Dear readers, it is time for you to contribute. Once a peruser now a writer: today you do the work. Please submit a Runner’s Haiku in the comment section (for the shy among you, post anonymously). If high school English was longer ago than you care to admit, just remember to keep it simple and follow the basic 5 syllable – 7 syllable – 5 syllable non-rhyming form. Purists (of which I am obviously not) go ahead and write a traditional haiku. As I would never ask you to do something that I myself will not do, this is my non-traditional haiku-inspired tribute to running. And now you know why I did not major in English.
Ask legs to go fast
Circling a neglected track
To end back at start
Title Reference: Johnny Tillotson – Poetry in Motion. Record single. 1960.
Gently falling rain
Keeping my route fresh and clean
Ideal for P B
sweat in my eyes stings
making the pain in my legs
somewhat bearable
caring not for time
I run because I like to
even when I do not
I don’t like to run
My chest bounces too much (ouch)
I’ll just stand and watch
Check drinks, bars, beans, gu
tell me whatever happened
to just needing shoes
Shoes pound the pavement
Empty thoughts around my head
Do I have ice cream?
burning throbbing legs
brain questioning sanity
euphoric i beam
Wisdom is revealed
slowly, one post at a time
in My Running Shorts
This is why I run:
To test myself, to push through
And discover me.
Six-o-clock time to get up
Today is Race Day
Are you ready… get set.. GO!
Training is hard work
Tempo, LSD,track, hills
Here I come Boston!
The Boston qualifier
Where people suffer
To earn the right
To suffer some more