Perl Haiku Poetry Contest

ActiveState writes "Tell us why you love Perl. ActiveState is pleased to announce the ActiveState Perl Haiku Poetry Contest. Do you love Perl as much as we do? Then prove it with your passion, creativity, and wit! Categories include Best Haiku Poem Written in Perl and Best Haiku Poem About Perl. All entries will be featured on our website. Winners will be selected by ActiveState's Perl development team. Prizes will be awarded for the top three entries in each category and include licenses for ASPN Perl featuring Komodo Professional Edition, and cool ActiveState gear. The deadline for entries is 12:00PM PST, February 8, 2004. Winners will be announced on February 10. Full contest rules are also online. Good luck!"

Comments

Hailku defined?

[OzPeter]

With all the Haiku posts, I decided to head off to google and see what actually makes Haiku. My feeling was the 5-7-5 plus indication of a season.

Seems that I am slightly wrong. The 5-7-5 syllabal grouping is accepted to be a Japanese convention where those breaks match the structure of that language. In other languages the the 5-7-5 doesn't fit as well, so you seem to be able to do what you want.

Also the Haiku is generally considered to be an expression of direct experience with out attached emotion. So similie, metaphor and anthropomorphism do not see, to be well regarded.

Two links that I just found and read are:
The definition of Haiku by Alexey Andreyev.
Another Attempt To Define Haiku by Jane Reichhold.

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Is there another word for synonym??

Re:Right, bring it on.

[Anonymous Coward]

Aside from inevitable aesthetic questions about what "proper" haiku is, there many linguistic reasons to abandon the requirement of 5-7-5 form.

Japanese is a different language than English, and a given metrical structure in one language does not translate well into the other. For this reason, it is often argued that English constructions should actually abandon the traditional Japanese form to maintain equivalence. For one thing, word structure is different in Japanese and English, and 17 syllables in one is not 17 syllables in the other, so to speak.

i love perl but ...

[lemody]

from the rules :

physically located in the United States or Canada (a "Qualified Individual")

eh.

self-listing haiku?

[capologist]

use strict; use warnings;
my $haiku_lists_itself; print
`cat $0`

Here's a real challenge:
Write a self-listing haiku
without such "cheating."

Is it possible?
I have no idea of how.
I would guess it's not.

Re:the real contest

[Danny Rathjens]

perl -MCoy -wle 'warn "Easier done than said."'

Coy module on CPAN

Re:the real contest

[Haeleth]

Forget ActivePerl
I want a proper Bash prompt
Cygwin is my friend

Proper Haiku should also have kigo

[know_op]

Haiku should also contain a "kigo", which is a reference to something in nature. Most traditional haiku have some sort of nod to trees or water or something like that.

If you have read Cryptonomicron by Neal Stephenson, you'll notice that all of the haiku included contain the kigo as well.

Timing

[kogs]

Is Perl syllable or stress timed?

Haikus only really work with syllable timed languages. Having said this, US Perl is probably less strongly stressed than other Perls. Perhaps, there could be a Perl limerick contest for those whose Perl is more strongly stressed?

Re:I hate Perl

[PhilRodgers]

Perl outshines .NET;
no obfuscator's needed
to protect the source

my attempt

[MagicM]

use 5; use strict 'subs';
study $ARG; for (;time = defined;) {}
do{ not (wait or sleep) };