November 24th, 2009
Herman Van Rompuy, prime minister of Belgium and the European Union’s new president, is fond of writing haiku and is building a reputation with Japanese poets. “We feel very proud that the first EU president ever elected loves haiku,” Kaoru Fujimoto, an official of the Haiku International Association in Tokyo. Here’s a Rompuy haiku:
Hair blows in the wind
After years there is still wind
Sadly no more hair.
To read more, in Dutch, visit his poetry website.
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