Summer high-Q: watching the falling bits

Haiku is a form of non-rhyming Japanese poetry whose form in English often consists of 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, typically with a pause in the middle to split a comparison or contrast. Classical Haiku invokes Nature or one of the Seasons. So for this week's NA Digest (Oct 23, 2007), where it's still Summer here in Florida, enjoy a numerically resonant high-Q:

Floating in number,
result of add off by eps :
bit of summer err.

Here are a few more (not yet posted on the NA Digest).

Etrees in autumn,
elm and yew leaves are falling :
L and U fill-in.

Two coders at sea,
for pair programming extreme ;
C shanties they sing.

Captain sails at C,
wavelets lap against the bow :
Kernel for Saylor.

A summer blessing :
May descendents multiply,
non-transitive life.

Land-lubbers set sail,
C coding in mexFunction :
MATLUBbers at C.

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If you like this poem, you can find more poems at Horror Matrices and Other Mathematical Poetry. Click here for an index of my serious poetry.