by Grand Canyon Trust Staff
No waxing poetic on National Haiku Day. We’re celebrating the Grand Canyon in short verse.
As advocates for the Grand Canyon and Colorado Plateau, language is a powerful tool we use to speak for our public lands. We write op-eds, send emails, and submit formal comments and legal briefs. Try as we may to be concise, our love of place occasionally floods the page.
But brevity is an art, and today is National Haiku Day. So in the spirit of exercising economy of words, we tasked our staff with writing Grand Canyon haikus.
True to form, we counted our syllables — five, seven, five — and, in three short lines, attempted to capture our favorite memories of time spent below the rim.