Shuttin’ It Down-Haikus of the Voyage 2/20/09
Thursday, February 19th, 2009Tomorrow we berth back in Lyttleton, New Zealand and we are all off on new and exciting adventures. I wrote some Haiku to help me reflect and remember my cruise aboard the Thomas G. Thompson. Enjoy !
My Room
White Fluorescent Light
Survival Suit to take Flight
Night and Day daynight…
My Work Station
Electrical Wires
Corner Rolly Chair Nausea
Stuck behind John C.
Anne Sheehan-CIRES Scientist
Jump Roper Outside
Managing the Boys Science
Fisher Star Watcher
John Collins-Head Scientist Woods Hole
Singing Randomly
Big Feet Small Hands Irish Lilt
Fraid of da Movie
Peter – CIRES Scientist
Wooly Bear of Grey
Yes, Yes, No, The Cosine of
Run to the Whale
Paul Scripps Electrical Tech.
Big Big Flannel Plaid
I’m in the picture, big head
Little white fuzzy dogs
Southern Cross
Stars sometimes come out
Clouds in the dark cover jewels
Pointers bisectors
Albatross
Float glide slide up down
Wandering Royal Gooney
Following garbage
Tess-Cook
Glasgow Red Pirate
Bull in the kitchen proud
Grandma Kansas City-que
J-Chief Mate
Clipboard no hair cut
Zip he goes everywhere, who’s there?
Zip naked chest strong
Fear of Falling Off
Walking tipping off
Flipping off into the blue cold hold mute repose
OBSs
Marching thirty strong
Benthic drum earth’s pulse below
Yellow shiney toe
Ocean Water
Blue green grey white black
Big glassy big sassy slop
Salt
Repetition/Ground Hogs
Day
day day day day day
night night night nite night night night
déjà vu e tu?
Music
Mine theirs classic blues
Head phones speakers and crackling
Transcend me to the
Working Out
Running Biking Push
I Look At Trees Canada
Sweat Soaked Dripping Shirt
Marshall-Coast Guard Guy
Adaptable guy
Chess Scrabble Crane director
Ice swim Alaska
India-Cook
Lost hat blown away
Spartan Salida Glow Worm
Missoula homey
David-Graduate Student CU-Boulder
Sleep void night troller
Feel well feel up down around
Digitize image
Rob-science tech
Gruffin computer
Sits in a chair chats atch ya
Pennsylvania
Alex-science tech
What did you say? What?
night owl renaissance Wizard
observer with care
Captain Phil
Amiable chap
How are you? saunter here there
Science steward care
Jim-engineer
Piston puller wrench
Ping pong spinner demon flare
Tatts of Warner Bros
Mark-Scripps Crew
All American hardhat
Marine dad pumper of iron
El-CHEAP0 so DEEPO
Ernie-Scripps Crew
Fishing with hand line
South Carolina heart felt
Loves the guinea nature
Thompson
Pastel boat so strong
World worker freighter too
Seattle Peugeot dew
Anne’s OBS Haiku
Sail the ocean blue
Drop yellow balls randomly
Hope they all come back
Thanks to the National Science Foundation that made this possible.
Sincerely, Dan Tomlin (DT Teacher at Sea)






