Here's a long shot idea conceived on a pleasant evening while enjoying a few Sierra Nevada Torpedos.
How many would like to contribute a survey themed Haiku. There are only a few simple rules, and really, why be constrained to surveying, now that I think about it.
You can see that the "young man from Nantuckitt" format doesn't really fit the structure, but the sentiment is certainly allowed. Well, maybe not on this forum:-)
Anyway, here's a start:
A young surveyor
Finding corners in the woods
Sees his lifelong joy
Don
Found a pin cushion
None of the corners were right
I set a new one. 😛
--
Surveying the land
To show people how it lies
Acres at a time
--
Calibrate the rod
Calibrate the EDM
But, rodmen are dumb
Subcontractor said
By close of business Friday
Last time I use them
find the misclosure
subdivide millimeter
all is right again
Haiku Haiku
All things considered
Very last thoughts of Haiku
Were back in High School
Long, long time ago
When I was just a puppy
Now am an old dog
Paul in PA
I set all those hubs
A damn grader tore them out
What a waste of time
You want it all shot?
I'll do it for, say, fifteen
No, not fifteen bucks
This is just stupid
Never heard of a haiku
They don't even rhyme
Haikoo! (bless you)
LOL, that's a good one. "But, but, all the flags went away..."
jam up jelly tight
beware the next soothsayer
observations count
B-)
Bogus theory here
Section re subdivided
Another one sixteenth here!
This could be titled “.04”:
Error or mistake?
As Maxwell Smart would put it,
“Missed it by that much.”
This next is not about surveying. I wrote it (snatched it from the air as it drifted by) in the spring of 1999, when the Fish & Wildlife people were trying to capture a few beavers that had appeared in the Tidal Basin and cut down a few of the Japanese cherry trees that surround it:
Grieving petals wilt
in Washington. The beavers
cannot tell a lie.
Once or twice, as I fiddled with these things, there emerged a ten-syllable one-liner that had a little haiku sauce in it:
Kezar Lake
Loon’s call at dusk: a horse on helium.
One of my very favorites is by John Wesley Harding; it's called "One Haiku":
The Biggest Problem
When you write a haiku is
Running out of syl
Cheers,
Henry
Limerick-Haiku
Found this one on the internets. (sorry not survey-related)
There was an old man
From Peru, whose lim’ricks all
Look’d like haiku. He
Said with a laugh “I
Cut them in half, the pay is
Much better for two.”
(I don't know the author.)
Limerick-Haiku
:good:
O, license revoked!
In Arizona, he had
No sense of Yuma
Once you go pro
it's not fair to come back and compete with the amateurs 😉
Just purchased the Kindle version of The Flying Change, so the next time you're at McDonalds feel free to supersize it on me.
Lath, hubs, flags and stones
Theodolite and compass
Whiskey bottle, too
shovel on the grass
screaming metal detector
somewhere dogs barking
the thorns of defiance
my pain of traversing through
honey locust die!
DDSM:beer:
Working in the rain
Never seems to have it's shame
Some have to do it
Except for today, it ain't raining! :clap: B-)
Once you go pro
Thanks! By the way, I went to college with a man named Steve Fleming, who went on to publish a novel called The Exile of Sergeant Nen. I don't know what happened to him after that, and probably you don't either, but I think of him sometimes when I see your posts.
Cheers,
Henry
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