5-7-5 syllables:

#1 Purloined from a series of IT haikus

First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen
dies so beautifully.

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#2 Written in the wake of a lightning strike…

Thunderstorms.
The power fails.
No Internet, no Google, no Twitter.

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#3 Written on hearing that Yahoo! executives had rejected Microsoft’s over-generous bid to acquire it .

Even the voice of the walrus,
cannot capture the deep groan
of the Yahoo shareholder.

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#4 Contemplating the news that a politician lost a laptop and was roundly criticized .

My laptop missing,
so very transient;
lost, stolen or merely virtualized.

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#5 Annoyed at the lack of wireless services in some areas of Austin. Maitreya is (in the Buddhist tradition) the coming Buddha who has yet to appear.

Like Maitreya,
the wireless Internet,
will one day be born.

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More Haikus >>

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