Pseudo Haiku
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During 2023, I tried to write a haiku-like poem every day. I was mostly successful, though I would occasionally miss some days, thus requiring some crash-writing in following days to catch up. I took off from the effort in 2024 until May 29, when I restarted with a splash.

My pseudo-haiku poems are 17 syllables in three lines in the format 5-7-5 syllables. In that, they are similar to classic Haiku. However, unlike classical haiku, mine are not restricted to topics from nature (though some are about nature), but range over many topics, including some bearing on my personal state. Some of them are deliberately totally silly. They can be accessed by individual date, or can be printed on the screen in groups of five at a time. Each poem is named by its date in the format YY-MM-DD. When multiple poems occur on a given day, the names take the forms YY-MM-DD-A, YY-MM-DD-B,... etc. Thus, sometimes retrieving the haiku for a given date will result in displaying more than one poem.

The poems are stored in a SQLite database, with access -- input, retrieval, and display page generation -- all handled by ALS Prolog programs. The general forms of these programs are described in Prolog and the Web

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