404 — Not Found

Haiku

17 Syllables of Loss

Page lost in the void
Wandering through empty space
Nothing awaits here

Limerick

Five Lines of Misfortune

There once was a page on the web That nobody could ever get The link led astray Lost somewhere that day And now it's four-oh-four, you bet

Sonnet

Fourteen Lines for a Missing Page

I sought the page with eager, clicking hand,
And followed every link with hopeful trust,
But found instead a void, a barren land,
Where once a page stood proud, now turned to dust.

The server spoke its cold, impartial line,
"Four hundred four — this address is no more."
No breadcrumb left, no redirecting sign,
Just silence where a page stood once before.

Yet in this void perhaps a lesson hides,
That not all things we seek were meant to stay,
The web, like time itself, forever slides,
And some addresses simply fade away.

So close the tab, and wander somewhere new —
The page is gone, but other worlds break through.

Tanka

Five Lines, Two More Than a Haiku

The link snapped in two
A thread cut between us both
I kept on waiting
The page never found its way
Back to where it used to live

Villanelle

The Loop That Never Resolves

The page you sought has ceased to be,
It vanished through some phantom door,
HTTP four-oh-four.

No cache holds what you came to see,
The server's given up the score,
The page you sought has ceased to be.

You typed the address carefully
And landed on an empty shore,
HTTP four-oh-four.

The link once lived so carelessly,
But now it answers nevermore,
The page you sought has ceased to be.

Refresh the page — still nothing free,
Just this: a number at your door,
HTTP four-oh-four.

Accept the void philosophically —
All links grow stale, all websites bore.
The page you sought has ceased to be,
HTTP four-oh-four.

Acrostic

Not Found, Spelled Out

N—No page here, just an empty shore O—Once perhaps it lived, now lost in lore T—Typed the link, yet nothing answered back F—Fading into static, losing track O—Only silence greets you at this gate U—Uncharted void where websites dissipate N—None shall pass, the server said today D—Drifted off to somewhere far away