Haïkuleaks: Diplomatic cables as poetry

Therefore, he added,
we must prepare carefully,
out of the spotlight.

— U.S. diplomatic cable Haiku via Haïkuleaks

We’ll be studying poetry soon, and Wikileaks is in the news. I therefore post the mind-expanding website, Haïkuleaks, which condenses diplomatic cables into seventeen syllables and three lines each.

The site uses Haiku Finder to scan through the cables for inadvertent Haikus.

‘People need to see
the results of decisions,’
the Sultan stated.

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