Also like the fact the shadow of a a wheelbarrow just touches the edges of the words here. And that is nicely done - two more cultures in connection with the piece. Your piece stands on its own feet. I'm clapping here.
Our lives depend on diversity. Many engineers have Aspergers and have much to contribute without poems. Many poets have accountants and don't need math.
At least not the poetry of words. I knew a lady accountant once who told me she dreamed in numbers.*
Also like the fact the shadow of a a wheelbarrow just touches the edges of the words here. And that is nicely done - two more cultures in connection with the piece. Your piece stands on its own feet. I'm clapping here.
Yes. So much depends on...*
Bridges are poems. Meticulously structured. Fave*
So much depends on engineers? I thought it was white chickens and a red wheelbarrow. Fav.
Math can be poetry. So can blueprints and drawings and dreams. And poetry can be all these things and more. I like this muchly.
I have to deduct a style point since the last line only has 4 syllables. "None of whom need poems."? "Who don't need poems, dude."?
As an engineer I can categorically negate your Haiku
Your lives do not depend on us
We do need poems
Our lives depend on diversity. Many engineers have Aspergers and have much to contribute without poems. Many poets have accountants and don't need math.
What they need and what they want . . . Nice one. *
I swear I commented on this.
Anyway, what Garth said. :)
Best haiku I've read in many moons!
Ah more engineers! and haiku.
I am grateful for all the responses to this tiny piece. Also pleased by the range of response.
. . . so much depends . . . *
*, Gary. I really like how you can write good poetry from things non-poetic. To me, it's like another genre of "found" art.
"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack of what is found there."
William Carlos Williams
For me, forget the syllables and go for the poem. Form be damned.
our lives depend on
engineers
who don't need poems
BOOM!
yeah, a poem never saved anybody's life. But, it made ALL da babies.
Engineers on top
story near perfection, doves
crowd eaves with high coos.
Thanks for getting us all riled up, Gary -- good work!
I tell my students this every day. And then I ask them to write some. *
I tell my students this every day. And then I ask them to write some. *
I think the very people who think they don't need poems are the ones who need them the most.