Sometimes we take bikes and the sport of cycling (and ourselves) just a little too serious.  Thankfully there is a counter balance out there — worldly wisdom and contemporary humor intersect at the Bicycle Haiku website:

why write bike haiku?
perhaps your bike got stolen
at poetry class?

And just in case you forgot the simple rules of creating a Haiku …

“A haiku is a non-rhymed verse genre, conveying an image or feeling in two parts spread over three lines, usually with a seasonal [or in this case a bicycle] reference. There are 5 syllables in the first sentence, 7 in the second and 5 again in the last sentence.”

For example:

stupid bus driver!
now too much adrenaline
read haiku, now calm

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I spin cranks smoothly
wheels roll forward straight and true
burrito after

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green raleigh, four speed
just ripe for restoration
dynohub. superbe.

Read more of these gems at Bicycle Haiku →

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