Apr 24, 2008
Your Haiku, Please?
By: Alvaro Fernandez
We concluded our Top 50 Brain Teasers post with the challenge: 
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?
let me see…
Brain training others
Like watching the Earth open
One thought at a time
My brain stem works hard,
But the tests are much harder,
Need more grey matter
Can perform better,
Learning, training, and practice
Body, brain and mind
Solve the big questions:
How do I know when I know?
Who knows the knower?
Who knows the knower
who deeply knows the knower?
Techne, this is hard!
strokes take speech away
someone should find a quick fix
everyone needs to speak
Aha, a challenge
for the brain to endeavour
sooner than later
Playing music feeds
my soul while reading music
nurtures my old brain.
improving function
smoked too much weed in college
it’s never too late
It is morning now
The sun rose very early
Goodmorning to you
first white is purple
or it was red I think
now haiku, what next?
I thought so damn Hard.
My brain built lots of pressure.
I farted out loud.
very aesthetic contemporaries.….
Answers are easy
After you click on the link
To look them all up
I thought is was fun.
Then it got a lot harder.
Wow i suck at this.
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
Brain hurts so badly
Working night shift: not so fun
Need to get some sleep
Neuroplastic good.
Plastic, though lasts forever.
Always recycle!
My haiku:
Can brain research prove
that the placebo effect
is better than drugs?
Don’t you dare to say
Only 3 percent I’ve used
After all these brain tease?!
So hard yet so fun
And a haiku in the end
Who are you people!?
Thank you for all the beautiful haikus!
Behrooz, good question,
the source of hard fun we are,
for your brain power!
haikus are not hard
but they stimulate the brain
too much for today
(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
oops, forget to mention that there is one extra letter…
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
Brains need sleep to work
Otherwise they fizzle out
Go to bed early
I like do haiku
but always is over seven
then try it the last
This was quite puzzling,
Yet I have learned a lot,
I will soon forget.
Why do I often seem to
think about something
and then forget what it was
Brain research could help with:
Looking into your kind face
Intently
Suddenly your name is gone.
spaghetti noodles
science, save us from the creeps
cure stupidity
thanks to your teasers
my brain previously old
now is much younger
So much to think of.
I continuously try.
My brain hurt so much.
how does a toddler
know when mom is on the phone
time to play loudly
Thought I was crazy
Found my brain was just lazy
New tools may save me!
these were kind off hard
but i had fun nonetheless
i bookmarked this site
teasing of the mind
brain matter stimulation
cognitive cool down
i’m not a poet
but it would be nice to see
research explain me
I love brain teasers,
For stimulating the mind
How awesome is that
pick up just one more
trajectory seems endless
sugary refuge
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Haiku Haiku Haiku Ha
Haiku Need Tissue