Rainbow ~
Just when I needed an end
comes a beginning

Ian Row

Indigenous Antipodean top predator welcomes introduced placental competition

I'll bite you, baby!
Marsupial carnivore,
it's what I do best!

Terry the Thylacine

Little fuzzy duck
you hop SO cute from the pond
and shit everywhere.

Chris Gill

bright sky on the ground
looking down is looking up
puddles after rain

Chris Gill

Worried by eBay
When will my parcel arrive?
Postal traumatic

Chris Gill

Responsorial haiku 2

in response to so that's art deco [21.07.08]

Saw the Deco show
Laughed out loud at the Hiaku
Curved, girly edges

Sharkbite Von Herringattack

so that's art deco -
radios in bakelite -
and jo baker's boobs

Cathy Dineen

No more Big Brother!
How will we fill the void?
With cake, silly!

Shaylaya

haiku poems are great
but sometimes they don't make sense
refrigerator

Author unknown
Submitted by Jessica Ardley

Fragrance on one arm
Another on another
Sniff one two cocktail

Chris Gill

Dream: 19/07

i.
i slept well
i went to mozambique
there were mud huts

ii.
two teenagers
decide to keep the baby
i said i'll help them

Ian Row

for kayla

your roots are showing!
the real you... unrepressible,
still shiny and new.

Shaylaya

flirtation
same old moves from way back when
imperfect cover

Ian Row

cab sav secrets spill
we watch him cast his spell
lazy susan spins

Ian Row

PMS Tuesday

PMS Tuesday
Orgy of expectations
Stand and deliver

Ian Row

PMS Monday

PMS Monday
Ironic how far you've come
to go nowhere

Ian Row

Cremation

No ashes, remains
Out to sea by balloon
Keepsake urn.

Karen McVean

possum in chimney
too cold for you outside; stay
but i won't feed you

Ian Row

Alison

street sign reminder
you and your evil ways
a curse on you

Ian Row

For it to make sense,
common language must be shared.
It isn’t. So what?

Sharkbite von Herringattack

towel in the bowl,
is like owl into shovel
they're not related

Hayu Dyah

what a father needs...
gentle push to go forward -
the knowledge he can

Ian Row

Speed Round 9

i.
Haiku I gave you
All the best years of my life
No syllables left

Jenny Morris

ii.Sales Frenzy
so many layers
and such a small cubicle
gonna guess my size....

Cathy Dineen

iii.
Is this the same place?
Old landmarks roll by dreamlike,
foggy dawn train ride.

Chris Gill

iv.
Midlife Glasses
Prada, prodesign, ted baker - focus, not cuss
Here's looking at you

Karen McVean

v.
baby delicious
is becoming stale and hard.
all men are bastards!

Cesca Alice

vi.
one last trough hurrah
inducing mid-winter warmth
dance, your ecstacy

Jason Rostant

vii.
michael rows his boat
ashore... learning to listen,
your voice is your guide

Ian Row

A hot stuff suite

i.
Malaysian sans you -
a restaurant betrayal?
my Char Hor Fun fun

ii.
Everybody needs
sambal to love, oh baby!
Love to sambal. Yeah!

Chris Gill

to be Gary
Coleman's doppelganger is
unfortunate

Rocky

Haiku gastro-interruptus

Queasy, runny guts...
That Sunday night lasagna
was.... oops! Excuse me....

Chris Gill

Tai chi in the park
morning traffic rushing by
no need to compete

Jenny Morris

Violet voodoo thoughts
What you get when you forget
your medication

Neve

cramping your style?
exactly what style is that?
face for radio

Ian Row

powerpoint dancing
template moves/effects, and no
imagination

Rocky

all day pyjamas
anti social saturday
self-sufficiency

Ian Row

Responsorial haiku

in response to Dead on the doorstep [26.06.08]

What maudlin rubbish!
Dead cats should be for breakfast,
not soppy poems!

Terry the Thylacine

A Thylacine trilogy

i.
'Though not yet extinct,
I have been infected with
the Haiku Virus.

ii.
My days tick away
each more defined than the last
by three-line poems.

iii.
Flickering footage:
these bars, those rules, my prison
yet in it I live.

Terry the Thylacine

Hot Cross Haiku is Two!

Happy birthday everyone!
And a big 'thank you' to the following hot crossers
for your poetry over the last 12 months.

Cesca Alice
Lynne Alice
Leah Billeam
Cambosis
Ross Clarke
Cathy Dineen
Hayu Dyah
G
Chris Gill
Josh
Timothy K
Judy Kamilhor
Zoe Kelly
Bill Kenney
Carol Ruth Kimmel
Patrick McCormick
Karen McVean
Dawn Mok
Jenny Morris
Neve
Simon Patience
Rocky
Jason Rostant
Matthew Ryan
Crystal Tan
Megan Thomson
Terry the Thylacine
Sharkbite Von Herringattack
Matthew Wright

you are already two!
happy haiku to you... and
you and you and you

Dawn Mok

smoke from
tobacco fires
mingle on the roof

Timothy K

still pools
in the rocks - rounded stones
in my pocket

Timothy K

Pet haiku

i.
i had a rover
his name was koon, he was a cat
and that was that

ii.
cold fur
faux sleep
forlorn

Dawn Mok