i.
In the choir loft
Sandwiches and coffee grabbed
Heav’n and nature sing

ii.
Anglican church so
High it was stratospheric
Christmas Eve incense

iii.
In spite of the worst
Christmas homily ever
Jesus Christ is born

Carol Ruth Kimmel

Fresh out of propane,
Bubba taps landfill methane.
Steaks taste recycled.

Mary K Witte
From Redneck Haiku

Your wired sex face
is very unattractive.
No, let me call you.

Rocky

You. Bore. Me.

Might feel different tomorrow.

Might not.

Ian Row

My dead mother
Frequents my mind
Wardrobe-changing season.

Natsume Soseki*

*Translated from the Japanese. From The Little Book of Zen

Wedding night fireworks
as Flo's ex-husband threatens
to bring back the kids

Mary K Witte

From Redneck Haiku

Huge cockroach scuttled

Across my naked foot once

It felt really nice

Alison Lester

Old love letters
Read quickly
and thrown out

From The Haiku Year (1998) p69

Environmental my ass
full of false claims
I'll compost your ads

From The Haiku Year (1998) p100

4WD drivers

don't thank you for giving way

Blind spot in their heads

Ian Row

Tuileries Garden-Jardin Des Tuileries

A lonely chair sits

In the Paris winter chill

Ouch my cold butt cheeks

Sharon Lee

A glimpse of beauty,

As I pass him standing there.

Snapshot of the mind.

KPM

Public, happy smile.

Meet and greet and then it's done.

Adrenalin crash.

KPM

Post-event haiku twinset

1.
By all accounts
it was a success yet I feel
un.ex.cep.tio.nal

2.
"You said that last year"
Every year I feel the same
A familiar friend

Ian Row

Many Mormons with

Luggage; their smiles were like soft

Moth wings on my face

Alison Lester

low-hanging dark thoughts

rotting before they ripen

fruitless suffering

Dawn Mok

Whirling lights panic

The preemptive siren wails

Midnight ambulance

Ian Row

2 of 2: Haiku by Uejima Onitsura (1660-1738)

It is nice to read
news that our spring rain also
visited your town

Onitsura

From Haiku Harvest (1962) p27

1 of 2: Haiku by Uejima Onitsura (1660-1738)

Come come! I call.
But the fireflies flash away
into the darkness

Onitsura

From Haiku Harvest (1962) p57

*Australia's Hottest Ginger Pet competition

"Validate me," said

the cat. "Let me be your king."

‪#‎shamelessplug*

Ian Row

Parenting is this:

Your son stars in school play so

You don't sleep a wink

Alison Lester

Mondays. Is there a

more cruel concept in the world?

Not enough coffee.

KPM