Watched kettle never
boils... watched cell phone never rings...
where's that text message?

CRK

A school assignment
torns to shreds on carriage floor
formal unlearning.

Chris Gill

It feel so cold here
But it warms me to know it's
worse in Canberra

KPM

St. Partrick's Church, Chicago

Make a joyful noise
melody and harmony
sing those Gospel songs

CRK

Haiku 5 Day Challenge 5

Day 1.
Book of Kells Exhibition, Dublin

skilled in word and deed
turning darkness into light
Pangus confronts him

Day 2.
President Obama at Charleston funeral

a church full of grief
the President mourned with them
t'was amazing grace.

Day 3.
Sunday in Chicago

a day filled with song
church, theatre and lounge room
such rich harmony

Day 4.

woken by my dreams
Nico Geoffrey Jannekke
Perhaps I'm homesick

Day 5.

my Travelsim blues
sorted Facebook and U tube
a silver lining

Leah Billeam

Trying now to make
international phone calls
G.d. foreign sim

CRK

Wish I didn't go
looking; now all I see
your pic in hi-res.

Ian Row

such a long battle
and it came down 5 to 4
equal dignity

Leah Billeam

Hidden gin bottle
in the baptismal font...
all kinds of Spirit

CRK

Feeling healthy but
ancient...  just what do I mean...
I mean the long view

CRK

Frosty morns, cold days.
Layers of clothes off and on.
Winter can rack off.

KPM

Ceiling fan details
sunlight through Venetian blinds
resting a back back

CRK

Haiku 5 Day Challenge 4

Day 1.

When I treadmill jog
My skeleton takes off first
Skin's a beat behind

Day 2.

The tiger's shoulders
Rise and fall like cardboard waves
In a pantomime

Day 3.

These are my children
They both look like their father
Sometimes it's lonely

Day 4.

So many Yodas
Busking, appearing to float, no
imagination

Day 5.

How to make it clear?
Worry is not the same as 
Disappointment. child

Alison Lester

The new USB
Don't ask and you don't receive
It's Christmas in June

Ian Row

Haiku 5 Day Challenge 3 - A Collective

i.
hearts break to open
so you choose Love even when
Love doesn't choose you

Dawn Mok

ii.

iii.
pack, unpack
seals break, facilitating
emptying

Dawn Mok

iv.
Close behind bare trees
shiny grey - my steps disturb
the sky on the ground

Chris Gill

v.
Whatever happens.
Still the bird will sing. Voices
in the soft morning.

Sarah Rae

vi.
Sitting in my room
Thinking about the future
Soon to be sixty

William Schoen

vii.
should I sit up front
or in the back? split second
uber etiquette

Dawn Mok

What's all that racket?
I forgot to feed the cat
Sometimes it happens

Ian Row

Facebook love

Haiku 5 Day Challenge 2

Day 1

Haiku every day
for five days... how frightening
Leah, you're up next

Day 2

"When did I write all
this stuff in a long life of
never writing?"

*inspired by a poetry reading by American poet, Louise Gluck

Day 3

Make my enemy
a sword of gold... but give me 
forged and sharpened steel

*inspired by Alexander the Great

Day 4

No real value 
crystal... not precious gemstones
magnifying glass

Day 5

Chris with pirate eyes
and earrings... protector of 
that beautiful girl

CRK

Haiku 5 Day Challenge 1

Day 1.

Filtering through cloud

Like light through Venetian blinds

Sunrise takes it time

Day 2.

All year round tree sleeves

This is a nice neighbourhood

No possums allowed

Day 3.

The traffic curls past

No one cares for the dead cat

Inside, a boy wakes...

Day 4

Dream in wide format

No sordid details were spared

People I don't know

Day 5.

That there will be 

more of us and less of them 

is the white man's fear

Ian Row

A twinset about small talk

i.
Small talk
with the guy from HR
I'm on auto

Ian Row

ii.
This weekend's footy,
the kid's school concert, home life:
Banal office chat.

KPM

A twinset about seagulls

i.
One legged seagull
set to starve unless we stage
an intervention

Ian Row

ii.
Tiny gulls severe
limbs for sympathy and chips
Don't be taken in.

KPM

A good night haiku for you

'The warm bed beckons
The night an endless canvas
The mind rides the stars.'

Ramon Loyola

Source: The Internet

Recuperation
Rest meant to restore myself
Need more ZING! here please

KPM

A simple 'thank you'
honest and heartfelt, dismissed
A lesson unlearned

Ian Row

An unopened letter
houses a public secret
that's just between us

Ian Row

8 friggin degrees
Alpaca blanket beats half
hearted split system

Ian Row

Calendar haiku: June 2015

Swaying, swaying,
as springtime goes away - look -
in the fields, the grasses!

Issa (1763 - 1828)

Drying Yuzen at Katsura River by
Kotozuka Eiichi (1906 - 1979)