Can you keep it going asking ONLY QUESTIONS?

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  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,461 Member
    You are so clever
    Writing such beautiful prose
    Can I join up too?
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 3,210 Member
    Aren't haiku poems supposed to include rhyming/ describing nature?
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 14,076 Member
    Are you not aware haiku strictly speaks about the number of syllables per line of the poem, without restricting/recommending the content of the poem?
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 14,052 Member
    edited July 2024
    AdahPotatah2024 wrote: »
    Aren't haiku poems supposed to include rhyming/ describing nature?

    While they are often about nature, can't they be about anything?
    And isn't the requirement not that they rhyme, but that traditionally they be three lines consisting of 5 syllables, 7 syllables and 5 syllables?
    Don't contemporary haiku often enough break even this rule regarding syllables?
    Can you imagine the fun I had in my first programming class, being given an assignment to write a program that generated haiku from several lists of words? 😂
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,461 Member
    Write about nature
    If you wish.Poets do. But
    Isn't that boring?
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 3,210 Member
    Why,why haiku poets
    Do you not include rhyming?
    Frightened you'll go nuts? 🤪
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 14,052 Member
    Would thinking of rhymes
    with syllables on my mind
    put me in a bind? 🤪
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 14,076 Member
    edited July 2024
    AdahPotatah,
    Why do you require rhyming?
    Why not let it go?
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 3,210 Member
    edited July 2024
    Mr. Nossmf,
    Is not this a rebellion
    Against poetry?

    Do these poetries
    Written in English sound worse
    Than in Japanese???
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 14,076 Member
    You know what sounds worse
    than a haiku in English?
    Why not binary?

    1 0 1 1
    0 0 0 1
    1 0 0?
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 3,210 Member
    Would you mind translating that for us!?:)
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 14,076 Member
    Is it even possible to put into words the sheer emotions evoked by such numerically perfect prose?
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 14,052 Member
    nossmf wrote: »
    You know what sounds worse
    than a haiku in English?
    Why not binary?

    1 0 1 1
    0 0 0 1
    1 0 0?

    Binary haiku
    confounding the poet's muse
    why would you do that?

    Hexadecimal -
    comprehensible, maybe
    to a computer?
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 14,076 Member
    Base 2, 10, 16
    Math: nature's preferred language
    Can humans translate?
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 14,052 Member
    Oh Fibonacci,
    how did you stumble upon
    nature's innate math?
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 3,210 Member
    Complexity whirls
    Is it that for hard questions
    answers are simpler?
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,461 Member
    After all these poetic posts, do I dare post some thing basic like How is everyone today?
  • srazamora
    srazamora Posts: 4,645 Member
    Isn’t that kind of like bringing up the topic of the weather to intellectuals deep in profound thought?
  • Thoin
    Thoin Posts: 961 Member
    What?
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 14,052 Member
    Wait, what was that again? Profound what? 🤔🤪
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 3,210 Member
    Did anyone else count the syllables in those last posts?!:
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 14,052 Member
    edited July 2024
    Did you think we might purposefully utter seventeen syllables?
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,461 Member
    Would any of us really laboriously count out that many on purpose?

  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,461 Member
    Did anyone count my last post to check? 🤣😎😛
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 3,210 Member
    Is that what you'd call abstract poetry?
  • srazamora
    srazamora Posts: 4,645 Member
    Is there anything we can’t do here?
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 14,076 Member
    What about answering a question with an actual answer instead of another question?
  • cmsienk
    cmsienk Posts: 20,114 Member
    Wouldn't that be against the rule(s)?
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 14,052 Member
    edited July 2024
    Meaning isn't that something we can't do?
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 3,210 Member
    Can't or won't?

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