Detroit Haiku [[contest)

[MizMotown]

Who can write a Haiku best describing Detroit?

Winner gets kudos!!

"Haiku" is a traditional form of Japanese poetry. Haiku poems consist of 3 lines. The first and last lines of a Haiku have 5 syllables and the middle line has 7 syllables. The lines rarely rhyme.

Here's a Haiku to help you remember:

I am first with five
Then seven in the middle --
Five again to end.

[kryptonite]

We are Ville de Troit
We are not trendy city
We are tough and cool

[townonenorth]

Detroit is a place
For those that know the real score
To get their urban vibe.

[[cool, daddyo?)

[GoGrixdale]

hear me from Detroit
fat ladies must stay silent
it aint over yet

[MizMotown]

For all that has been
Detroit city memories
A toast to past gone

[HazenPingree]

we hope for better
we will rise from the ashes
this is why we fight

[Detroitnerd]

You can take money.
You can remove the people.
You can't kill a place.

[rb336]

Troubled old city
promise everywhere and nowhere
future uncertain

[antongast]

Dave Bing is an ass.
He cut all my services.
Damn this place to hell.

[riviera]

Prepare it did not

Snow covered utopia

When you need to walk

[Pam]

Nice job everyone. I think this one is my favorite so far.

hear me from Detroit
fat ladies must stay silent
it aint over yet

[Wheels]

Detroit the Motor City
Down not out or forgotten
Soon to rise stay tuned

[rb336]

c'mon, get your creative juices going! I thought there would be more than this!

[Bobl]

The late, great, Jim Gufstanson wrote:

Detroit
Where lovers buy matching guns...

I apologize to Jim if I didn't get it just right. It was a long time ago!

[antongast]

I can't sleep tonight.
Outside, banging techno beats.
Party on, Detroit.

Pheasants live next door
In an unmowed city park.
Alley full of trash.

This place wears me down.
Leaving wouldn't change that, though.
What the hell, I'm here.

[Bobl]

antongast: Good one!

[KJ5]

this town is fucked up
on warm beer and stepped on coke
real and metaphor