Construction Haiku

April 17 is National Haiku Poetry Day.

Rebecca Wasieleski

Apr 17, 2012

In honor of National Haiku Poetry Day, I wrote a couple construction-related haiku on my drive into work this morning.

Concrete

A simple mixture:

Cement, water, aggregate.

The world's foundation.

Construction equipment

Big, yellow metal.

Horsepower to move the earth.

Listen for that beep.

Exercise your brain and write your own construction-related haiku. Leave it in the comments section below. The first line is five syllables, the second seven, and the third five.

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