Robert Behre is one of the most talented and well-rounded men you’ll meet in Charleston. He writes the P&C’s always-illuminating Monday column on architecture and preservation and covers practically everything else as a reporter.

But his hidden talent? Robert is the staff’s undisputed master of light verse and sly wit, and he has been for years.

His latest offerings:

It’s hard to make Spo
Ku about the Memminger
Auditorium

It’s also hard to
make a Spoku about the
Carolina Choc—

Water bottles are
no longer the greenest choice.
Correctly, I thirst.

Get off the damn floor,
Child for whom I just purchased
Expensive ticket

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We’ve received another set of Spo-kus (that’s Spoleto hiaku to all you new kids) from reader Cecil Wilson. These always help us get in the mood…

Champagne was flowing
in the elegant garden
but the cast was shy.

More after the jump…

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Tags: reader verse, Spo-ku, Spoleto

Each year we invite our readers to write specific forms of Spoleto-related verse and let us share them with the world. Well, we’re off and running for 2008. First, Cecil Wilson writes a Spoku:

The Spoletians are
here in full force and we cant
find a parking place.

… and then Joy Munoz chips in with some Splimericks…

The Festival of Two Worlds, is the name.
To Charleston, Maestro GianCarlo came.
He sought out our beauty,
And we’ve made it our duty
To never relinquish this fame.

…more after the jump…

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