You claim I'm extinct
yet the forest where I live
looms large in your dreams.

Perhaps extinction
fills you with familiar dread?
Dare you sleep? See ya...

Terry the Thylacine

Seldom acknowledged,
insects serve our planet well -
Let us offer thanks!

Jeff Patterson

you and your bullshit
is this how i will be judged?
take it or leave it

Ian Row

A Bumpo Twinset

i.
Empty and hollow
toss a coin into my soul
evermore it falls

ii.
When will this all end?
There is no reply, nuthin
just sneering silence

Bumpo

i miss alcohol
escaping all my problems
sweet oblivion

Bumpo

pedantic lawyer
overcompensates; process
or paranoia?

Ian Row

Spot Haiku 28 - Part 4 of 4

i.
pain wracks my body
its as nothing to my heart
a lost love is worse

Bumpo

ii.
Throwing caution out,
Never know unless you try
The worst aint that bad

Jason Rostant

iii.
Even if it makes
no shred of karmic sense, be bold!
Expect lightning!

Jeff Patterson

iv.
fleetingness of life
allows space to be grateful
moment to moment

Dawn Mok

Spot Haiku 28 - Part 3 of 4

i.
Disaster movie:
Clues mount. We see what's coming.
"...now here's the weather!"

Chris Gill

ii.
ligurian bees
the other side of the world
living in exile

Ian Row

Spot Haiku 28 - Part 2 of 4

Renovation Redux

i.
it's shedding 30 years
of soap and paint and time;
it's half a bathroom.

ii.
When this is over;
my kitchen will look so old -
a new addiction?

Cathy Dineen

Spot Haiku 28 - Part 1 of 4

i.
Ah, sweet irony!
To drink wine as I write on
Drug use in prison!

Sutekh the Destroyer

ii.
christmas pressies
double-sided tape is my friend
RSI from wrapping

Ian Row

iii.
higher duties is
twenty four seven on call.
where's my extra cash?

Cesca Alice

iv.
At the local fete
I pick up all the litter
It's such a good job!

Simon Patience

v.
parking lot rage
brings out the nasty in me
change your mind, run

Ian Row

the real question is,
can you have too much mango?
asked the apricot.

Ian Row

Gah haiku

Bumpo