November 03, 2009

A First Attempt at Haiku

Normally I'm shy about my poetry but I think I can be brave enough to share 3 lines and 17 syllables.

Talking to my Project Manager last night, I said that a particularly gnarly problem would probably be solved by about 3 lines of code, but which 3 lines of code? He laughed and said that was going to be a piece of software haiku. He went to a neighbouring desk tossing out a line that he would like to see some haiku from me and this is what I produced in the 3 minutes he was away.

Code glows on white screen;
Incandescent thought laid bare,
Human to Machine.

I hope that you like it.