Haiku is a mode of Japanese poetry. The traditional haiku consisted of a pattern of approximately 5, 7, 5 sounds. The distillation of thought into the haiku forces the writer to reach the essence of the thought. After meditating on our upcoming Arctic Circle adventure road trip, I came up with these: 
Road trip adventure.
arctic circle northern lights,
road and sky unite.
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and road trip.
Which will occur next.
You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
The spirit the road.
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and drive north.
Order shall return.
Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The easy road is closed.
Claudia Radmore, contributed this version to our haiku set:
road trip
northern lights
road and sky unite
What haiku do you have that captures diversity or the road. Leave us your best haiku.
1 response so far ↓
1 claudia radmore // Dec 10, 2007 at 1:01 am
This would be a better haiku as follows. Haiku need not be 17 syllables. Thst originaly meant 17 japanese ’syllables’. Your image is beautiful. In this version everything is there.
Better:
road trip
northern lights
road and sky unite
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