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puca bearsThese deserve to be shared - such sublime elegance! ENJOY
In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft Error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strict construction rules. Each poem has only three lines, 17 syllables: five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, five in the third. Haikus are used to communicate a timeless message often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity - the essence of Zen:
Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
The Web site you seek
Cannot be located,
but Countless more exist.
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
Program aborting:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.
Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.
First snow, then silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies
So beautifully.
With searching comes loss
And the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.
The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao - until
You bring fresh toner.
Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.
A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.
Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen.
Mind. Both are blank.
huggies
Maria
Hi Maria, 
Oh, thank you for those!! They are wonderful and would probably make you stop in your tracks before throwing your computer out of the window!!
I particularly loved :
Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen.
Mind. Both are blank.
Happens to me every day!
and
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
Love the sense of humour!! Made me chuckle anyway!!
Hugs
Marilyn
What a great idea!! I used to enter the Haiku contest every day on poetry.com It's pretty fun though I didn't win, I became quite good...I thought!!! 
Hugs,
Sylvia
Angela's Bear Garden
These are great
Past Time BearsMy hubs is a published poet and excels in Haiku . . . he will love these. Thanks a bunch, Maria!
puca bearsGlad you enjoyed the poems, ladies! They are so gentle and delicate.............and BRILLIANT!
And how lovely for you, Sue Ann to have a poet husband
huggies
Maria
