No S Diet Haiku

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mailgirl
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No S Diet Haiku

Post by mailgirl » Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:20 am

No seconds today,
It is not an S day yet.
I must have patience.

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Post by ThomsonsPier » Wed Oct 06, 2010 3:35 pm

An apposite post;
and delaying one's pleasure
sweetens enjoyment.
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Post by DaveMc » Wed Oct 06, 2010 5:36 pm

This looks like
a haiku; it has the shape.
But it's not.

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Post by reinhard » Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:56 pm

I love it! Thanks, mailgirl, for starting this thread -- and please keep the haikus coming, fellow diet poets. :-)

In the book I wrote:
The No S Diet is a diet plan so short and simple that
it fits on the cover of this book. No pseudoscience, no
miracle foods, no counting calories or carbs or fat or
points, no disgusting recipes or draconian meal plans, just
plain old common sense, charmingly and mnemonically
codified. In brevity: a mantra, a haiku, a spell. But
down to earth as a Kansas wheat field.
Thanks to this thread I just noticed that with a little bit of shifting of whitespace the no s diet IS a haiku.

No snacks, no sweets, no
seconds; except (sometimes) on
days that start with S.

It's not particularly imaginative or poetic, perhaps, but it's kind of cool that it works. And who knows, maybe reformulating it like this highlights some profound, hitherto unappreciated aspects of No S. :-)

Sometimesians will be pleased to note that only the original 14 word version works as haiku.

Reinhard

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Post by Jammin' Jan » Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:12 am

"Self-denial's a
great sweetener of pleasure"
Therein lies the joy!
"Self-denial's a great sweetener of pleasure."
(Patrick McGoohan's "The Prisoner")

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