A Trilobite Haiku

Graceful Trilobite

denizen of ancient seas

Only stones remain

If you can create a worse haiku on the subject of trilobites I would love to see them!

A haiku tribute to sea slugs and their discoverers

Professor Robin Gill is one of the great unsung heroes who have truly enriched the human existence. He cannot be compared with say Fred Sanger (the scientist who is without doubt the greatest living Briton - and the only living double Nobel laureate). That is like comparing a pineapple with a mango (both wonderful in their own way) but his mangnum opus Rise Ye Sea Slugs touches the heart and soul of anyone who owns a copy (or who has borrowed a copy or has just seen it on a bookshelf or on a coffee table)

Rise ye sea slugs is a collection of 1,000 haiku on the subject of the sea cucumber

It is in tribute to this great work and of course to Jeff Goddard that I give you this haiku

In tiny ocean

Sea slug lives peacefully

Brings joy to Goddard


Bah! my haiku are worse than my poems and not in a McGonagall or MacIntyre "so bad they're brilliant way"

Ah well, back to dirty limericks for me....

A Sea Slug Haiku

following on from my previous post and inspired by Robin D Gill whose book Rise Ye Sea Slugs which contains 900 glorious haikus on the subject, I feel compelled to provide my own haiku in honour of the nudibranch:

Oh mighty Sea Slug
wily thief of chloroplasts
makes food from sunlight

Hmm I think I'll stick to photographs!

Actually Rise ye Sea Slugs actually contains haikus on the subject of sea cucumbers but what the hey!

My first Sea Cucumber Haiku

Holothurian
Will eviscerate itself
if you tread on it

Hmm perhaps a bit lame. I will try better next time