Posted by Just a Citizen, a resident of the Evergreen Park neighborhood, on Sep 9, 2006 at 7:06 pm

gee, they didn't format! - darn!

OK, I'll separate each one with a dotted line

Here is some formal haiku, with a local flavor - surely others can do better than I! Try your hand!

(requirements:

first line, 5 syllables)

(second line, 7 syllables)

(third line, 5 syllables)

Big box retailer

Everyone has one of them

Not Palo Alto

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City Council meets

People smile and talk

Decisions are slow

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City Manager:

"Explain yourself" they tell him

He does; they approve

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Old Police building

Forty million, maybe more

How safe can we be?

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Housing shortages

Property is expensive

Move to Mountain View

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Unanimous vote

Every Palo Altan's dream

It doesn't happen

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University...

Restaurants are everywhere

Big Box retailer?

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Library needs books

There isn't any money

Bond or parcel tax?

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Stanford Mall, upscale

No place to get food for kids

Bring my own apple

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Palo Alto news

Seen in Weekly and Daily

But where is the truth?

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Fiber to the Home

Will it ever happen here?

Wireless is good, too.

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Posted by Haiku too, a resident of the Palo Verde neighborhood, on Sep 15, 2006 at 11:11 pm

"Rrrun" in Bowden Park

A car sprouts from chubby legs

I think it looks weird.

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Retail or housing?

Developers fight neighbors.

We can't have it all.

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Unhoused now have homes.

Opportunity Center -

a feel good story.

Posted by dramagal, a resident of the Evergreen Park neighborhood, on Oct 2, 2006 at 12:05 am

kites fly in Peers Park

Grass is finally green now

Dog people happy too

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time was butterflies

cocooned in milkweed fields back

of my Midtown fence

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PA schools rated tops

Still, some choose a private school--

How special are we?

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Fields of grown wheat made

great playgrounds for burrowing--

now developed, gone

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once was a tree house

high on Stanford hill where we

wrote poems for fun

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Gunn high school has its

number 40 coming up--

My class! Fun! Woo-hoo!