The Haiku Challenge: Transportation-Inspired Poetry

If you attended the Cherry Blossom Festival in Japantown earlier this month, you may have seen us there. While talking shop we also wanted to have a little fun since the month of April is National Poetry Month.

For nearly a decade the defunct Muni Haiku Project was an online forum where Muni customers could post their creative thoughts about using public transit in the city.

Using this Japanese style of poetry that consists of 17 syllables in three phrases (following the 5, 7, 5 syllable format) Muni customers would post their haikus - calling out the good, the bad, and the only-on-Muni tales.

Wondering what today's Muni customers would say, we laid down the haiku gauntlet and challenged Cherry Blossom attendees to find their inner poet and see if they could write a transportation-inspired haiku. Here are some of our favorites.