var numOfHaiku = 37;
function haiku() {
var haiku = new Array(numOfHaiku + 1);
haiku[0]="I've always wondered
Why frisbees look big when they're close
Then the disc hit me
- by Andrea, Age 19";
haiku[1]="Seven girls in red
Throwing, catching, and sweating
Their way to the top
- by Fabby, Age 20";
haiku[2]="Drawn to the frisbee
As a cliched moth to flame
How i love the disc
- by Tasha, Age 21";
haiku[3]="Ultimate
In the springtime sun
Soaring discs are fun to chase--
Go deep for the huck
- by Kaitlin, Age 21";
haiku[4]="Defense
Wild and thorny Rose
Get on the mark and stall count
No huck! No break! Turn!
- by Kaitlin, Age 21";
haiku[5]="The Roses are hot
We rock the ultimate field
Crazy sexy cool
- by Tasha, Age 21";
haiku[6]="The endzone ahead
I totally burned that girl
Jess, huck it to me!
- by Tasha, Age 21";
haiku[7]="Ithaca is cold
We play in the snow: lay out!
There's ice in my shirt!
- by Tasha, Age 21";
haiku[8]="Bagels and oranges
Peanut butter; the sideline
Is the place to be
- by Tasha, Age 21";
haiku[9]="Mud puddle equals
frisbee magnet: LAY OUT! SPLASH!
Take it for the team
- by Tasha, Age 21";
haiku[10]="The grass it was dry
Looked up to see a disc fly
Plucked it from the sky
- by Sara Allen, Age 19";
haiku[11]="White on the inside
But yellow on the outside
Rah, bananas, RAAAAAHHH!!!
- by CJ, Age 20";
haiku[12]="The Roses are red
So are everybody else
Oh well, let's go red!
- by CJ, Age 20";
haiku[13]="Lay out for the disc
We don't care about the mud
Just go for the dive
- by CJ, Age 20";
haiku[14]="Going for the disc
Diving like there's no other
&%$#! It's astroturf!
- by CJ, Age 20";
haiku[15]="Happy tournaments
We drive hours at a time
Yay for damn Upstate
- by CJ, Age 20";
haiku[16]="The Roses spring break
Always stop by Waffle House
On our way down south
- by CJ, Age 20";
haiku[17]="Late nights in Barton
Even though it goes till one
It's a ton of fun
- by CJ, Age 20";
haiku[18]="See the pretty disc
Cut through the air like a bird
But one without wings
- by Grace, Age 20";
haiku[19]="I am up at 3
Writing ultimate haikus
Because i can't sleep
- by Grace, Age 20";
haiku[20]="I love the Roses
Everyone should play with us
Because we are great
- by Grace, Age 20";
haiku[21]="Snow melts go outside!
It's April there's a blizzard
Boo. Go back inside
- by Alex, Age 20";
haiku[22]="The death of the bee
Got lost in the sandwiches
But we ate them still
- by Big Clare, Age 20";
haiku[23]="Clap clap clap clap clap
Because the roses are hot
Clap clap clap clap clap
- by Ellie, Age 20";
haiku[24]="Inverse Haiku
Cutting, running, laying out
It's time for a rest
Damn where did my Nalgene go?!
- by Claudia, Age 21";
haiku[25]="Inverse Haiku
Go Roses! Let's see it flow!
We're the sideline crew.
Cheering! Uh oh blacking out.
- by Claudia, Age 21";
haiku[26]="Inverse Haiku
Bagels with peanut butter.
Yum! oranges too!
Riki ate the rice crispies!
- by Claudia, Age 21";
haiku[27]="Inverse Haiku
Two thirty AM. Tired.
Had late night practice
Sorry, wrote inverse haikus.
- by Claudia, Age 21";
haiku[28]="life lacks discs of fun,
when separate from Roses.
potlucks call, can't wait.
-by Dana, Age 20";
haiku[29]="crazy dance parties,
frisbee style like none other.
3am, what? duh.
-by Dana, age 20";
haiku[30]="Frisbee withdrawal
broken heart yearns for plastic
one more week of break
-by Carly and Ali, age 21";
haiku[31]="tired and dirty
no more animal crackers
must play more frisbee!
-by Carly and Ali, age 21";
haiku[32]="boxo is evil
bane of ultimate players
but oh so tasty
-by Carly and Ali, age 21";
haiku[33]="wow we look like fools
still counting on our fingers
we go to Cornell?
-by Carly and Ali, age 21";
haiku[34]="Sadie doesn't see
my infinite love for her
we are in a fight.
-by Carly and Ali, age 21";
haiku[35]="Ithaca so cold
Georgia suns blinds Cornell eyes
Spring Break = fabulous
-by Carly and Ali, age 21";
haiku[36]="I should chase them down
(Jin and Tonic stole my bra)
But instead we laugh
-by Carly and Ali, age 21";
haiku[37]="Red Rose or White Rose
Rose Flow, Rose Love, T-Horny
Cornell Ultimate!!
-by Carly and Ali, age 21";
indxOfHaiku = rndInteger();
strHaiku = haiku[indxOfHaiku];
return strHaiku;
}
function rndInteger() {
var rndNumber = -1;
while (rndNumber <0 || rndNumber > numOfHaiku || isNaN(rndNumber)) {
rndNumber = parseInt(Math.random() * (numOfHaiku + 1));
}
return rndNumber;
}