Brainy Haikus for brain training

Thank you to every­one who has writ­ten so many fun haikus over the sum­mer (fol­low­ing the post Top 25 Brain and Mind Haikus. Yours?). These are the 10 I have enjoyed the most:

(Also, Can you write a haiku describ­ing any­thing cross­ing your mind now? 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 below for extra points…)

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Top 10 Brainy Haikus — enjoy!

- Amit:

Love, col­lege, career.
A new world of transitions.
Will I sur­vive? Yes.

- Kathy:

My release technique,
For­give, for­get, love all,
Med­i­tate on that!

- Alan:

Through the microscope,
slice of brain stains pink and blue,
the won­der of thought.

- Justin:

Justin the genieus
Must spell check the word genius
to post this Haiku

- Tim:

writ­ing quick haiku
seems so very difficult
can i pull it off

- Mer­cury:

Seek­ing brain fitness.
Am I haiku-focusing,
or just distracted?

- Kalsang:

My fin­gers tapping,
I chant out five, sev­en, five.
Is this new music?

- LW:

body aching now,
yoga isn’t so easy,
good for you they say?

- Emma:

You think yoga’s bad?
Try Aiki­do my good friend.
Knack­ers your shoulders.

- CJ:

Rain Stormy Boomer
Sew­er Back­ing To My Door
Is Insur­ance Paid?

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In case you want to read more, below you have many more haikus con­tributed dur­ing the year:

- Techne, the philoso­pher, wonders:

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

 

- Steve, the envi­ron­men­tal­ist, requests:

 

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

 

- GTB, the skep­tic, says

 

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

- Mil­lie, spir­i­tu­al, suggests:

 

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

- Mark, the opti­mist, reflects:

 

I thought I did well
Then I reviewed my answers
I am retard

 

- jolovli, the boomer, tries again:

 

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

 

- Lloyd, the stressed-out, volunteers:

 

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

 

- 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!!

 

- 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

 

- Karen

 

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

 

- Bruce

 

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

 

- Alvaro

 

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

 

- ter­ri

 

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

 

- qt

 

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

 

- Sta­cy

 

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

 

- camper­court

 

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

 

- kestrel

 

first white is purple

or it was red I think

now haiku, what next?

 

- Stacey

 

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

 

- anon

 

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

 

- Steve:

 

Accoun­tan­t’s cull.
Farewell to long-time work-mates.
Too real for haiku!

 

- Gail:

 

Old women gather
Seek­ing change is the power/
Thanks to grandmothers

 

- Robert:

 

My brain is just fried.
I used it too much this week.
I need some Spongebob.

 

- Shel­ley:

 

An infi­nite mind
Expan­sive, con­scious, knowing
Alert and aware

 

- Jet:

 

Haiku to you too
Now is for­ev­er, now is
Now is now to you

 

- Jack:

 

Cool death match: face off
Wer­nick­e’s area and
Bro­ca’s Region.

 

Yours, please?

(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 below for extra points…)

 

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