A thief is a thief

A thief is a thief
Can’t even trust a brother
Jaryd Killop steals

Ian Row

i.
Ugly migrant child
evokes lesser sympathy
bright local babies

ii.
7.48
no seats on city bound train
suburb spillover

Ian Row

Spot Haiku 34

i.
close air hold its own
in winter's final weather
pale light breaks through glass

Catherine Dineen

ii.
In Australia
my right to equality
is traded for votes.

Chris Gill

iii.
Control the ego
Protect it and subsume it
Looking for balance

Simon Patience

iv.
rain reigns night and day
tyranny of wet and grey
when'll you go away?

Dawn Mok

v.
Everyday is Christmas
Every night is New Year’s eve
Sade in my house

*contains a lyric written by Sade Adu and Martin Ditcham

Ian Row

vi.
drunk and fat I see
it must be that time of year
Jesus' birthday

Catherine Dineen

New York traffic jam
Sun pouring through the window
Sweating my ass off

Neil Krieger

so it's come to this...
life in a fragile time;
drinking in secret

Catherine Dineen

Change comes, but slowly -
Three steps forward, two steps back
Its sweet time, taken

Jeff Patterson

Sweet, foreign crushes
on number-poets happen -
Strange perhaps, but true

Jeff Patterson