Haiku Hero Madness

[Aspergirl4hire]

If you like haiku and aren't sure if you can write it, tree posted a fabulous link. Haiku Hero has three levels, tracks your syllables automatically so you can fix a word in a hurry, and has the temerity to auto-judge work! It will even say it likes your haiku.

Sometimes.

It will also let you email that perfectly formed after you've written all the ones you could.

Which leads to potentially more haiku.

Often I even notice that there's a suggested word for the 17 syllables.

I sincerely hope this doesn't become my next mobile app, it's already a problem on the desktop...

So, write some haiku. Make it bad. Give yourself permission to exult in the total awfulness of squeezing something meaningful, to say nothing of "well-written," into a form borrowed from a language totally unlike English. Get silly!

 

[tree]

The 'game' aspect is that you must include the suggested word.
Timed or unlimited time.
Save your results if you register.
Pleasant looking game. Oriental background. Sometimes the game tells you
that you have used a word it didn't understand.

"Sucko," for instance....

These are 2 the game passed as 'good.'

china plates china
rose china tea and china
toes the little girl

how sweet the taste when
my lover brings me candy
on his lips candy

The game reports how long it took you, on average, to write a haiku.
Those above were 50 seconds.

The first time I used this game I supposed the phrase would jump right up into the display box.
It doesn't. You have to click it up there.
I got a few remarks from the game, mild but disappointed "That was not a very good haiku,"
for having the lines out of order. But....it is simple enough that (even) I could figure out
what to do.

Here's a 'not very good' one/ aka as pathetic, but the game is more polite than to say that:

float like a lima
sink like a turtle then you
can sting sting again mate

 

[tree]

This is a pretty good game.
I haven't played with it in months.

I got 7 'good' haiku out of 8 in the
five minute timed version, just now.

The game said this was my best one.
lol


peppermint patty
calls charlie brown chuck sometimes
he doesn't know why

The word to use was 'peppermint.'