Current Events Haiku

i.
cab driver stabbing
protests: a city stands still
at last, concessions

ii.
seat sniffing MP
what's wrong with you Liberals?
a circus of freaks

Ian Row

complications: thoughts
stirring, stewing, bring to boil
keeping me awake

Ian Row

Tram Haiku 1

tram way etiquette
transistor broadcasting loud
failure in row one

Jenny Morris

Spot Haiku 15

i.
just when i thought my
day was going to be endless
drudge - spot haiku's here!!

Cathy Dineen

ii.Home time
In a trance
I only want to be with you
Crazy but true.

Karen McVean

iii.
the going down of the sun
means more to us all
on April the twenty-fifth

Leah Billeam

iv.
Five, seven, five or
seven, five seven?
I can't spot haiku.

Chris Gill

v.
pennsylvania
retrograde rustbelt rednecks
brush them off barack

Patrick McCormick

Cemetery Tour: Suite

i.
indigo evening
just five torchlights between us
history lights the way

ii.
the mausoleum
a trolley of dead lilies
porcelain faces

iii.
granite monuments
threaten the sky. beneath, the
water table stirs.

iv.
lives unravel
celebrated, secrets spilled.
does shame fade away?

v.
life's fitful fever
infant mortaility rate
unforgiving times

Ian Row

Guess who I saw in the paper today

resurfacing
eleven years in between
I still cringe

Ian Row

Can't take the China
out of the Chinese... Stir-fried
face and jasmine pride.

Josh

pre-dawn exercise
no longer theory but fact
gym monkey flunkey

Cathy Dineen

Friday morning: mist.
Indoors all day. Sunshine missed.
Weeks end. Darkness. Pissed.

Chris Gill

Another Facebook haiku

unsubscribe, he clicked
details of your boring life
go feed someone else

Ian Row

A Facebook haiku

it's not me, it's you
enact facebook deletion
lackadaisical

Cesca Alice

i had a wife
long ago, she left
and I stayed.

Paul

I have a girlfriend
Just like that. Where does that leave me?
Where I've always been.

Neve

hungry, desperate world
the poverty line redrawn
we need loaves and fish

Ian Row

Burnt illegally
Hercules and love affair
Thanks for the tip off

Jason Rostant

Two haiku about being on a steering committee

Pre:
steering committee
you drive and they navigate
then me, in blind spot

Post:
steering committee
applause as i indicate
off go the p-plates

Ian Row

tracing the red lights...
read her lips... it's a slow night
at the cinema

Rocky

for luka

lego afternoon
field of possibilities
brick by brick we build

Ian Row

4WD cockhead
3 litre 6 cylinder
No presence of mind

Ian Row

the passport photo
i-have-a-fat-neck-i-have-a-fat-neck!
you are what you write

Ian Row

Post-modern semi-
limericks, provide food for thought
in bite-size chunks

G

Speed Round 8

A mid-week hump suite

i.
Harmful odours swirl
Old sandwiches, old ideas
The Pod blues in C

Jenny Morris

ii.
Can't think
Piss or leave or
Do both

Karen McVean

iii.
Can't think
Piss or yell or leave
Multiple choices

Karen McVean

iv.Speed hump haiku
No matter how slow
I drive over the speed hump
it never says thanks.

Chris Gill

v.
MBF wants to
buy my soul with ready cash
SOLD!!

Cathy Dineen

baby says 'eat me',
spruiking his deliciousness,
tempting the tourist.

Ian Row

self serving chatter
will you listen to yourself, mate
self service ego

Ian Row

Watershed Moments 4

mirror to myself
from the raft of excuses...
rises the clean truth

Ian Row

one girl's tony
is another man's joe -
this week's opiate

Neve

The Interview

We'll judge your merit
by passively watching you
fail to guess our thoughts.

Chris Gill