Dreams 07 Apr 2006 04:55 pm

my subconscious sings in haiku

Maybe something in me knows that it’s Poetry Month again. I took a nap this afternoon and dreamed a complicated dream about impossible computer problems, and somehow getting a prompt for a machine I didn’t know existed, and then accidentally posting a very long, dull session transcript to somebody’s livejournal… etc. One of the readers of that livejournal chided me in a set of three haiku, which I thought was so charming that I in turn apologized in haiku.

What gets me is that the only one I remember is actually in 5-7-5 form:

In this floating world
Nothing is ever certain
Save computer bugs.

Thank you, subconscious mind!

2 Responses to “my subconscious sings in haiku”

  1. on 07 Apr 2006 at 5:54 pm 1.Rechercher said …

    LOL. It’s even good haiku! :) I wish I had the ability to dream in haiku. :D

  2. on 08 Apr 2006 at 1:46 pm 2.Wim L said …

    Hee hee.

    For a while at Omni (in the good ole days) we all had to give our status reports in arbitrarily-assigned restricted form (specific poetic forms, fixed number of words, imitating Yoda, etc.). I had a lot of fun with the haiku reports.

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