In addition to Tony Moss's latest, I suggest that
the haiku would make an elegant form for sundial
mottoes. Webster's Seventh defines 'haiku' as an
unrhymed Japanese poem of three lines containing
5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively and referring
in some way to one of the seasons of the year.

Example:

I show the sun's paths.
At noon my shadow's longest
When springtime's ended.

Here's one for Mac Oglesby's hours-to-sunset dial
at his airport:

Go. Fly your airplane!
My shadow tells you now, when
Your craft won't have one.

George McDowell





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