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Hey everyone. Haiku day is coming up soon (on the 17th), and I figured you would rather have a poll about poetry rather than taxes, which was my other brilliant idea… so I asked Google’s Gemini to write us some haiku poetry about working in IT, then edited them slightly when it got the form wrong, popped in a couple of my own, and the result is presented below for your voting pleasure.

For those unfamiliar with Haiku poetry, the form is a three line poem, with 5 syllables for the first line, 7 for the second, and 5 again for the last. (For the poll, the lines are separated, but still on one line because of software limitations.)

What is your favorite IT Haiku?
  • Endless tickets flow. | Emails pile like mountains now. | Is this the new peak?
  • Firewall stands strong. | Digital threats are repelled. | Peace rules for today.
  • I have simple needs: | Multiple monitors and | Reliable speed.
  • Information flows, | River vast and unending, | Can you drink it all?
  • Printer jams the song. | Paper tears, frustration builds. | Another toner.
  • Remote screen glows bright. | Helping hands across the miles. | Unseen IT bond.
  • Server groans in pain. | Fans whirring, a frantic dance. | Will it last the night?
  • Spiceworks is the place | Where we come together as | A community
  • Wires snake through walls, | A silent hum, unseen force, | Connecting us all.
  • I wrote my own favorite (post it below)
  • Other (tell us below)
  • None. I don’t really like poetry.
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I also asked Gemini to write a couple of poems about itself:
Code whispers its tales, No hands on the keys,
I learn, translate, and connect. But vast knowledge at my core.
A bridge of information. Your digital muse.

Happy Poetry Month, and if you would like to submit your own IT Haikus, please do so in the comments. :slight_smile:

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haiku-its-not-dns-theres-no-way-its-dns-it-was-dns
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I forget exactly when, but I still had this in my download folder from last year or so (in the “long time ago” filter, hehe).

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This is my favorite and unfortunately it’s accurate.

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Confucius?

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  1. Calls echo in night,
    In code and cables entwined,
    Solutions take flight.

  2. Screens of blue and red,
    A calm voice guides through the storm,
    Panic now has fled.

  3. Keys clicking non-stop,
    Support standing ever firm,
    Making the chaos drop.

  4. In the maze of tech,
    They find the thread that leads out,
    No problem too complex.

  5. The system restored,
    A sigh of relief is heard,
    Harmony’s accord.

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it’s not dns
there’s no way it’s dns
it was dns.

Sean beat me to it.

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In lines of code dance,
Bytes whisper in the digital breeze,
Tech symphony plays.

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2 A.M. Asleep.
Alert! Alert! RAID has Failed.
Caffeine is my friend.

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An old, old one.

Chaos reigns within
Reflect, repent, and reboot
Order shall return

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This is the one.

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Not IT related, and not really a true haiku, but a classic:

All things are relative.
All my relatives are things.
My relatives took all my things.

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What is the problem?
I just typed this one thing in
Format C:

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Made a variation of one above

Firewall standing strong
Except for Bill in office
Welcome ransomware

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My Favorite is…

Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot
Order will return

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That’s the one I was checking for before I went to Google :slight_smile:

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Same song; different verse (picture)

DNS-Haiku
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They call the helpdesk

Seeking the unknowable

We are IT gods

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User claims “not my fault”!
I Swear I Swear not my fault!
It was too their fault!

I rebooted Yes!
I rebooted Yes! Twice!
They Lied! Yep! They Lied!

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Ugh…I never understood the attraction of Haiku.

But I like the DNS one…been there, said that.

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this is an quite old one, some of you might remember:
it is about the madness between the feeling of security and complete loss:

Abort
Retry
Ignore

and in favour of all poetry, I nicked it from here:
https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/midnight.dreary.html

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