Wednesday, December 2, 2009
"To commemorate the appointment of Belgium's Haiku-writing Prime Minister, Herman Van Rompuy, as President of the Council, we offer our own humble suggestions for Haiku poems about him. Haiku, as you know, comprises three non-rhyming lines made up of five, seven and five syllables respectively. Ours were composed by 'Cadmus', who, as experts of Greek mythology will recall, was the brother of Europa, sent to rescue her from abduction and rape at the hands of a god. He failed."
