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Your Haiku, Please?

April 24, 2008 by Alvaro Fernandez

We con­clud­ed our Top 50 Brain Teasers post with the challenge: Haiku brain exercise

#50. Can you write a haiku describ­ing your expe­ri­ence doing some of the pre­vi­ous teasers? The sim­ple rules: write 3 lines, which don’t need to rhyme, con­tain­ing 5,7, and 5 syl­la­bles. There were a num­ber of great and fun takers…you can enjoy their haikus below.

Let’s now change the theme: Can you write a haiku describ­ing what prob­lem you would like to see brain research solve? Remem­ber the sim­ple rules: write 3 lines, which don’t need to rhyme, con­tain­ing 5,7, and 5 syl­la­bles. You can leave your haiku as a com­ment for extra points…

Pre­vi­ous haikus on brain exercise:

- My favorite, by GTB:

Haiku’s are easy
But some­times they don’t make sense
Refrigerator

- Ter­ry says:

New infor­ma­tion
Syn­the­siz­ing my knowledge
A for­ward movement

- Frank says:

Painful­ly easy
Sig­nif­i­cant­ly harder
Men­tal stimulus

- Chuck says:

This was fun, and no,
I don’t intend to haiku.
Thanks for post­ing it

- Sarah says:

find­ing your teasers
added fun to my morning,
helped wake my brain up

- Lor­raine says:

teach­ing math is fun
when you find great resources
sharp brains is the place

- Psalm says

As my mind expands,
it grasps new ideas…oh look
there’s some­thing shiny!!

- Hizam says

Haikus
now i know 2
oh i for­got the oth­er one

- anon writes

the noon hour portends
a bur­ri­to with salsa
bright­en­ing my tongue

- Mike says

See I think I see
Here now, not so — real­ly real?
Wound­ed, mind leaves me

- Lisa

new thoughts activate
frontal lobe work hard, harder
no senility

Yours , please?

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers Tagged With: brain-exercise, brain-research, brain-teaser, haiku, mental-exercise, rhyme, write-haiku

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Comments

  1. Fred says

    April 25, 2008 at 6:38

    let me see…

  2. Karen says

    April 30, 2008 at 7:35

    Brain train­ing others
    Like watch­ing the Earth open
    One thought at a time

  3. Bruce Hamilton says

    May 1, 2008 at 5:35

    My brain stem works hard,
    But the tests are much harder,
    Need more grey matter

  4. Alvaro says

    May 2, 2008 at 8:37

    Can per­form better,
    Learn­ing, train­ing, and practice
    Body, brain and mind

  5. Techne says

    May 3, 2008 at 11:13

    Solve the big questions:
    How do I know when I know?
    Who knows the knower?

  6. Alvaro says

    May 26, 2008 at 1:53

    Who knows the knower
    who deeply knows the knower?
    Techne, this is hard!

  7. terri says

    May 26, 2008 at 7:24

    strokes take speech away
    some­one should find a quick fix
    every­one needs to speak

  8. qt says

    May 31, 2008 at 12:01

    Aha, a challenge
    for the brain to endeavour
    soon­er than later

  9. Millie says

    May 31, 2008 at 8:30

    Play­ing music feeds
    my soul while read­ing music
    nur­tures my old brain.

  10. jolovli says

    June 3, 2008 at 11:41

    improv­ing function
    smoked too much weed in college
    it’s nev­er too late

  11. campercourt says

    June 4, 2008 at 6:31

    It is morn­ing now
    The sun rose very early
    Good­morn­ing to you

  12. kestrel says

    June 5, 2008 at 7:57

    first white is purple

    or it was red I think

    now haiku, what next?

  13. Lloyd says

    June 23, 2008 at 11:32

    I thought so damn Hard.
    My brain built lots of pressure.
    I fart­ed out loud.

  14. Moose Wilson says

    June 26, 2008 at 1:11

    very aes­thet­ic contemporaries.….

  15. Shardith says

    July 2, 2008 at 12:59

    Answers are easy
    After you click on the link
    To look them all up

  16. stacey says

    July 3, 2008 at 8:28

    I thought is was fun.
    Then it got a lot harder.
    Wow i suck at this.

  17. triple rhyming haiku says

    July 12, 2008 at 10:03

    oh boy I wonder
    will my tee­ny lit­tle ears
    still hear loud thunder

    of course it is true
    the afore­men­tioned thunder
    came out of the blue

    from the blue you say
    I think per­haps you are wrong
    but it’s still okay

  18. Stacy says

    July 18, 2008 at 2:54

    Brain hurts so badly
    Work­ing night shift: not so fun
    Need to get some sleep

  19. Steve says

    July 23, 2008 at 8:30

    Neu­ro­plas­tic good.
    Plas­tic, though lasts forever.
    Always recycle!

  20. Valerie says

    August 5, 2008 at 8:16

    My haiku:

    Can brain research prove
    that the place­bo effect
    is bet­ter than drugs?

  21. tina says

    September 2, 2008 at 10:34

    Don’t you dare to say

    Only 3 per­cent I’ve used

    After all these brain tease?!

  22. Behrooz says

    September 14, 2008 at 11:14

    So hard yet so fun
    And a haiku in the end
    Who are you people!?

  23. Alvaro Fernandez says

    September 15, 2008 at 11:03

    Thank you for all the beau­ti­ful haikus!

    Behrooz, good question,
    the source of hard fun we are,
    for your brain power!

  24. Kjo says

    October 4, 2008 at 11:35

    haikus are not hard
    but they stim­u­late the brain
    too much for today

  25. Sarah says

    October 4, 2008 at 2:21

    (I guar­an­tee that this one does hide a ques­tion regard­ing brain research that I am inter­est­ed in…if you still need a hint, think caps)

    Wil­low Hides Yes­ter­day’s Dreams Of 

    Whis­pered Excla­ma­tions And Lev­i­tat­ing Leaves Drooping

    Red Embers And My
    Question

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