A Basalt Trek Geo-Haiku

on a high plateau
jagged basalt Cretaceous
curious travelers walk...

and a friend sent in this one -

through windswept fields
we tread on dead volcanoes,
A gentle dog follows

- Sushma Date

A Collection of Geological Haiku

The Haiku meme I started some time back got quite a good response. I have posted below links to all the aspiring poets in the geoblogosphere who contributed. As I had hoped the meme mutated as it spread through the population of geologists. My initial rule of a reference to a geological time period was made more fluid and rightly so I think to a reference to the passing of geological time or a reference to a geological process. Bloggers also wrote short accompanying explanations and posted visuals too. That made for some imaginative and evocative verse.

If I have missed anyone let me know and I will update the list.

In no particular order:

• Bryan at In Terra Veritas
• Silver Fox at Looking for Detachment
• Lockwood at Outside The Interzone
• MJC Rocks at Geotripper
• JJ at The Ethical Palaeontologist
• Life Long Scholar at The Musings of a Life Long Scholar
• Kim at All My Faults Are Stress Related
• Dave at Geology News
• Short Geologist at Accidental Remediation
• Neat Rox at Neat Gemstones
• Chris at Highly Allochthonous
• Kenneth Clark at Office of Redundancy Office
• Sciencewomen at Sciencewomen
• Rob Clack at Dem Bones Dem Bones
  
• Suvrat at Reporting on a Revolution

To end this thread since climate change is the issue all of us are going to be grappling with over the next few decades some thoughts:

warm chill warm
a mere blip Holocene
until the big freeze

The Geology Haiku Meme

Announcing the Geology Haiku Meme

deep in a bioreef
a Permian story
calcite dripstones tell

Respond Geobloggers!

Rules: Three lines and a max of seventeen syllables. Use of kigo, which is the traditional reference to a season, may be substituted by a reference to a geological period. The use of kireji, which is a word that serves to give structural support to the verse is not widely practiced in English haiku, so you may give that a pass.

Leave a link in my comments section and I'll post a collection of Geology Haiku links soon :-)

See: A Collection of Geological Haiku