Lush Jacaranda
Branches move like peacock plumes
Squally autumn winds

Eva Brookes

Liberals are evil,
And Labor has lost its way,
Let's vote for The Greens.

James Von Sutekh

Jericho - ghostly
Oak and faded photographs.
One rusted gravesite.

Catherine Austin

Wanna see my snake?
Dude has a Diamond python!
Not on the first date.

Ian Row

Warbling red bird
Suit of snow upon your back
Rise and shake away

Annie Jeffries

My nose and his foot
Two cripples in Charles Street
Looking for our bin...

Catherine Austin

"B"

Hung the moon and stars,
I know he did! And if not...
he was in on it

Jeff Patterson

Voices in her head
This is why she plays music
Someone else's song

Ian Row

The rival returns
Pushes buttons, flicks switches
A circuit breaker

Ian Row

So many "seers,"
so few "likes" - luckily, I
love my every line

Jeff Patterson

proof read all haikus
an extra syllable makes
a pretty poem

April Norcross

41 outside
Inside it's like a resort
Day at the office

Ian Row

o despicable
self indulgent creature who
tries to sell me things

April Norcross

living and dying
every breath - inhale, exhale
live and let limbo

Dawn Mok and Ian Row

It's a school night but
I know how you like to live
dangerously

Ian Row

Winter, north or south?
Both unloved - still, I'd rather have
Yellow grass than snow

Jeff Patterson

Perth airport bustle
Rested but eager for home
FIFO for Xmas

Jason Rostant

Under my skin, your
finger as an antenna
sparks my yearning soul

Spudnik Nebulanut

Stone-handed partners
Sing north of the horizon
Music but a breath

Spudnik Nebulanut

10.43pm ~
Last bus 10pm
Screw you, suburbia!
Not even a cab

10.52pm ~
Rain stops, I walk home
careful not to step on snails
crossing the pavement.

11.08pm ~
This will mend my back
unfold my crumpled body
placate the tetchy spine

Ian Row

melaleuca blooms
plain jane recasts herself
shiny honeyed summer

Ian Row

no crusty baguettes
most people don't dig hard bread
gourmet delusion

Ian Row

form versus function
perfect bound or saddle stitch
that is the question

Ian Row

oh michael jackson!
in nineteen-eighty I would
have spent time with you.

Jeanne Frayne

seeking the finite

brings me full circle back

to the infinite

Dawn Mok

Grace lives in the space

sincere smiles are found that

at one time held tears

Jeff Patterson

Curse you snooze button!

Tempting siren of deceit

Now I'm late again.

James Von Sutekh

Speed Round 22

i.

Bravery, be mine

Not by pill or liquid - no

Rise from the heart, true

Jeff Patterson
 

ii.

Deceased estate! Yay!

Supply chain of pre-loved goods.

Must contain my joy.

Ian Row

iii.

You again

Causing my reflex to flex

Hard habit to break

Neve

iv.

Continental cake

Twice the cream on the corner

Death by sweet tooth

Ian Row

v.

When truck and train meet

Both road and rail become blocked

Phew! No-one was hurt.

Chris Gill

vi.

After forever

I find you; seeing you was

on my bucket list

Ian Row

vii.

Midst tumultuous

Change and hope and chance events

I sit – Buddha-like

Cathy Dineen

Like a sweet dessert -
All my moves, my words with friends -
You, I save for last

Jeff Patterson

Subconsciously
stockpiling soy milk
Suspect

Ian Row

Friends to non-lovers,
Boys to men, soul-bound brothers -
How far, you and I!

Jeff Patterson

What's a nice car like
you doing being driven...
Northern suburbs skank.

Ian Row

i.

i tried but couldn't

capture your loneliness and

your pain in three lines

ii.

your body fails you

your mind a mischievous twin

anger, then madness 

Ian Row

A blog of old signs
I found, and knew at once for
whom this was a sign.

Chris Gill

i.
unconditional
timely reminders denote
the law between us

ii.
sea shells and sponges
beaches i dont remember
souvenir or proof

Ian Row