Daiku: December 2011

30.12.11

Postdiluvian clarity

Venus Jupiter

And silver sliver of Moon

Jewels in azure

27.12.11

Jacob Bronowski

Jacob Bronowski
wrote of Man in the ascendancy
forgetting women are
fah superiah

20.12.11

East meets West

Bonsai Christmas Tree
Occident and Orient
mixed like this haiku

19.12.11

Richard Dawkins
agreed with Stephen Hawking's
view science not religion will claim the God Particle
if LHC finds Higgs's boson's the genuine article.

or

To Peter Higgs, scientist,
talk of the God Particle made him pissed.
His had been the hard work predicting his boson
while priests and shamans had continued to doze on.

Which do you prefer?

18.12.11

The Bated Bard

Prof Jonathan Bate
brilliant BRLSI Bard talk
heard with bated breath

or

Prof Jonathan Bate
baited bears and Bated Bard
all the Globe's a stage

Which do you prefer? Let us know...

17.12.11

Prof Jonathan Bate

Prof Jonathan Bate
enthused about the Bard to a date
Pointing she asked "Is that Shakespeare?"
and dropped Rohypnol in his beer.

Very loosely inspired by listening to Prof Bate give a superb illustrated talk on next year's Shakespeare exhibition. Part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad taking place around the UK, the exhibition describes the life and times of Elizabethan theatre and Shakespeare in terms of the objects associated with it that have survived. The lecture room at the Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution was packed for the talk.

These include hazelnut shells (the litter left behind after the groundlings had enjoyed the popcorn of their era) and a money-box into which each theatre-goer placed his silver penny admittance fee (wherefrom we derive the term 'box office').

16.12.11

The Postman Always Blogs Twice

Scudding scatter'd clouds
Shred past silver'd gibbous moon
Dark December morn

or

Scudding scatter'd clouds
Shred gibbering gibbon moon
Dark December morn

I can't decide which I prefer. Can you?