If you like writing poetry, or even if you don’t, this is a fun website that takes some of the work out of finding the perfect word to complete a rhyme: Write rhymes. Just start writing, and any time you need a word, option-click on the word you want to rhyme with, and you’ll get a list of suggestions.
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Wow, I can’t believe it’s been a month since I wrote anything here. I recently posted a poem on my Xanga blog, “From His Presence.” Click here to read it.
I suppose it takes a certain mind to appreciate Haiku Error Messages. First, a little explanation for the uninitiated of what haiku is: Haiku is a Japanese method of writing poetry. In its modern English form, it usually consists of three lines: the first 5 syllabels in length, the second 7 syllabels, and the final 5 again. It is nearly always free verse, which is to say it does not rhyme. These three lines form the complete poem. (This is a very important point, because if you go to the Haiku Error Messages page linked above, and read it as one long poem, it will make absolutely no sense. Each three lines is a complete, independent poem in itself.)
I learned haiku in elementary school, where it is often introduced as a way for children to get their feet wet in poetry. I may have enountered it later in high school as well. I find haiku fascinating, in part because of the discipline required to create a beautiful (or, in this case, witty) poem within such tight constraints.
Even if you have no interest in haiku or poetry per se, you might enjoy the clever wit expressed in these short verses. For example, perhaps you can identify with the writer of this haiku:
A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
In place of the plain old “This page cannot be found” website errors often seen, what if you were greeted with this?
The website you seek
cannot be located but
endless others exist
Some of the poems require a little inside knowledge, and may not make a lot of sense to everyone. But they’re all very clever.
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