Roundtable of friends
Sharing food binds the spirit
Come closer he said

For Amanda

Ian Row

Porn in the background
helps me think... get the words out
I'll get back to ya

Rocky

Into pupil black
Seeking a charred thought long gone
Yet present, darn it!

Damien Norris

Sad, replaced, and lost
she wanders old and in pain.
Friends dazzled by new.

Steve Andrews

Oh America
Your last chance to get it right
Please don't fuck it up

Ian Row

Responsorial haiku 3

in response to how could anyone [22.10.08]

Female vocalists
Aretha and Roberta
Filed under "F"

Terry the Funky Thylacine

how could anyone
confuse aretha franklin
with roberta flack?

Ian Row

Predictive function (Rated PG)

predictive function
'puppy'/'pussy', 'bum' & 'cum'
'cock' leads to 'anal'

Ian Row

you wanna trip me?
be careful what you wish for.
things you can't take back.

Neve

power steering chick
death by reversing mazda
power in wrong hands

Ian Row

Spot Haiku 20

i.
jealousy rising
housemate, europe, seven weeks
at least house is mine

Jason Rostant

ii.
Blah, blah in my head
Cough, flutter and blow
Spring Cold

Karen McVean

iii.
these rich fair weather
capitalists fast become
socialists in strife

Patrick McCormick

iv.
Words, phrases stop.
Concatenations find a home
In Yellow search.

Karen McVean

v.
guy and madonna;
tea and david-splitsville
a bad moon rising?

Cathy Dineen

a text message
a foot short of an olive branch
i will not beg

Neve

Two haiku about two Melbourne Fringe Festival 2008 plays

i.New World Order
Treatment: Shakespearean
Metaphor massaged by language,
self-consciously.

ii.Halfway across the River
Concept: Living death
Unfetterred by its form,
a story is sold.

Ian Row

Nasty, Nasty, Day
People, shifty, thoughtless, grrr
Home-time, fresh-air, soon

Damien Norris

Paradigm defined
in seventeen syllables.
Morae is too hard.

Steve Andrews

I'm grumpy, he says
You better get used to it
Things i do for love

for Terry

Ian Row

don't wanna wake you
REM means you're sleeping,
maybe travelling.

for LA

Ian Row

I watch her drowning
yet fight the urge to rescue
lest she swim again.

Chris Gill

Buying jeans online?
Seller tries it on. You can't.
32? My arse!

Chris Gill

i want to heal you
make it all go away
fast forward ~ rewind

Ian Row

Oh Bounce, you're gorgeous!
It's that 'little boy lost' face!
Go on, in my bed

for Bounce

Ian Row

for the last time...
I wait for my first love
second fiddle

Anonymous