A Facebook friend dies
Someone I have never met
Superficial guilt

Ian Row

How about this
Bigger than the one at home
Red brings out my eyes

Charlie

golden days like these
glow with possibility
catch my reflection

Ian Row

Peta's been busy
Tony's script passes muster
The head, not the heart

Ian Row

Short-term Moon

'Wednesdays free waxing'
Saturdays for shining bright
Waning on Sundays

Carol Ruth Kimmel

Icing on the cake
Space enough but not for you
A country flip flops

Ian Row

'Do not feed the birds'
Train station's a halfway house
for wayward seagulls

Ian Row

My black eyeliner
Highlights my eyelid wrinkles
That's the end of that

Alison Lester

'recurring dreams' nightmare
lingers long after the credits
the plot rethickens

Ian Row

What are you doing?
No, I don't want to cuddle.
Put some clothes on, please.

Charlie

Fleece blanket or cat
Static electricity
Stay away from me

Ian Row

Stall hands shout prices
Bustling, bargaining shoppers
Humanity thrives.

KPM

dual view desktop
the size of Manhattan
two fields of vision

Jenny Morris & Ian Row

The bitumen road
Pieces of broken mirror
The big sky, shattered

Ian Row

From my passing train
I see two random friends hug.
A glimpse of their joy.

KPM

She talks to herself
Tries to shake some sense of it
So close then she slips

Ian Row

could you park your
mid-life crisis somewhere else?
this spot's taken

Dawn Mok

sweaty train ride home
already behind schedule
feels even longer

Ian Row

A wind-bell tinkling,

hushed in the noon sun is now

a shelter for bees

Gonsui

From Haiku Harvest (1967) p27

The constant buzz of
Highway noise and ceiling fans
Singapore lament

Alison Lester

Calendar haiku: January 2015

The old year goes away - 
and the things it takes along,
what and what are they?

Soin (1605 - 1682)

Playing Battledore and Shuttlecock (1953) by
Shimura Tatsumi (1907 - 1980)