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A few months ago, just for fun, I posted a bicycle haiku<\/a><\/b> that I had written on the Bicycle Alliance’s Facebook page<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

With tailwind and smile<\/em>
I roll through many landscapes.<\/em>
My bike sets me free!\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then I invited our Facebook friends to share their own bicycle haiku, and they did!\u00a0 Here are a couple of them:<\/p>\n

Fresh smooth roadway calls<\/em>
Tires gliding soundlessly<\/em>
Speed and balance sweet.<\/em>
– Anthony Medina\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

li’l stardust rider<\/em>
swaying with each pedal stroke<\/em>
six-year-old freedom.<\/em>
– Claire Petersky<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I quickly discovered that bicycle haiku, or baiku as it is sometimes called, is a popular subset of this poetry form and there are websites dedicated to it.\u00a0 For instance, there is the Baiku<\/a><\/strong> blog written by a cyclist and poet in Portland.\u00a0 A website called Bike Reader<\/a><\/strong> has a page dedicated to bicycle haiku and contains over a hundred bicycle haiku submissions.<\/p>\n

Now, dear cyclist, it’s your turn to spin your creative wheels as I\u00a0invite you to submit your own bicycle haiku.\u00a0 Please follow the standard haiku form of three lines–5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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