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??

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.