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Highly commended haiku

22 May 2006

Tree in the Quad Coveted yard, wake, Cobbled-street-strollers unkempt Echo dawn-dreams caught.


  • - Chih-Chun Chen (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Computer Science)

  • Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø's Mission
  • The primary goals
  • Academic excellence
  • And learning for all.

  • - Paula Speller (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Registry)

  • Indian Bean Tree Requiem
  • Feels like looks like death.
  • Was bean, old bean. Has been. Not.
  • Isn't that called life?

  • - Janina Chowaniec (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Surgery)

  • Examinations
  • Cold blustery day
  • Red brick walls quicken my step
  • to unwelcome warmth

  • - Yee Yen Goh (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Life Sciences)

  • Portico-shadowed,
  • I lounge upon the stone steps
  • Cradled by wisdom

  • - Harriet Cooper (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø English)

  • We dance with photons
  • Explore the edge of our realm
  • From central London

  • Anthropic? I say,
  • The proof of the cosmos is
  • That we think in it.

  • - Anais Rassat (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Physics and Astronomy)

  • Bentham full of straw
  • In studious silence sits
  • For no head has he

  • Alumni
  • Bentham to Bowen
  • Eighteen Nobels and growing
  • Gandhi got going

  • - Tony Withstandley (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Union - Promotions & Marketing)

  • carelessly I grab
  • the naked Adam and Eve
  • on Medawar doors

  • - Beth Shaw (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø French)

  • Who is he?
  • Roaming the cloisters,
  • Hunched over, trolley in tow;
  • A regular ghost.

  • - Rikki Weir (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Geography)

  • The Cruciform Building
  • Crisscross crucifix
  • Ghosts of the sick walk your floors
  • Teaching new healers

  • - Rina Chotai (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Medical School)

  • How Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø converted me to vegetarianism
  • (Addressed to Jeremy Bentham)
  • Sausage lost allure
  • Passing your corpse with entrails
  • In a jar each day.

  • - Dr Hugh Goodacre (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Economics)

  • From joint to old stock
  • The 'Godless Institution'
  • Still making new ground

  • - Tom Wipperman (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Development Planning Unit)

  • Lightning minds, thoughts blaze,
  • London's golden, beating heart,
  • Then, now and always.

  • - Mary Moloney (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Finance Division)

  • Kagoshima boys
  • top hats, frock coats, nervous eyes
  • pause on Gower Street

  • - Mary Collins (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Immunology)

  • Jeremy Bentham
  • Attends each annual meeting
  • Death's no handicap

  • - Tracey Holloway (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Library Services)

  • No height restrictions
  • Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø entry, for all
  • The ride of your life

  • - Nikunj Gupta (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Engineering/Computer Science)

  • Wind-turned autumn leaves.
  • Ideas for a better world.
  • Changing yet changeless.

  • - Alan Smith (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Space and Climate Physics)

  • Flaxman sits on plinth
  • Must have been surprised to find
  • Someone sculpted him

  • - Diana Herman (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Library Services)

  • The sea of faith ebbs:
  • The godless institution
  • Rises on the shore

  • - Mark WainwrightÌý (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Constitution Unit )

  • Thinking lateral
  • university global
  • not Imperial

  • - John Kelsey (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Bartlett)