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Haikus, a Japanese form of poetry, on a site about software testing ? After I read the Computer Error and Meeting Haikus on Ward Cunningham’s huge Wiki site, I decided to write some Haikus, too. While writing good Haiku poetry, which may give some insight in the essence of live, the universe and everything, is difficult and requires some level of enlightment, writing bad one is easy: each poem has only three lines and 17 syllables, five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, five in the third. That’s all.
Here are some Haikus from Ward Cunningham’s Wiki and some Haikus I wrote. Perhaps those Haikus will be the only thing that will remain, after all our code and projects will have fallen into oblivion!

Feel free to add your own Haiku to this site - here and now !

Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
-- David J. Liszewski

Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
-- Peter Rothman

Spreadsheet on my Screen.
Maze of rows and columns,
my mind fades away.
-- Georg Sehl

Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occured.
-- David Dixon

Stay the patient course
of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.
-- David Ansel

Ambitious project,
the deadline before kickoff
at the dawn of doom.
-- Georg Sehl

Some bugs have names.
Others inscrutable numbers.
Yours has not even that.
-- Ken Carpenter

A hideous bug
typed into bug database,
sent to nirvana.
-- Georg Sehl

A conference call:
squeaky voices from the phone,
an endless babble.
-- Georg Sehl

Gant-, Pert- and Pie-Charts,
a maze without an exit,
called a project plan.
-- Georg Sehl

Go the road to doom:
if something is not working,
just do more of it.
-- Georg Sehl (inspired by Tom DeMarco's "Slack")

Amazing talent
wasted in this conference room
on status updates
-- Bill Barnett

Opportunities
I am looking for because
the ship is sinking
-- Georg Sehl (Februar 2006)

Opportunities
right before my feet,
leaving past behind.
-- Georg Sehl (April 2006)

There is not enough
memory available 
to display this err.
-- BrianG

Out of memory
We wish to hold the whole sky
but we never will.
-- Frank Heaney