i lived i died …
i lived and died again and again
and i still learned nothing
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This forum is about the Haiku operating system, a desktop oriented OS inspired by the BeOS. More detailed information can be found here: What is Haiku? | Haiku Project
Now, I’m sorry to say that wasn`t in Haiku form (I’m not much of a poet I’m afraid) but at least you have finally learned something 
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You counted your syllables wrong. Lived is 1 syllable and again 2, you got 4-9-7 (maybe 6, uncertain if lived is 1 or 2) instead of the standard 5-7-5.
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Haiku police here, we got a 4-9-6 situation on the discuss forums.
I repeat, we got a 4-9-6 situation on the forums. Over.
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I’d just like to mention that the 5-7-5 rule is quite silly for a type of poem that comes from Japan, where they don’t use that…
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thanks yall its been awhile just figure did pop in maybe ill work in relearning the coding aspect this timeline anyways going to the beach tommorrow have a good day
puts on nerd glasses
What’s generally referred to as Haiku, 5-7-5 are the first 3 verses of a Tanka (short poem, 5-7-5-7-7), generally also known as Waka (Japanese poem, as opposed to Chinese poetry, which was also very popular).
Many Wakas had been already written by early Heian (9th century) with many official imperial compilations (and countless private ones) and had their own canons and codephrases and all sorts of references in them.
Anyway long story short, as far as I know, Matsuo Bashō one day in the 17th century cut a bunch of Wakas in half and liked it, so Haiku generally is written as 5-7-5. (J/k I didn’t study Bashō, but 5-7-5 comes from there)
When it’s in English however I guess some stylistic liberty could be accepted, syllables ain’t quite the same deal 
Most English haikus written today also lack cutting words and seasonal words, so the nuances of moreas versus syllables really get lost quickly :P. These are more like senryus.
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