More Instant Haiku from Echo Park's National Night Out

The challenge was to write a haiku--a Japanese form of compact verse structured as five syllables, followed by seven syllables, and concluding with another five.

Some took the task literally. Others improvised. Some examples follow.

Tania Urbina, a high school student from Echo Park, wrote this:

As time goes by, we forget what's good in life and

We spend our time lost

Angel Mireles, a sixth grader at Betty Plascencia Elementary School, penned this as his brothers looked on:

The sky's clear and

the trees are green

and people are friendly

Ducks fly up in the sky and give you joy in the daytime.

Conrado Terrazas, Communications Director for Assembly member Gilbert Cedillo, shared this:

Lotus, reds, hills and stairs

And, finally, Louis Esparza, a professor a Cal State LA in Sociology who just moved to Echo Park, wrote this.

Echo Park is great

Why would I go anywhere

Else. Block parties rule.

Check out everyone's picture in the accompanying gallery. And thanks to all who stopped by and gave our haiku-writing a try.