06.14.2007 5:33 pm
Haiku Day returns! Comment on current events — in verse
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
It’s been awhile since we’ve tested your poetry chops. In fact, we haven’t done it since December. Do you miss it?
We’ve had plenty of things to wax poetic about.
Aren’t you just dying to write something about the orange paint on the highway? Or the St. Louis School Board? How about the flooding Missouri River a few weeks ago? Or the merger of Wachovia and A.G. Edwards? How about the work that’s ramping up on Highway 40?
Yes, there’s been plenty of news in Our Town in the past few months.
You know how this works: Match your current events comments to the meter of haiku — three lines, five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables.
Kurt is the director of social media for the Post-Dispatch, where he has worked since August 2002. He's been a journalist since 1982, covering municipal government, courts, education and two hurricanes as a reporter before becoming an editor. 
Orange specks blue car
Welcomed for U of I fan
Let’s go Illini!
Where you vacation
The aspens are now turning
Go to jail, Scooter
Space station problems
Beg one important question:
NASA runs Windows?
Greedy judge files suit
For much cash over lost pants
You can’t fix stupid
Cavaliers and Spurs
Play entertaining series
But no one watches
Punishment proves hard
For vapid hotel heiress
Schadenfreude rocks
Some choose to herald
Our awesome economy
While many lose homes
All childs left behind
Accreditation is lost
The state rushes in
LaRussa’s mullet
Tyler Johnson’s new dye job
which is scarier?
Forest Park Lagoon
Sun myself at the Boathouse
Pass the chips Fido
Arch casts its shadow
Old Man River rolls along
A Big ugly hole
Soulard summertime
nowhere to rest my big bum
Buy some benches please
Great economy
yet people still losing homes
you can’t fix stupid
Do you need money
don’t as the government for it
get your butt to work
Big shots own the farm
I do most of the planting
My table lacks food
Who is this Ron Paul?
His signs blowing in the wind
A dog who can hunt!
Even slow news days
can provide entertainment
There’s always Paris
Memo to School Board:
Give Up And Swallow Your Pride!
Vacate! And Butt Out!
On the TB flights:
Man risks other’s lives,
To raise his odds of living.
Typical lawyer.