Keyword Haiku
Anyone for a word game (or a nerd game really)?
I was just looking at the stats for this blog. I usually only read the top 10 search phrases, but glanced at the top 25 keywords, and noticed they almost make sense if read in order, perhaps the opening credits and scene setting of a very strange play? (Caps and punctuation added):
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THE LUCKY THINGS
OF SUMANGALI MILTON
a John Peach Story
[SPACE]
Ramayana words in poem (Chinese)
Shou home (origin: container)
By Lao
(and… what… God?)
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Want to play? Just take a look at your 25 top keywords. No cheating, but you can put them in a different order if you like. I just happen to like the order mine came in.
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You can learn how to write Haiku for real at haiku.insouthsea.co.uk. Their site header reads “In the moonlight a worm… silently drills through a chestnut.” Bet you want to find out what happened next…
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“Do or do not, there is no try. ”
—Yoda
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CREDITS:
- Post inspired by: Through the Google Glass at A Sensitivity to Things
- Title Image: Sparrow, Moon and Peach Blossoms, by Ando Hiroshige
Three thousand eyes band,
the poem starts
what good is there
for a lock with no key?
Sufjan Dylan,
10 gallon hat,
Barn Owl Mccarthy.
Nice one, Alf. I think it would be best read with a lazy guitar strumming in the background, and a few thousand stars overhead.
Thanks for taking part, John at A Sensitivity to Things. Actually I’m going to add a credit to the original post because it was probably your post Through the Google Glass which inspired this train of thought in the first place.
Just for random amusement, I found the following in my search terms yesterday:
clarks shoes heart melted
words rhyming with lion
miel para hongos
da vinci wood planks
The third translates from Spanish as “honey for mushrooms” which either has a meaning other than the literal, or is just refreshingly random. Since installing Global Translator my search terms have certainly become more… well… global.
Gosh Sumangali—you the inspiration for my blog post, and now I am getting the credit? I do seem to recall, way back when memory mostly fails and accuracy runs for cover, seizing the term “In Search of Serendipity” as if it were my own, and starting to write a certain post on Google search phrases…
This post really lives up to your purpose statement for the blog. This really is serendipity. I hate to ask such a technical question in this type of environment but I want to do what you say, but I’m not sure how to find the phrases and keywords.
Hello again Scott, glad you came back!
Your host will be able to give you access to your stats, and depending on what programme they use, there should be a section somewhere on the page which will show you your top search terms and keywords. I hope you find them and come back with some new poetry! Either way, stats are a jolly interesting read.
Best wishes
Sumangali
Here’s my 25 top keywords used on search engines – rearranged for the joy of it:
shardul quotes it
the music of sri chinmoy
be a whole people
and in richest heart
from what new meaning
blake to martin luther king
Love the Yoda quote Sumangali – a pearl!
A poem in the same vein from Sri Chinmoy:
Don’t Try, But Do…
Try and fail:
This was the discovery
I made
While I stayed
In the mind’s hesitation-world.
Do and succeed:
This is the discovery
I have now made
Since I have been staying
In the heart’s confidence-world.
—
Thanks for the word game,
Shardul.
This is really fabulous, Shardul! Your keyword poem is excellent, and Sri Chinmoy’s poem is like a soulful, meaning-full expansion of my favourite Star Wars quote (which is moderately meaningful but minimal)
Thanks a lot for dropping in
Sumangali
Hi Sumangali,
To make an English Haiku of 3 -5-3 for a total of 11, I chose the following words from my top 25 key words:
white dove bird
of my silence heart
Sri Chinmoy
then a more traditional 5 -7-5 17 syllable:
tallest giant red tree
panorama tallest tree
playing God in life
perhaps my most interesting one in the last week or so was the following search entered at the meta search engine dogpile:
meditated the next day a praying mantis appeared.
Very beautiful, Sharani. Thanks for playing the game, and, special thanks for following the rules of real haiku!
Sumangali