Peggy Noonan Goes To Harvard, The Haiku

Maybe you’ve heard that former Reagan speechwriter, and current Wall St. Journal columnist Peggy Noonan will be teaching class at Harvard this fall. One can only hope (PLEASE) that one of her students will take it upon themselves to Twitter out the best parts as some sort of service to the Internet.

In the meantime! Fans and Twitterers alike have today (actually, I think this may have been the brain child of Ana Marie Cox) created the next best thing: The Peggy Noonan haiku (#noonanhaiku). Behold: (next up MoDo?)

@anamariecox: Oh, Peggy Noonan. Your insightful reveries. How you enlighten.

@doctormidnight: Don’t Ask The Question / Does The Waterboarding Hurt / Kind, Gentle Nation?

@jetjocko: My lede is a joy, / my section two compelling. / Whoops! Off the rails.

@MWM4444: “Beware GOP: / Empty place where hearts should be; / souls are misshapen.”

@lehmannchris: Sadly “gimlet eyed”/applied to English prose/ does not equal “drunk”

@DukeStJournal: autumn in caimbridge / bygone reagan tales. uh-oh. / make mine a double #noonanhaiku

@chrisgeidner: “I these words know well/To me, perfect sense they make/To you, mystery.

A heroic balloon/ floats in the Macy’s Parade/ hearts and minds turned cold.

Related: My image search randomly turned up this pic, which sort of deserves its own haiku if any of you feel up to it.

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