Fishbowl Haiku
If there’s one time of year that should give us cause to pause and look out from our legal Fishbowls it’s the autumn. Given the season, I thought I’d invite us all to take a break from our computer screens and document briefs and look out our windows to reflect on nature.
I had just such a moment of distraction last spring that I let slip into a Tweet. Peg Duncan (keeper of the LexUM e-discovery case law digests) translated it into this wonderful English-style Haiku:
the tower creaks
in the cool east wind
ridable waves in Toronto
Just awesome! And pretty hard to match.
The last time I wrote a poem was in Grade 2, but here’s one for size anyway.
little lost fly
thirty floors above Bay Street
fly away home
Are you inspired? Please share a Fishbowl Haiku by way of comment.
reading law
I feel wind on the pane
snow is coming
a box within
a box inside a box
am I the gift?
Here in Vancouver
Lotus blossoms and the law
Equilibrium
Thank you Simon and Anne. I am working outside of the fishbowl today, but you nonetheless brought me a smile. Dan.