Transportation Haikus

[hbelkins]

There are some steel plates
On Cary Street in Richmond.
Lowered cars beware!

Over in Short Pump
North Gayton Road extension
Still isn't open.

How many of those
Will we see at the road meet?
Only two more weeks!

[1995hoo]

Found on roads on Mexico.

Proofreading poems:
pretty good idea, but
not always employed.

Well, being really
Technical, the roads are "on"
Mexican soil. 

[Takumi]

How many of those
Will we see at the road meet?
Only two more weeks!

I can add them in,
But that may mean fewer stops
And more "drive by" sites.

[hbelkins]

It does not matter
To me, I was just looking
To write a haiku.

[vtk]

I-69C
What the heck are they smoking?
AASHTO jumps the shark.

[kphoger]

on my way to work
sometimes my mind shuts off but
then i saw a van

different company
from vtk as in post
seventy seven

sorted the muses
not sure but then it hit me
i 69 c

or maybe even
i 69 w
would be better still

used the search feature
prepared to exhume the dead
from its four year rest

checked the most recent
and i thought to myself crap
they beat me to it

dug through the muse trash
should i go with that doggone
highway forty one

but no that won't do
that horse has been beat to death
too cliché by now

an unburial
demands something a bit more
controversy prone

then the angels sang
and my eyes hurt from the blaze
of epiphany

we have yet to write
a haiku about that damned
hypotenuse

so give it your best
just remember to keep it
five seven and five

rough draft and revise
make it the absolute best
that dz deserves

if you win we'll name
an oklahoma turnpike
in honor of you

[1995hoo]

Since this thread was bumped,
I guess someone should compose
Haikus about Marf.

[kphoger]

marf two-oh-seven
went shopping for food one day
with pat the splasher
?

[formulanone]

marf two-oh-seven
went shopping for food one day
with pat the splasher
?

Knowing everything
Ah, to be fifteen again
No, that really sucked.

[hbelkins]

Alanland is gone
We do and do not miss it
All the goats vanished

[kphoger]

hypotenuse

OK, fine, I'll start.



nighttime aerial
of the sodium cobweb
that is chicago

[webny99]

marf two-oh-seven
went shopping for food one day
with pat the splasher
?

Linda of Green Gables must be incorporated somehow 

[kphoger]

Linda of Green Gables must be incorporated somehow

↑  is not a haiku.  Try again.

[webny99]

Linda of Green Gables must be incorporated somehow

↑  is not a haiku.  Try again.

That was a command.
I do not know how haikus work.
Enough said for now.

(Success? Failure?)

[kphoger]

That was a command.
I do not don't know how haikus work.
Enough said for now.

(Success? Failure?)

We pretty much just go by the 5-7-5 rule on here.  There's more to poetry than that, but it's good enough for us.

[kphoger]

linda is a ghost
green gables was never here
as proved by a search

[21stCenturyRoad]

Marf then saw Linda
And went to lick her fanny 
It did not end well

[roadman]

marf two-oh-seven
went shopping for food one day
with pat the splasher
?

Linda of Green Gables must be incorporated somehow 

Linda
Of Green Gables?
How about Lisa
From Green Acres.

[kphoger]

spui, dee dee eye,
parclo, riro, aashto, god!
we sound moronic...

[1995hoo]

That was a command.
I do not know how haikus work.
Enough said for now.

(Success? Failure?)

[US 89]

we have yet to write
a haiku about that damned
hypotenuse

Hypotenuse is only 4 syllables.

The story is sad
California US Routes
Very few are left

[hbelkins]

Tim Brown said it bips
In reality it pibs
What's the difference?

Roadgeekteen can't spell
He does not seem to care
Grammar nerds go nuts

Enter a county
Turn around and go back out
You didn't "froggie" it

Will we ever quit
Discussing Breezewood P-A
It's highly doubtful

[adventurernumber1]

I-238
What a joke of interstate
Where's I-38?

[webny99]

Roadgeekteen can't spell
He does not seem to care
Grammar nerds go nuts

Some users are worse
I wont mention any names
Both make me crazy

I-238
What a joke of interstate
Where's I-38?

[Brandon]

Marf then saw Linda
And went to lick her fanny 
It did not end well

If you're a Limey
Then that came out all crazy
Fanny different