The complete selection of glass tower haikus

In the March issue of The Cougar, we asked students to submit haikus about AHS’s beautiful centerpiece, the glass tower. Below is the complete list of our poets’ submissions.

Grand Prize winner

Sparkling monolith
Crystalline dewdrops embrace
A shrine scholastic

-Rees Blanchard

Second Place winner

It’s so popular
Do you think that the tower
Has a date for prom

-Rose Cohen Westbrooke

Third Place winner

A feeble Attempt
At greatness; Just like the work
In AP Bio

-Andrew Sutherland

Honorable Mention

Glass, radiating
Beauty reaching to heaven
Stop hating on it

-Kevin Shea

Winner - Teacher’s Division

Ed: “Why weren’t you grading papers?”

Bug-eyed, complacent
the Glass Tower Architect
spoke, got to mortals.

“What is it?” we asked,
bewildered. “It’s a statement,”
his cryptic reply.

Reverberating,
The words kicked ‘round in our skulls
Senseless as the tow’r.

Someone smashed one block
There the destruction ended
And the tow’r remains.

The only answer—
count it not be possible?—
is Demolition

P’rhaps a huge quake could
take it down. ‘Til then we’re stuck
with our own, home-grown

Out of proportion
Excrescence on the school—
“Ugly.” Redefined

Note: Kamal Ghammache-Monsur’s haiku was awarded the prize for Most Inappropriate Entry and subsequently cannot be published.

Other entries

See-though rocket ship
Ready to blast off to space
Albany’s last trip

-Rose Cohen Westbrooke

Wondering the time
A one-hundred-foot sundial
Count down till 3:10

-Rose Cohen Westbrooke

It filled with hot air
And attached with a basket
A noon balloon ride

-Rose Cohen Westbrooke

When I figure out
What the glass tower is good for
I will let you know

-Rose Cohen Westbrooke

Once upon a town
A glass tower stood so high
Which sored students’ eyes

-Rose Cohen Westbrooke

Someone tell me why
Architects have huge egos
‘Cus that tower sucks

-Rose Cohen Westbrooke

Enough glass tiles
Build your own yellow-brick road
Straight path to Berkeley

-Rose Cohen Westbrooke

Greatness misguided
So large, useless, so strange
Who really built this thing?

-Andrew Sutherland

Misguided money
Built this grand purposelessness
Sometimes, I like it

-Andrew Sutherland

Anna Nicole Smith
So empty, decorative
Just like the tower

-Andrew Sutherland

The campanile
Ain’t got nothing on A-Town’s
Elevator shaft

-Andrew Sutherland

What glass tower?
Zilch, zero, none, nada, less
Useless glass tower

-BK Hubbard

The ominous one
Stands without a purpose
Oppression spreads

-Maurice Catlett

It cannot be seen
Yet it seen be seen by all
It’s glass for some reason

-Maurice Catlett

Seriously, this is
Stupid, a freaking glass tower
That was the best idea?

-Maurice Catlett

Sigh dejectedly
A tower, a tower of glass, why?
Who is in charge here?

-Maurice Catlett

The wind blows past
The sky rains down upon it
Students ask “Why this?”

-Maurice Catlett

Monument of glass
Filled with lost of uselessness
But full of purpose

-Carly Thompson

Tower made of glass
Albany’s crowning glory
Except not really.

-Carly Thompson

Purposeless Tower
Stupid surrounding glass walls
Why do you stand there?

-Carly Thompson

Shining bright like glass
Because it is made of glass
Totally useless

-Emily McKeown

A giant fish tank
Read and white for school spirit
Just saying: glug, glug

-Emily McKeown

Unnecessary
Making our school look stupid
Waste of space, money

-Robb Silverstein

3 Responses

1. 6:49 AM on April 18th, 2007Anonymous:

   go rees!

2. 12:53 PM on April 23rd, 2007Anonymous:

   aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

3. 8:18 AM on May 16th, 2007yea:

   cuz he has a life and didnt submit a million like the other people. ROAST!

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