President Adam Falk proclaimed Friday, October 18, Mountain Day with this haiku…
The mountains call us,
“No classes today, come play!”
Ephs to Stoney Ledge!
— Adam Falk
President and Professor
Williams College
…and members of the Executive Committee of the Society of Alumni responded with their own. Decide for yourself if their efforts below meet Wikipedia’s definition: “Traditional haiku consist of 17 on (also known as morae), in three phrases of 5, 7 and 5 on respectively. Any one of the three phrases may end with the kireji. Although haiku are often stated to have 17 syllables, this is inaccurate as syllables and on are not the same.”
We loved fall colors
last Sunday, hiking Berkshires.
I remembered you.
— Mary Moule ’91
Does anyone know
If “Williams” is two or three?
Trouble with counting
— Aroop Mukharji ’09
No purple mountains
Seen past buildings left and right
But I sure feel them!
— Funmi Olosunde ’06
Texas heat still here.
Wishing I were in Billsville.
Fall, oh where are you?
— Liz Craft Ferguson ’98
Swamps beckon me here
Oh Louisiana !
Williamstown you’re not.
— Anamaria Villamarin-Lupin ’95
A creative group!
Williams inspires us all.
To more mountain days.
— Jane Garvey ’78
Step outside and breathe.
Pretend you’re there, sunshine, leaves,
Mountain Day is ours.
— Liz Haff ’75
The best thing about
Williams Mountain Day is this:
I don’t have to climb!
— John Dighton ’53
Fleeting warm weather.
Mountain Day we celebrate.
The Ice Man cometh.
— Donna Ching ’84
The only mountains
HERE are in the laundry room.
I miss the Berkshires!
— Lee Szykowny ’80
We all remember
The day for running away
So lucky, so free
— Cora Yang ’80
The mountains! The mount
Ains! we greet them with a song,
Whose echoes, rebound
— [Prefers to remain anonymous so as not to have English course credits revoked]
Can’t be in Billsville,
but it’s our Mountain Day too.
So let’s celebrate!
— Dennis O’Shea ’77