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Jay's Saturday Morning Haiku - 6

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Home Inspector with Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC 3380-000723

Jay's Saturday morning haiku - 6

The English form of the traditional Japanese Haiku includes any or all of the following:

  • The use of 17 syllables, in the form of three lines, with 5, 7 and 5 syllables respectively.  Some haiku may employ 10 - 14 syllables, but 17 is traditional.
  • The use of a season in the poem.
  • The use of a "cut word" or punctuation to set off and compare two images.

 


We all hang our heads.

 

It is so hard to save face –

 

When it’s in our hands.



 

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Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC  

Based in Bristow, serving all of Northern Virginia.

Office (703) 330-6388   Cell (703) 585-7560

www.jaymarinspect.com


Comments(18)

Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

FYI - this photo was taken with my camera, by Chris Ann Cleland

Nov 25, 2011 07:58 PM
Michael Thornton
RadnorLake Video - Nashville, TN
Nashville Area - Photography & Videography

Good Morning, Jay. Maybe one of these years, the Redskins can save face. It won't be this year tho...

Nov 25, 2011 10:23 PM
Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

Not at all!  And we've been saying that for twenty years Michael.  They don't have a long-term plan.  Without that, every year is just that, a year and if it falls apart there is no fall back.

Nov 25, 2011 11:19 PM
Barbara-Jo Roberts Berberi, MA, PSA, TRC - Greater Clearwater Florida Residential Real Estate Professional
Charles Rutenberg Realty - Clearwater, FL
Palm Harbor, Dunedin, Clearwater, Safety Harbor

Have a wonderful weekend, Jay and keep those haiku poems coming, we all love them!

Nov 26, 2011 12:36 AM
Sally K. & David L. Hanson
EXP Realty 414-525-0563 - Brookfield, WI
WI Real Estate Agents - Luxury - Divorce

Are you getting ready to publish a book.....?

Nov 26, 2011 01:12 AM
Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

Glad you do Barbara-Jo.  I wrote another just this morning, on the roach issue!

S&D - had not considered it!  But maybe, if I get enough of these racked up!

Nov 26, 2011 01:18 AM
Randi Brammer
Randi Brammer, Acctg. - Hinckley, MN
Accountant & Tax Preparer

The quote makes a lot of sense.  Something to think long and haard about.

Nov 26, 2011 02:17 AM
Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

Randi - we Redskin fans are all so proud this year!

Nov 26, 2011 02:21 AM
Patricia Kennedy
RLAH@properties - Washington, DC
Home in the Capital

Ah, Jay!  You nailed it with this one!  They're playing like nuns this year.

Nov 26, 2011 05:43 AM
Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

I know Pat.  Sure, there have been many injuries to key players, but a team is just that, people in the background able to come in at a moment's notice.

My brother made that jacket for me.  Like it?

Nov 26, 2011 06:28 AM
Randy Ostrander
Lake and Lodge Realty LLC - Big Rapids, MI
Real Estate Broker, Serving Big Rapids and West Central MI

Good evening Jay. You are getting pretty good at the Haiku stuff. Now about the Redskins....Yikes! Being from Michigan we are always on the lookout for teams worse than the Lions and this year there are a few.

Nov 26, 2011 01:03 PM
Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

Randy - our problems started with the "new" owner and have continued ever since.  Detroit has turned it around this year, but they are they not-so-popular bad boys of the league.  That's too bad too.

Nov 26, 2011 09:14 PM
Patricia Kennedy
RLAH@properties - Washington, DC
Home in the Capital

Hey, Jay!  I included this post in Last Week's Favorites.  Have a great Sunday!

Nov 27, 2011 04:06 AM
Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

Thanks Pat!  That's a great jacket, isn't it?

Nov 27, 2011 04:21 AM
Cindy Jones
Integrity Real Estate Group - Woodbridge, VA
Pentagon, Fort Belvoir & Quantico Real Estate News

If you look up the definition of self-destruct in the dictionary they just have a picture of the Redskins.  Geez I used to be a diehard fan...now I just hope they don't embarrass themselves.

Nov 27, 2011 09:35 AM
Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

There is a picture of my jacket Cindy.  But I am STILL a diehard fan.

Nov 27, 2011 11:29 AM
Steven Cook
No Longer Processing Mortgages. - Tacoma, WA

Jay -- that is a great jacket that your brother made for you.  Too bad it and the Haiku couldn't be more positive (but know how you feel with the Seahawks in our area.)

Nov 28, 2011 07:20 AM
Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

Steven - I didn't see this until today (12/4) and now it's a week after the Skins visited out there!

Dec 03, 2011 08:20 PM