Qrystal.name » Poetry http://qrystal.name Quiddities and quandries from my quintessential quest Sat, 14 Jan 2023 19:26:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Winter Tanka http://qrystal.name/winter-tanka/ http://qrystal.name/winter-tanka/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:02:00 +0000 Qrystal http://qrystal.tumblr.com/post/318371074 | Ambient white light
| reflects from snow-crusted ground;
| such brightness, outdoors,
| contrasts the darkness indoors,
| requires drawn shades to see.

- by Qrystal

]]> http://qrystal.name/winter-tanka/feed/ 0 A Limerick Haiku http://qrystal.name/a-limerick-haiku/ http://qrystal.name/a-limerick-haiku/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:42:00 +0000 Qrystal http://qrystal.tumblr.com/post/185448471 Oh wow, a limerick haiku!
I thought ‘twas too tricky to do!
But then I found this,
and I’d be remiss,
if I didn’t share it with you!

–a limerick by Qrystal, to introduce the following clever way of meshing limerick and haiku styles:

…

There was an old man
From Peru, whose lim’ricks all
Look’d like haiku. He

Said with a laugh “I
Cut them in half, the pay is
Much better for two.”

…

Alas, there is no signature, so I don’t know who to congratulate for this masterpiece.  Very funny though! :)

]]> http://qrystal.name/a-limerick-haiku/feed/ 1 Morse Code Haiku http://qrystal.name/morse-code-haiku/ http://qrystal.name/morse-code-haiku/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:24:00 +0000 Qrystal http://qrystal.tumblr.com/post/100621581

/ -.-. …… .-. … / … .- — ..- . .-.. / — —- .-. … . -.-.— /

/ -.— —- ..- .-. / -.-. —- -.. . / —- ..-. / -.. —- – … / .- -. -.. / -.. .- … …. . … /

/ .. — — —- .-. – .- .-.. .. —.. . -.. / -.— —- ..- /

In honour of Samuel Morse’s birthday today, Google made a nice logo graphic and I wanted to honour him too, in my own way: with haiku.

My usual outlet for haiku, however, is limited to 140 characters, and that gets difficult when each letter is represented by 1-4 characters in Morse Code. If I could write a haiku using mostly E’s, I’s, T’s, M’s, N’s, and A’s, it might fit… but instead, I decided to just go all out and post as a blog post instead of a twitter tweet.

I had the Morse Code translation done automagically, and the same site has a Morse Code DeTranslator as well.

Happy birthday, Samuel Morse!

]]> http://qrystal.name/morse-code-haiku/feed/ 0 Sometimes haikus don’t make sense http://qrystal.name/sometimes-haikus-dont-make-sense/ http://qrystal.name/sometimes-haikus-dont-make-sense/#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:50:00 +0000 Qrystal http://qrystal.tumblr.com/post/47613437

“Haikus are easy but…” Threadless T-Shirt – by Rolf Nelson

I wants it! My birthday’s only three months away… hmmmm… time to get a-hintin’! :D (If any generous strangers out there would like to send me a Girly Medium-size shirt, I can pick up packages at the Physics department office in University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Yup!)

The shirt says this:

Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don’t make sense
Refrigerator

What fun~!

]]> http://qrystal.name/sometimes-haikus-dont-make-sense/feed/ 0 Northern Ontario haiku http://qrystal.name/northern-ontario-haiku/ http://qrystal.name/northern-ontario-haiku/#comments Wed, 21 May 2008 13:20:14 +0000 Qrystal http://qrystal.tumblr.com/post/35553517 Daydreaming about
Northern Ontario camping.
So close, yet so far…

— It’s haiku, if you smear the “io” into “yo” :P


]]> http://qrystal.name/northern-ontario-haiku/feed/ 0 Ode to the Great Masterpiece http://qrystal.name/ode-to-the-great-masterpiece/ http://qrystal.name/ode-to-the-great-masterpiece/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 20:39:00 +0000 Qrystal http://qrystal.tumblr.com/post/34942276 Link: Ode to the Great Masterpiece

Remember how good it felt
to finally be feeling good about
the progress in creating
the Great Masterpiece of Thesis?

Remember how great it felt
to really USE that analytic mind
melding ideas and knowledge
for the Great Masterpiece of Thesis?

Remember how guilty you felt
realizing the hours frittered away
added to days and weeks
instead of a Great Masterpiece of Thesis?

You know how awesome you’ll feel
when checkmarks outnumber the spaces
on the very thorough outline
for the
…Great…
……Masterpiece…
………of………
…………Thesis.

Originally posted by ~Qrystal at deviantART.com. http://qrystal.deviantart.com/art/Ode-to-the-Great-Masterpiece-85756186

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