Pointless Prize: Haiku Contest

[epilsk]

Winter riding often prompts terse thoughts about riding in the cold, wet, and wind. And because misery loves company (why else are we here?), I thought we could share our pithy thoughts in the form of a Haiku contest on the theme of Riding a Bike in Winter. Celebrate the misery, joy, fun, silliness, or whatever moves you about riding in the winter in the form of a Haiku — a three line poem of seventeen syllables written in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables each — to be posted in this thread. The deadline for submissions is March 15 with the winner to be announced by the end of BAFS. I, perhaps with the help of a select committee, will judge the winner based on wholly subjective criteria, including coffee snorts and artistic awe, and will award a prize of suitable beauty.

Here is my Haiku that got me thinking about this contest:

Spinning faster still
Hoping to staunch the stream
Flowing down my nose

I know you can do better!

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[Steve O]

@epilsk 153135 wrote:

Winter riding often prompts terse thoughts about riding in the cold, wet, and wind. And because misery loves company (why else are we here?), I thought we could share our pithy thoughts in the form of a Haiku contest on the theme of Riding a Bike in Winter.

I know you can do better!

If you follow Komorebi on Strava, she frequently names her rides with haiku. She has a fan club.

[dkel]

@Steve O 153136 wrote:

If you follow Komorebi on Strava, she frequently names her rides with haiku. She has a fan club.

Steve O and I are good with limericks, but I don’t think anyone cares. :p

[komorebi]

@dkel 153138 wrote:

Steve O and I are good with limericks, but I don’t think anyone cares. :p

Not true. The epic limerick battle that you and Steve O had last year inspired me to intersperse limericks among my haiku ride titles this year. In other words, there’s now some really bad poetry on Strava and it’s half your fault.

[Sunyata]

Every once in a while, I change up my rhyming scheme to incorporate a haiku.

Often they still rhyme.
I’m a terrible poet.
But I’ve Strava game.

:rolleyes:

[NemaVeze]

A foggy morning,
gentle rains begin to fall.
Hope I packed spare socks.

[Steve O]

@komorebi 153158 wrote:

Not true. The epic limerick battle that you and Steve O had last year inspired me to intersperse limericks among my haiku ride titles this year. In other words, there’s now some really bad poetry on Strava and it’s half your fault.

I thought that our lim’rick battle
Was thought of as nothing but prattle
But dkel and Steve O
Received a big kudo
From a fan on a cold, freezing saddle!

[NemaVeze]

As he sits around surfing the web, he
eats snack cakes made by Little Debbie
to give fuel to his brain
’cause it’s bringing him pain
to think nothing rhymes with Komorebi

[Author]

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