Cycling Haiku (sort of)

[Zen]

Good grief, now new wheels
Cyclometer too - what else?
I just got this bike!

[mimitabby]

we'd like to see it
pictures?
tell us

[Kano]

Gotta fix it a little bit Mimi!

we'd like to see it
pictures? oh pleezy weezy?
tell us tell us more!

(there, now we've got the structure correct!)

Karen in Boise

[mimitabby]

Gotta fix it a little bit Mimi!

we'd like to see it
pictures? oh pleezy weezy?
tell us tell us more!

(there, now we've got the structure correct!)

Karen in Boise

:p I never did a Haiku
there's a structure really?
I'm learning slowly slowly

[maillotpois]

5
7
5

[Wahine]

For another example:

Rode my bike today
Cannot understand this wind
My quads are aflame

[mimitabby]

For another example:

Rode my bike today
Cannot understand this wind
My quads are aflame

You live at the gorge
they say the wind dances there
your quads are growing

[maillotpois]

These were composed on my 400k:

#1

This headwind is strong
I hope it's still there when I
reach the turn-around

#2

Get on the wheel now
I've drafted you for a half
mile. I'm willing to pull

And my signature line was composed by my riding partner in anticipation of my doing the Devil Mountain Double century a couple weeks ago.

[Wahine]

You live at the gorge
they say the wind dances there
your quads are growing

LOL!!!!

This is why, I think
My trousers constrict my thighs
Perhaps I should golf?

[mimitabby]

LOL!!!!

This is why, I think
My trousers constrict my thighs
Perhaps I should golf?

Golfing at the gorge
that would be like bird watching
wind takes ball and flies

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

just passed mile forty
girly bits are telling me
let's stop for ice cream

[li10up]

Cycling, oh what joy
How I want to buy more toys
It's in my blood now

[mimitabby]

When on bike I fly
in my mind I fall to earth
Legs work well I'm safe

[colby]

beautiful bike ride
we fly the trails like birds
soaring in the sun

the wind rushes by
trees aren't very aero
but neither am i

:)

[SouthernBelle]

Looking at my hands
Now have a glove tan
Real avid cyclist

[trekin']

pedal pedal up :(
my thighs are screaming their pain :eek:
love that granny ring :p

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

http://www.bikereader.com/contributors/etc/haiku/BRhaiku.html

[mimitabby]

wow!
thanks Lisa, these are fun

[Zen]

pulling up the hill
Delauter's Store is in sight
I deserve ice cream

[Kano]

When on bike I fly
in my mind I fall to earth
Legs work well I'm safe




BY GEORGE! I THINK SHE'S GOT IT!

Climbing up, must stop
legs okay, breathing alright
must be mind blew up!

Karen in Boise

[Kitsune06]

Hear the crisp click of
brass cleats in steel eggbeaters
round and round and round...

The wind is blowing
get down in the drops and pull
use your very core.

Gravel under tires
hear pebbles' sharp staccato
and sandy white noise.

I ride to be one
with the wind blowing through me
and the rain's kisses.

We fight against the
wind itself, but how to live
without the in/out?

Lungs pull it in, deep
and I am renewed by it
in spite of itself.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

rise from my saddle
steel frame flexing under me
skipping up the hills

[Wahine]

Nice compositions everyone.
Lisa and Kit, Wow!

Mine is not nearly so artsy, but here it is...

The Ironman Haiku

I swim two point four
Then ride one hundred and twelve
End with marathon

[KnottedYet]

My sweetheart rides hard
For our stricken "family."
Deadline nears. Donate!


(subtle, eh? :D )

[LBTC]

wish to ride my bike
survive through TE TD
hope to ride again

[run it, ride it]

tree-filtered sunlight
obscures dark dirt rut ahead;
SNAP! Compound fracture

[RoadRaven]

I have never been a fan of haiku, because I always wanted a little more than 17 syllables can usually deliver.

However, I am well impressed by this thread... some great images here.

...and Kit, your "linked series" is just fantastic.

Thank you ladies... when I am not so tired I'd like to contribute something too... but in the meantime I just had to say thank you

[Wahine]

PING. What was that noise?
Wheel rub. Resistance. Why?
Broken spoke. D@mm!t.:mad: :mad: :mad:

[northstar]

From last week's events...

Shoo, thief, from my bike
Put your bolt cutter away.
Oh well, there it goes.

:(

[Jenn]

tree-filtered sunlight
obscures dark dirt rut ahead;
SNAP! Compound fracture

Slight breeze sunny day
Tailwind am one with the wind and my bike
SLAM into the ground, get up for another day!

[Kitsune06]

Thanks! I really like writing... one of my first loves- I always come up with things while riding, but b/c I have a goldfish's memory... well... they're short-lived. :p Here's another one... just b/c. :D Ri/Ri I love yours. A compound fx'd clavicle? Yow! D*mn!

Close your eyes and feel
the road beneath you for now
the texture of it

black asphalt whispers soft
and packed dirt trails crackle
with dry leaves and twigs

To ride is to be
open to the sensation
of the world around.

Taste the morning air
the cool touch of eve'ning air
the scent of farm fields

We don't commute, we
make a journey, twice a day
A little venture.

In our own zen way
we do it just to do it
for the joy of it.

[LBTC]

Thank you, Kit

I am now resolved to bike to work. Soon, very soon

H&B
~T~

[KnottedYet]

my bike holds laundry
ignominious duty
drying rack must ROLL!

[Flybye]

I can take no more
of crappy cold freaking wind
winter go away.




Today is TREK420's BIRTHDAY!!!!!

me thinks I read this a bit too hastily - I read today is Trek's 420 Birthday - move over Methuesela!

Happy 420th, Trek!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

cold stinging my hands
my nose runs like a faucet
Ah! Spring biking joy!

[mupedalpusher]

Spring Break cold cold rain
Will this winter ever stop
My bike needs sunlight

[latelatebloomer]

no time for posting
just lurking with enjoyment
thanks to your haiku

[crazycanuck]

Boosh..Go the drums
roger taylor keep my heart pumping
made it uphill

errmm..:o

[lph]

We don't commute, we
make a journey, twice a day
A little venture.


Oh I like this one!

[Starfish]

Mind spinning too fast
Ten percent, eleven, twelve
Grades: mental white out

[DirtDiva]

Oh, you like this one?
But where are your other twelve
syllables of joy?

;)

[RoadRaven]

BUMP

I like this thread so...
but feeling uncreative.
Someone write for me

:p

[Bad JuJu]

See this thread, started by BleeckerSt_Girl:
http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=22843

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Pulled muscle throbbing
new bike taunts, gathering dust
bright Spring, don't mock me!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Bike down into town
my reward a hot croissant
Alas!- home uphill

[emily_in_nc]

Bike down into town
my reward a hot croissant
Alas!- home uphill

Love it! :D