As some may know a Haiku is a Japanese poem. Haiku use 3 lines, the first with 5 syllables, the second with 7 syllables, and the third with 5 as well.

There is no prize other than enjoyment, but your Haiku must be about racing. Your inspiration could be anything from starting grid jitters, to pit-lane mishaps. Tone could be comical or down right depressing.

Submissions need not be in english, but a translation into english should be provided for the international community


I'll kick it off with an example:

Petrol like perfume
Dueling screams from the Engines
Driver's heart flutters


I know, it's corny but it's an example.

My effort, I had to study haikus in college as part of my coursework for English

Sitting in there
Car revving highly, engine screams
Put into first, go!

DK

Quote from DieKolkrabe :

My effort, I had to study haikus in college as part of my coursework for English

Sitting in there
Car revving highly, engine screams
Put into first, go!

DK

good on you for having a go,

but is that not the wrong amount of sylables (bad spelling i know) in the first 2 lines - ie 4 and 8?

Red, red, green, race starts
The first corner is carnage
Hankstar votes to ban


FYI DK: 5,7,5 is the syllable count

From the first post, the syllables go 5-7-5, 1st line has 5, 2nd line has 7, 3rd line has 5

If I counted them wrong, my bad

Dk

Nope, yours is definitely 4,8,5

Erf, Rewrite coming soon(ish)

Haiku is tricky
I don't have seven fingers
How do they do it?

MY dodgy attempt.....

The Start

When will it go green
I am so nervous as hell
C'mon get it on

This is fun, here's my first ever haiku:


concentrate focus
know time is irrelevant
use all for the win

Col

here's another


become the machine
feel the edge of the circle
master your desire


Col

and one for fun


you buy live for speed
blame Scawen, Vic and Eric
you now have no life

Quote from Dru :

When will it go green
I am so nervous as hell
C'mon get it on

lol, fantastic

col - slow down buddy



col is writing lots
most of them are fairly good
many will still come

another


how can this be so ?
with just a stream of numbers
we are racing now !


Col

I'm on your inside
Will you let me pass you there
i hope and i pray......

not on your nelly
you don't have fair overlap
corner rights are mine

if that is the case
i'll get you on the next bend
you will eat my dust

just moved this to off topic... its not "Really" LFS Related now is it .

My extremely poor Attempt Though

I'm Leaving the Pits
Oops, I have gone the Wrong Way,
SMASH,oh my god.. NOOB!

I'll make you brake late
and pull a switch back on you
unlucky sucker

this will end in tears
neither one of us will yield
............................a long walk back home

don't worry buddy
this server has reset on
we love arcade mode

Oh my ****ing god
Missed the green light again s**t
patch x is the bitch


http://www.tempslibres.org/tl/en/theo/mode04.html interesting reading on Haiku

For those who are having problems, here is a syllable counter

mad

coffee: check, wheel: check
instant messenger off: check
time to rock'n'roll!

I'm right at the back
how many are afk
this is gonna hurt