Speed Round 7

i.
i can't work this thing
god help me, what have i done?
new nokia phone

Cathy Dineen

ii.
Telephone parry
Different economy
Hiding my feelings

Jenny Morris

iii.
day spent in the court
justice is not always done
one distressed client

Leah Billeam

iv.
Season of goodwill?
Conflict and self-harm, more like.
Just like Bethlehem.

Chris Gill

v.IT Christmas
Disco fun drinks
yarra stinks, sun beats, liquorice blocks
on Sensis geeks

Karen McVean

vi.
refusing to cool
air-conditioners bellow
in the quiet night

cambosis

vii.
intoxicated
autobiographical
reconsidering

cambosis

all the pretty ducks
but crystal duck is all you remember
alzheimers i say

Ian Row

for ms morris

screen printing is over
what next? portuguese? baking?
surely cake will win

Ian Row

old friend's house cooling
new zealand is far away
very cold I hear

Ian Row

no early bird tix
christmas parties are overrated
look for simple joys

Ian Row

Five haiku about other people being boring

i.
too boring for words
Herald Sun reader... deep sigh
is this contagious?

ii.
mastermind
special subject: how to bore
No contest - You win!

iii.
When you are talking
paint dries, grass grows, brain cells die
Silence is golden.

iv.
if i annoy you
the way you annoy me, how
can we still be friends?

v.
wish i was homeward
bound instead, to you. alas
want to be alone.

Jenny Morris

Australian Idol
the chick won. now can i get
on with my life please?

Ian Row

Spot Haiku 14 - Post-election Haiku Part 2

i.
Let us rejoice in
IR reforms and justice to our land
Oh, heavenly day

Karen McVean

ii.
Insinkerator
Howard, Costello, and Brough
No room for peelings

Jenny Morris

regime change
you've shown us yanks
how it's done

Bill Kenney

Spot Haiku 14 - Post-election Haiku Part 1

i.
election party
howard's end at fisherman's bend
we wield our voodoo

Ian Row

ii.
going, going, gone
even at the very end
he was still spinning

Ian Row

iii.
ok, it went well
we voted for the workers -
the light on the hill

Cathy Dineen

iv.
personal hubris
that was his downfall, she said
never forget that

Ian Row

Spot Haiku 14 - Pre-election Haiku Part 2

i.
No kids overboard John
Just you swimming for the stars
Take a deep breathe now

Lynne Alice

ii.
Balance of power, in
the Senate. Vote 1, Greens!
Richard Di Natale.

Karen McVean

iii.
i caught a photo
the other day, plane wrote in the sky
"kev 4 pm"

Zoe Kelly

Spot Haiku 14 - Pre-election Haiku Part 1

i.
country, divided
how can i be friends with you?
your right to be wrong

Ian Row

ii.
No stranger danger
to scare the voters this time.
Loveless man naked.

Chris Gill

iii.
a vote
is a choice is a message
is a weapon

Ian Row

iv.
he could call it off -
put us under martial law
not win; but not lose

Cathy Dineen

v.
train station...flyers
"you can still make the difference'
last-minute lobbying

Ian Row

A haiku about Justin Timberlake in concert

JT! Live and how!
Very fly for a white guy
He's MJ, evolved.

Ian Row

A haiku about election time

Election time, and
Tweedledum and you know who
spin us 'til we puke.

Chris Gill

A haiku about becoming an Australian Citizen

today
i became one of them
one of us

Ian Row

A haiku about Chaka Khan's 'Funk This'

shiny new release
soars but misses perfection
ungrateful am i

Ian Row

An 'out of sorts' haiku

a flat-tense combo
it's not just dehydration
some flowers will help

Ian Row

wait an hour for
table outside then blender
goes into overdrive

Ian Row

Two haiku about dad's knee replacement surgery

i.
these days...
ordinary miracles
misplaced fears

ii.
daily check-in calls
too far to make a difference
guilt

Ian Row

Get with it, SBS

John Howard is
not world news, a tinny minnow
among leviathans

Megan Thomson

long lost nadia
fifteen years - how many lives?
where did the time go?

Ian Row

country church fete
sales staff's incorrect response
off my christmas list

Ian Row

the case of
the missing bette midler cds
has been solved

Ian Row

Ode to Brisbane

cicada music -
frangipani holiday -
rain on a tin roof

Cathy Dineen