shadowninja
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Mountains of crisp green cash flowing in cool cascades trickling down, right? Sure.
What is the sound of one hundred billion dollars gurgling down the tubes ?
Warren is smarter. Warren knows the score, even when there is no score.
Perfect bund. Perfect yam. Perfect inside-trading scam. And down goes Sam.
Not mine, tho.
What is the sound of one hundred billion dollars gurgling down the tubes ?
Warren is smarter. Warren knows the score, even when there is no score.
Perfect bund. Perfect yam. Perfect inside-trading scam. And down goes Sam.
Not mine, tho.
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Neither trading, nor original. But haiku and quite funny if you've not seen before:
IT Haiku
Serious Error.
All Shortcuts disappear.
Mind. Screen. Both are blank.
Out of memory.
We wish to hold everything!
But still we cannot.
Rather than beep
Or a rude error message:
These words: "File Not Found".
Errors have occurred.
We won't tell you where or why -
Lazy programmers!
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot
Order will return.
For a new PC,
Center of my universe,
I abandon all.
The code was willing!
It considered your request,
But the chips were weak.
Everything is gone.
Your life's work has been destroyed.
Squeeze trigger? (yes/no)
A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
No keyboard present
Hit F1 to continue
Zen engineering?
Website has been moved
We'd tell you where, but then we'd
Have to delete you.
The web site you seek
Cannot be located but
Countless more exist.
Aborted effort:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask way too much.
Windows XP 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.
Printer not ready.
Could be a fatal error.
Have a pen handy?
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.
Logon incorrect!
Only perfect spellers may
Enter this system!
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.
Seeing my great fault
Through darkening blue windows
I begin again.
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.
10,000 Things
How long do any persist?
Explorer is gone.
Server: poor response
Not quick enough for browser
Time out, plum blossom.
This site uses frames
And yet your browser does not.
One of these will change.
Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.
IT Haiku
Serious Error.
All Shortcuts disappear.
Mind. Screen. Both are blank.
Out of memory.
We wish to hold everything!
But still we cannot.
Rather than beep
Or a rude error message:
These words: "File Not Found".
Errors have occurred.
We won't tell you where or why -
Lazy programmers!
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot
Order will return.
For a new PC,
Center of my universe,
I abandon all.
The code was willing!
It considered your request,
But the chips were weak.
Everything is gone.
Your life's work has been destroyed.
Squeeze trigger? (yes/no)
A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
No keyboard present
Hit F1 to continue
Zen engineering?
Website has been moved
We'd tell you where, but then we'd
Have to delete you.
The web site you seek
Cannot be located but
Countless more exist.
Aborted effort:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask way too much.
Windows XP 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.
Printer not ready.
Could be a fatal error.
Have a pen handy?
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.
Logon incorrect!
Only perfect spellers may
Enter this system!
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.
Seeing my great fault
Through darkening blue windows
I begin again.
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.
10,000 Things
How long do any persist?
Explorer is gone.
Server: poor response
Not quick enough for browser
Time out, plum blossom.
This site uses frames
And yet your browser does not.
One of these will change.
Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.
shadowninja
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:cheesy: to all.
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great posts above......Why is it that if you aked anyone randomly to put on a trade 100 times in a row, probability suggests that they'll be right about 50% of the time, ie up or down, buy or sell, long or short...and they know nothing. The more we learn we seem to get worse, lol....until those candles really do light the way.....(price, it's all in the price and it's action.) lol.
(sorry to thread starter if i've gone off subject here)
(sorry to thread starter if i've gone off subject here)
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It was fine. :cheesy:
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Exit on the Left, Enter on the Right
Wily fox shatters Mirror
I'm going to get killed for that...
Wily fox shatters Mirror
I'm going to get killed for that...
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You want to be a trader.
Many have tried and failed.
You are the same.
The price is moving higher.
Large profit you imagined.
Has now become a loss.
Many have tried and failed.
You are the same.
The price is moving higher.
Large profit you imagined.
Has now become a loss.
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I see arguments
From other T2W threads
Appearing here now.
If this continues
I am worried that this thread
Will be closed as well.
From other T2W threads
Appearing here now.
If this continues
I am worried that this thread
Will be closed as well.
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I've tried but can't pin the fragile tension required of this form. Haiku suggests to me that famous Hokusai wave print: the parts are emphatically in motion yet the whole is somehow tranquil. An elusive, surprising balance between phrases is all. What a pretentious cop out.
Weak hands rush in where
Patience treads with utmost care,
Masking her intent.
In the quiet moments
Her campaign develops while
Nobody looks on.
Her trick: to provide
An imaginary table,
Then remove the food.
Hail liquidity!
Discombobulated they
Gorge on poor value.
The invitation
So cordial, the result so
Assured. Illusion!
If only they knew
Their responses help conclude
The business of size.
Ticks from the apex,
The very last straggler in...
For a nasty shock.
In the final lull
Demand is cheaply tested.
Found lacking, stops melt.
But the odd crumb is
Discarded; thus is the game
Perpetuated.
Lame-o; the content dubious too.
Weak hands rush in where
Patience treads with utmost care,
Masking her intent.
In the quiet moments
Her campaign develops while
Nobody looks on.
Her trick: to provide
An imaginary table,
Then remove the food.
Hail liquidity!
Discombobulated they
Gorge on poor value.
The invitation
So cordial, the result so
Assured. Illusion!
If only they knew
Their responses help conclude
The business of size.
Ticks from the apex,
The very last straggler in...
For a nasty shock.
In the final lull
Demand is cheaply tested.
Found lacking, stops melt.
But the odd crumb is
Discarded; thus is the game
Perpetuated.
Lame-o; the content dubious too.
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shadowninja
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On a serious note, the markets can be like an evil temptress, making it difficult for someone to hold back for the right setups. (And in fairness, my ex-wife was a nice person, but it's traditional to take the micky out of one's ex-wife.)
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What's missing in all of the previous examples, (except mine of course :cheesy: ), is the vital and abrupt change of perspective between the first 10 and the final 7 syllables. It should metaphorically and most specifically intellectually, slap the reader in the face.
The trick is to have no logical and especially no discernable connection between the two parts. It is within the conscious, but only apparent, dissonance of those parts, the composer of the Haiku enables the potential for realisation of the ultimate lack of necessity for connectedness, and from that platform, therefore, awareness of the underlying which does provide ultimately the hidden connection which was not being sought and cannot be sought on a conscious level, to come to fruition outside of conscious awareness, until there is an ineffable comprehension quite outside the original context and indeed, well after any memory of the existence of the Haiku, or the event of its reading the Haiku itself has long since disappeared.
The trick is to have no logical and especially no discernable connection between the two parts. It is within the conscious, but only apparent, dissonance of those parts, the composer of the Haiku enables the potential for realisation of the ultimate lack of necessity for connectedness, and from that platform, therefore, awareness of the underlying which does provide ultimately the hidden connection which was not being sought and cannot be sought on a conscious level, to come to fruition outside of conscious awareness, until there is an ineffable comprehension quite outside the original context and indeed, well after any memory of the existence of the Haiku, or the event of its reading the Haiku itself has long since disappeared.
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Haiku Rules That Have Come and Gone -- Jane Reichhold
As soon as you get proficient (you will notice your haiku all sound alike) it's time to raise the tennis net by picking a new rule or so, either from this list or one you've made up from reading and admiring other haiku, or, and this is possible and not treason, from other poetry genre.
Here we go:
1. Seventeen syllables in one line.
2. Seventeen syllables written in three lines.
3. Seventeen syllables written in three lines divided into 5-7-5.
4. Seventeen syllables written in a vertical (flush left or centered) line.
5. Less than 17 syllables written in three lines as short-long-short.
6. Less than 17 syllables written in three vertical lines as short-long-short. (Ala Barry Semegran)
7. Write what can be said in one breath.
8. Use a season word (kigo) or seasonal reference.
9. Use a caesura at the end of either the first or second line, but not at both.
10. Never have all three lines make a complete or run-on sentence.
11. Have two images that are only comparative when illuminated by the third image. Example: spirit in retreat / cleaning first the black stove / and washing my hands
12. Have two images that are only associative when illuminated by the third image. Example: fire-white halo / at the moment of eclipse / I notice your face
13. Have two images that are only in contrast when illuminated by the third image. Example: two things ready / but not touching the space between / fire
14. Always written in the present tense of here and now.
15. Limited use (or non-use) of personal pronouns.
16. Use of personal pronouns written in the lower case. Example: i am a ...
17. Eliminating all the possible uses of gerunds (ing endings on wording).
18. Study and check on articles. Do you use too many the's? too little? all the same in one poem or varied?
19. Use of common sentence syntax in both phrases.
20. Use of sentence fragments.
21. Study the order in which the images are presented. First the wide-angle view, medium range and zoomed in close-up. (Thanks to George Price for this clarification!)
22. Save the "punch line" for the end line.
23. Work to find the most fascinating and eye-catching first lines.
24. Just write about ordinary things in an ordinary way using ordinary language.
25. Study Zen and let your haiku express the wordless way of making images.
26. Study any religion or philosophy and let this echo in the background of your haiku.
27. Use only concrete images.
28. Invent lyrical expressions for the image.
29. Attempt to have levels of meaning in the haiku. On the surface it is a set of simple images; underneath a philosophy or lesson of life.
30. Use images that evoke simple rustic seclusion or accepted poverty. (sabi)
31. Use images that evoke classical elegant separateness. (shubumi)
32. Use images that evoke nostalgic romantic images. Austere beauty. (wabi)
33. Use images that evoke a mysterious aloneness. (Yugen)
34. Use of paradox.
35. Use of puns and word plays.
36. Write of the impossible in an ordinary way.
37. Use of lofty or uplifting images. (No war, blatant sex, or crime)
38. Telling it as it is in the real world around us.
39. Use only images from nature. (No mention of humanity.)
40. Mixing humans and nature in a haiku by relating a human feeling to an aspect of nature.
41. Designation of humans a non-nature and giving all these non-nature haiku another name.
42. Avoid all reference to yourself in the haiku.
43. Refer to yourself obliquely as the poet, this old man, or with a personal pronoun.
44. Use no punctuation for ambiguity.
45. Use all normal sentence punctuation
: = a full stop
; = a half stop or pause
... = something left unsaid
, = a slight pause
-- = saying the same thing in other words
. = full stop
46. Capitalize the first word of every line.
47. Capitalize the first word only.
48. Capitalize proper names according to English rules.
49. All words in lower case.
50. All words in upper case.
51. Avoid rhymes.
52. Rhyme last words in the first and third lines.
53. Use rhymes in other places within the haiku.
54. Use alliteration. Example by Calvin of Calvin & Hobbes: twitching tufted tail / a toasty, tawny tummy: / a tired tiger
55. Use of words' sounds to echo feeling.
56. Always end the haiku with a noun.
57. Write haiku only from an "ah-ha" moment.
58. Use any inspiration as starting point to develop and write haiku. (These are known as desk haiku.)
59. Avoid too many (or all) verbs.
60. Cut out prepositions (in - on - at - among - between) whenever possible; especially in the short 1/3 phrase.
61. Eliminate adverbs.
62. Don't use more than one modifier per noun. This use should be limited to the absolute sense of the haiku.
63. Share your haiku by adding one at the close of your letters.
64. Treat your haiku like poetry; it's not a greeting card verse.
65. Write down every haiku that comes to you. Even the bad ones. It may inspire the next one which will surely be better.
