10.09.2008 5:46 pm
Haiku Friday: It’s time for your presidential poetry
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
I’m sorry, but the news has been too grim this week. We have had local crimes and national scandals, the Dow keeps setting new records for how low and how fast it can drop. So, frankly, I’m not in the mood on this late Thursday and Friday to stomach a serious Talk of the Day.
So, my friends, if I can’t count on you to chip in here, I’m going to be very, very disappointed!
We haven’t had a Haiku Friday for months. Let’s do it now.
The topic: The presidential campaign.
Remember the rules: Nothing dirty, and stick to the five-seven-five syllable meter.
Here’s my entry.
To some, a hero
Palin’s presence; but some say
Their campaign is fey
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. 
Right wing hate rising.
No rumor to vile to spread.
Country Last, Polls first.
Glenn Beck’s Shrink: Great entry. Very poetic. Almost a Lawrence Ferlinghetti approach!
Last post by Ryan
nowhere near being haiku
stick to the subject
Lucid intervals
Directed me to correct
my kind compliments
To answer the loon
I remember the challenge
It must go like this:
Poetic the “shrink”!
Ferlinghetti would covet
Vers libre faber!
Barrack Obama
Hangs out with terrorist friends
Kennedy’s puppet
Stock market slides down.
Republicans seen weeping –
Buy no election.
Prisoner of war
Roves on the maverick field.
Wasilla cheerleader–
Artic sun goes down
The dark winter snows begin–
Sedona sunset.
Bush-based Hooverville.
“All we have to fear is fear–”
Out of darkness — light.
Multicolored leaves
coat the Potomac shoreline.
Chads hang on the trees.
Blogs wax poetic
Even slander sounds so fine
haiku fridays cleanse
stuck between Barack
and a hard place (G.O.P.)
election day blues.
To John McCain:
Let not thy will roar,
Thy power is a whisper
and heard nevermore.