Your Hometown in Haiku

[Owain Taggart]

A big nickel,
Slag poured red hot
Not much city.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Bethlehem, PA?

 

[Spot's Meow]

Golden railroad days
Now, political nightmare
The city of trees.

 

[thestrangequark]

Oswego, NY
Lake effect snow storms.
Crazy with cabin fever.
Pray for early spring.​

Mine's a riddle too, though, admittedly, not very difficult.

Wheedle in the sky,
Basking in the pouring rain.
May this be love? Nah.

Um, your "riddle" isn't difficult because your "location" says Brooklyn.

I've lived in NYC for 10 years, but it's not my hometown. The riddle is about my hometown, and has nothing to do with Brooklyn.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Seattle?

(wheedle = needle; pouring rain = obvious )

 

[Roger Wilco]

Nice place to live in
Unfortunately full of
Bastards and tourists

 

[scotpens]

Earthquakes, surf and smog
Everybody’s in show biz
Let's do lunch sometime.

 

[SmoothieX]

Ass full of pork fat
jiggles like a jello-mold
mouth is flapping too

What the hell town is this?

Isn't that from South Park?

WINNER!

 

[thestrangequark]

^ Seattle?

(wheedle = needle; pouring rain = obvious )

And a Jimmi Hendrix song!

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Here's one for a place close to my soul. I don't have a real "hometown"--didn't grow up in one place, but this one place really "spoke" to me for a haiku.

Shots flew April fourth
Set neighbor against neighbor
Hope--rain--blues in May

For a place that tries its damnedest to be unlovable sometimes...there's still something special there that just won't let go. Lots of complex feelings here.

 

[Vulcan Princess]

San Jose?

Bingo!

 

[NickInABox]

Oh, Mississauga
Mayor Hazel will not leave
God bless the old girl.

 

[M'Sharak]

And a Jimi Hendrix song!

I didn't even think of that.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

(another Omaha one)

Reuben sandwiches
Also the TV dinner
All invented here.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

The thing with moving
Around so much is that you
Can't just pick one home.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

LOL, I could've written that one!

 

[KimMH]

Here's one for a place close to my soul. I don't have a real "hometown"--didn't grow up in one place, but this one place really "spoke" to me for a haiku.

Shots flew April fourth
Set neighbor against neighbor
Hope--rain--blues in May

For a place that tries its damnedest to be unlovable sometimes...there's still something special there that just won't let go. Lots of complex feelings here.

Memphis?

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Yep...I chose Memphis.

 

[Winged Victory]

Minnehaha Falls
Song of Hiawatha true
Sky-tinted waters

 

[Mary Ann]

Oh, Mississauga
Mayor Hazel will not leave
God bless the old girl.

Bloody hell, is Hazel still there? She'd been going for years when I moved from Etobicoke in 1995. The woman's immortal.

As to my hometown...

A busy island
In a large, flowing river
Parlez vous Francais?