One Last Haiku

[keefe]

Monday night after 2200 PDT I received a text stating simply that one name was gaining a lot of traction in the coaching search. I drafted this haiku but ended up not sending it. I have since been encouraged to publish this last verse in commemoration of our collective quinquennial soul purging exercise. Smacznego!

rakish kayaker
gliding through azure kelp beds
piedmont sojourner

remember ankiel
basalt was also once hot
five years for cooling

hopi wood carvings
foretold the coming of sean
back is zona pride

there will be distress
please back away from the ledge
hello s o s

eno river pier
o give us a skilled sailor
cleansing waters heal

this name has traction
youth from the east will arrive
his foods are found here

so look closely now
crossroads between east and west
eight dishes or drink

[Shack]

URGAY

[keefe]

URGAY

Hardly

[thekahoona]

Monday night after 2200 PDT I received a text stating simply that one name was gaining a lot of traction in the coaching search. I drafted this haiku but ended up not sending it. I have since been encouraged to publish this last verse in commemoration of our collective quinquennial soul purging exercise. Smacznego!

rakish kayaker
gliding through azure kelp beds
piedmont sojourner

remember ankiel
basalt was also once hot
five years for cooling

hopi wood carvings
foretold the coming of sean
back is zona pride

there will be distress
please back away from the ledge
hello s o s

eno river pier
o give us a skilled sailor
cleansing waters heal

this name has traction
youth from the east will arrive
his foods are found here

so look closely now
crossroads between east and west
eight dishes or drink

This, no final verse
Pressure gives a precious stone
You have to haiku

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Smacznego!

Keefe,
I'm impressed.  "Bon Appétit!" from the Polish language.  We'll digest the final coaching search haiku with some fine Polish chrzan & musztarda.

[WesMatthewsFanClub]

URGAY

URCOOL!

Appreciated that, keefe. Thanks.

[Chicos' Buzz Scandal Countdown]

Monday night after 2200 PDT I received a text stating simply that one name was gaining a lot of traction in the coaching search. I drafted this haiku but ended up not sending it. I have since been encouraged to publish this last verse in commemoration of our collective quinquennial soul purging exercise. Smacznego!

rakish kayaker
gliding through azure kelp beds
piedmont sojourner

remember ankiel
basalt was also once hot
five years for cooling

hopi wood carvings
foretold the coming of sean
back is zona pride

there will be distress
please back away from the ledge
hello s o s

eno river pier
o give us a skilled sailor
cleansing waters heal

this name has traction
youth from the east will arrive
his foods are found here

so look closely now
crossroads between east and west
eight dishes or drink

totally. I knew even earlier on Monday.

[keefe]

Keefe,
I'm impressed.  "Bon Appétit!" from the Polish language.  We'll digest the final coaching search haiku with some fine Polish chrzan & musztarda.

Nutmeg

You're a ringer but hopefully this will stump even your lovely bride!

Na zdrowie!

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Nutmeg

You're a ringer but hopefully this will stump even your lovely bride!

Na zdrowie!

Cheers to you!

[Silkk the Shaka]

totally. I knew even earlier on Monday.

And what, pray tell, was your source?

[Eldon]

And what, pray tell, was your source?

That's it...next Halloween, I'm going as the source.

[keefe]

And what, pray tell, was your source?

Some dude named Jajuannaman. Said he is known as, "Deep Throat"

[Coleman]

odważny, Keefe!

[brandx]

Some dude named Jajuannaman. Said he is known as, "Deep Throat"

Not what I'm into - but to each his own

[keefe]

odważny, Keefe!

I married a German girl from Thiensville (what is a Thien?) but I served with Polish JTACs over in the Sandbox. Damned fine warriors and they had superb chow. Polish food is a blend of so many influences - local, Russian, Baltic, Scandinavian, German, Hungarian...simply wonderful.

[Silkk the Shaka]

That's it...next Halloween, I'm going as the source.

[Coleman]

I married a German girl from Thiensville (what is a Thien?) but I served with Polish JTACs over in the Sandbox. Damned fine warriors and they had superb chow. Polish food is a blend of so many influences - local, Russian, Baltic, Scandinavian, German, Hungarian...simply wonderful.

My fiance is 50% Polish, her dad is 100% and her grandparents (babcia and dziadzia) were both off the boat from Poland. Her grandfather actually had quite the story, fought for the Polish army in WWII, escaped from a Nazi prison camp, fought for the British, then emigrated to the US after the war. Wish I had gotten to meet them before they passed. Her grandmother was a painter, and has paintings in the White Eagle polish banquet hall in Niles, IL, the center of modern-day American Polonia. Her dad's potato pancakes are to this day the best I have ever eaten.

Fun fact: Chicago, where I live, is the largest Polish city outside of Poland with 180,000+ native speakers. Some amazing polish restaurants in the old Polish Downtown, and many a Catholic parish that still has masses in Polish.

I travel for pleasure quite frequently, and my next trip will probably include Krakow. I really want to see the salt mines and Auschwitz.

[Skatastrophy]

I married a German girl from Thiensville (what is a Thien?)

It's a last name. John Henry Thien.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiensville,_Wisconsin

[LAZER]

Sean Miller huh?

[drewm88]

Sean Miller huh?

I'm also curious. I don't mean to interrupt this Polish love fest, but can somebody fill me in on what that stanza means? I'm proud to say I think I follow the rest of it for once, although I give up if there are hidden letters.

[keefe]

Sean Miller huh?

A Red Pickled Herring for some Pickled Cabbage...

My verse is multi-layered, my friend...

People thought No Dexon was a mistake...in fact, read it again

N
O

D
EYE
X
O
N

Also in there is Eye as in AYE...

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

I married a German girl from Thiensville (what is a Thien?) but I served with Polish JTACs over in the Sandbox. Damned fine warriors and they had superb chow. Polish food is a blend of so many influences - local, Russian, Baltic, Scandinavian, German, Hungarian...simply wonderful.

My wife immigrated here from Poland in 1992 after graduating high school.  Her mom came here 2 years prior.  It was supposed to be a year to work and save money but the future mother-in-law loved it too much to go back.  The future wife came to visit mom and decided to stay.  The father-in-law didn't want to come.  He had a good job in Poland as an Assistant Principal and a teacher.

They ended up in Connecticut by a good story.

• My wife's grandmother was born in Springfield, MA.
• When her Great-Grandmother died the Great-Grandfather returned to Poalnd with the family in the early 30's.
• Similar to Blueteaux's inlaws, her great-aunt (grandmother's sister) got married.  Her now Great-uncle was in the Polish army when the Russians & Germans invaded Poland and was eventually taken as a POW and sent to Siberia.  When the Germans invaded Russia, all the Polish POWs were let go and he made his way through Iran to Egypt to join the Free Polish Army under the British.
• Her Great-uncle later got wounded at Monte Cassino and ended up in recovery in the UK.  After the war he headed to Bridgeport, CT as he landed a job there.
• The Great-aunt fianlly made it to the USA to catch up with her Great-uncle after not seeing him for 7 years.
• When the Berlin Wall fell my wife's family made the decision to come to the USA.  The wife and mother-in-law got Green Cards very easily because of my wife's grand-mother having been born in the USA.  They naturally headed to where they had family.

The wife has repeated several times that Chicago is one the largest Polish speaking cities in the world.  Greenpoint in Brooklyn, NY is another hot spot as well as New Britain, CT known locally as "New Britski", as well as Northern NJ.

[mujivitz06]

Connected through Warsaw this summer as a stop to my final destination, but the layover was 12 hours or so and I was able to take the opportunity to explore. Very nice city, interesting in that it was completely wiped out during WW2 so there is almost nothing historical to see other than what has been reconstructed as a representation. Very nice European city.

[keefe]

My wife immigrated here from Poland in 1992 after graduating high school.  Her mom came here 2 years prior.  It was supposed to be a year to work and save money but the future mother-in-law loved it too much to go back.  The future wife came to visit mom and decided to stay.  The father-in-law didn't want to come.  He had a good job in Poland as an Assistant Principal and a teacher.

They ended up in Connecticut by a good story.

• My wife's grandmother was born in Springfield, MA.
• When her Great-Grandmother died the Great-Grandfather returned to Poalnd with the family in the early 30's.
• Similar to Blueteaux's inlaws, her great-aunt (grandmother's sister) got married.  Her now Great-uncle was in the Polish army when the Russians & Germans invaded Poland and was eventually taken as a POW and sent to Siberia.  When the Germans invaded Russia, all the Polish POWs were let go and he made his way through Iran to Egypt to join the Free Polish Army under the British.
• Her Great-uncle later got wounded at Monte Cassino and ended up in recovery in the UK.  After the war he headed to Bridgeport, CT as he landed a job there.
• The Great-aunt fianlly made it to the USA to catch up with her Great-uncle after not seeing him for 7 years.
• When the Berlin Wall fell my wife's family made the decision to come to the USA.  The wife and mother-in-law got Green Cards very easily because of my wife's grand-mother having been born in the USA.  They naturally headed to where they had family.

The wife has repeated several times that Chicago is one the largest Polish speaking cities in the world.  Greenpoint in Brooklyn, NY is another hot spot as well as New Britain, CT known locally as "New Britski", as well as Northern NJ.

Yours and Bluteaux's stories are great, great threads in the tapestry of a noble people. Poland had the misfortune of being located at the crossroads of Europe. Marauding tribes from all directions went through Poland. On the plus side, though, is all that DNA mixing has resulted in one of the finest collections of female beauty in Europe. Polish women are magnificent.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

The search is over
Wojo now assumes the helm
Final four awaits