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Your Haiku, Please?

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

- A close second…Mark says:

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

- 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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43 Responses

  1. Fred says:

    let me see…

  2. Karen says:

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

  3. Bruce Hamilton says:

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

  4. Alvaro says:

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

  5. Techne says:

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

  6. Alvaro says:

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

  7. terri says:

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

  8. qt says:

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

  9. Millie says:

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

  10. jolovli says:

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

  11. campercourt says:

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

  12. kestrel says:

    first white is purple

    or it was red I think

    now haiku, what next?

  13. Lloyd says:

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

  14. Moose Wilson says:

    very aesthetic contemporaries…..

  15. Shardith says:

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

  16. stacey says:

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

  17. triple rhyming haiku says:

    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:

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

  19. Steve says:

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

  20. Valerie says:

    My haiku:

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

  21. tina says:

    Don’t you dare to say

    Only 3 percent I’ve used

    After all these brain tease?!

  22. Behrooz says:

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

  23. Thank you for all the beautiful haikus!

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

  24. Kjo says:

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

  25. Sarah says:

    (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

  26. Sarah says:

    oops, forget to mention that there is one extra letter…

  27. Sarah says:

    I can’t find a way to edit…I miscounted…so here is the revised.

    Apologies.

    Willow Hides Yesterday’s Dreams Of

    Whispered Exclamations And Levitating Leaves Drooping Red

    Embers And My question mark

  28. JRN4231 says:

    Brains need sleep to work
    Otherwise they fizzle out
    Go to bed early

  29. jairo obando says:

    I like do haiku
    but always is over seven
    then try it the last

  30. Pascal says:

    This was quite puzzling,
    Yet I have learned a lot,
    I will soon forget.

  31. JR says:

    Why do I often seem to
    think about something
    and then forget what it was

  32. Margaret Hookey says:

    Brain research could help with:

    Looking into your kind face
    Intently
    Suddenly your name is gone.

  33. Steven says:

    spaghetti noodles
    science, save us from the creeps
    cure stupidity

  34. Linda says:

    thanks to your teasers
    my brain previously old
    now is much younger

  35. James says:

    So much to think of.
    I continuously try.
    My brain hurt so much.

  36. Frankie says:

    how does a toddler
    know when mom is on the phone
    time to play loudly

  37. Loren says:

    Thought I was crazy
    Found my brain was just lazy
    New tools may save me!

  38. jack says:

    these were kind off hard
    but i had fun nonetheless
    i bookmarked this site

  39. Allou eyeguy says:

    teasing of the mind

    brain matter stimulation

    cognitive cool down

  40. ann says:

    i’m not a poet
    but it would be nice to see
    research explain me

  41. Joey says:

    I love brain teasers,
    For stimulating the mind
    How awesome is that

  42. Matjie says:

    pick up just one more
    trajectory seems endless
    sugary refuge

  43. Me says:

    Ha Haiku Haiku
    Haiku Haiku Haiku Ha
    Haiku Need Tissue

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