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user-inactivated · 3416 days ago · link · · parent · post: You can go back in time 5 years to say one thing to your past self. It has to be in a single Haiku, what do you say?
I know you. You're me. Enough messing yourself up. You can do better. * * * I never liked poetry, but haiku is a beautiful format. Thanks for the prompt: I wouldn't get myself up for it otherwise.
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user-inactivated · 3416 days ago · link ·
Precisely. Ludology - the study of games and playing - tells us that we have most fun from games that have strict and well-defined rules, even if there aren't many of them. This way, we can both have fun working under and around them. While you can't bend the rules of haiku (unless you want to put more words in, and then you do what I did - insert shortened auxillary verbs what'd otherwise take a whole syllable), it could be a fun challenge to make up precisely the structure it requires.I find haiku is a lot of fun in the severe limitations it imposes.