a broken teapot
can't be fixed won't throw it out
until I'm ready

Ian Row

'Living document'

Run the risk you'll be written

out of history

Ian Row

Bitter winds shift
So too our hearts
As we grant love leave

I, Lady Bird
@_iLadyBird

trouble free cancer exam
on the way home
I acquire a diary

Minako Noma, 2011
Matsuyama, Japan

Tweeted by Haiku North America 
@haikunortham

I'm not here for your
amusement; Oh FFS.
Go on, make it quick.

Charlie

In Winter, it's hard
To recall a summer's warmth.
Old age forgets youth.

Judge The Poet
@judgethepoet

How poignant it is
A hoarder in denial
Says he can help you

Alison Lester

Black bard on the street
handing out hip hop lyrics
busking poetry

Carol Ruth Kimmel

Long slow desire
The flesh is willing, unfolds
Old habits die hard

Ian Row

Horoscope

Today's horoscope
A lifespan, life's plan, threatened
What if I said 'no'?

Ian Row

drought tolerant plants
gifts for an estranged mother
zero maintenance

Ian Row

Born a GMO
Natural like polyester
Innocent apples

Half Good Haiku
@HGHaiku

Exhausted by work
Crashing on  Friday night.
Restore me weekend!

Kenton Penley Miller

Charity chocolate

charity chocolate
only one box, only because I
thought he could be God

Ian Row

What made her different 
Is that she arrived as one
And not as many

HaikuD2
@HaikuD2

Ice cream disaster
An oil spill of French Vanilla
No complaints from cat

Ian Row

hornets nests
All my nightmares
learning to fly

Reka Jellema
@RekaJellema

Umpty-ump years old
and I still find myself just
a work of progress

Carol Ruth Kimmel

broken door bells
hidden behind each door
broken lives

Haiku Moments
@daviddayson

Hush now, Jealousy
Your music: so sad; so shrill
Hush now as I sing

Jeff Patterson

I dreamt of sunshine,
but woke to the sound of rain.
Can I dream all day?

Chris Gill

Smokers hunched over
Their cigarettes in the hope
Their ends will warm them

Kenton Penley Miller

Between where you are
and where you need to be
one dangerous step

Chris Gill

Aphrodisiac
Japanese books of all kinds
Kinokuniya

Carol Ruth Kimmel

for Leah, William Schoen, Laura and Dwight

Shadows make more legs
on non web-spinning spiders
claiming her new house

Carol Ruth Kimmel

for Linda Rogers

Words with friends

Words with friends
I smell a word generator
Silence with friends

Ian Row

Home

This house is my home
I think I'll stay forever
You are like my house

Ian Row

dementia unit
the old therapy dog
remembers everyone

Joan Prefontaine 
@haikueveryday

My niece sleeps like she's
Halfway through a discus throw
Or figure skating

Alison Lester

empty frames hanging
family history gone
staring - ugly walls

Mandy Bontius @AylaMey

After all
this time -
butterflies

Ian Row

I dream of father

We're hanging a framed picture

So much space to fill

Ian Row

you are no longer
the source of my happiness
and unhappiness

Dawn Mok

A haiku for Dawn Fraser

well well well
why don't you tell us
what you really feel

Ian Row

platform number one
'stand behind the yellow line'
a couple suck face

Ian Row

Calendar haiku: July 2015

Through the town

a little stream is flowing - 

willow branches hanging down

Shiki (1867 - 1902)

Artwork: Benkei Bridge, 1940
by Yoshida Toshi (1911 - 1995)

walking down the street
last night I saw a fox
using the crosswalk

Rosemary
@haikutaxi

And then we were 9!

Happy Birthday to us and thank you heaps to everyone who hot crossed for us over the last 12 months. Here's the blogroll for 2014/2015:

Alison Lester
Anna Grace
Anna Hyland
Anonymous
Buson
Carol D'Cruz
CRK/Carol Ruth Kimmel
Cesca Alice
Charlie (the cat)
Chris Gill
Dawn Mok
Douglas Martin
Gonsui
Grant Lee Phillips
Hashin
Ian Row
James Sutekh
Jeff Patterson
Jenny Morris
Jim McKay
KPM/Kenton Penley Miller
Kito
Leah Billeam
Mary K Witte
Michael Leunig
Michael Stipe
Natsume Soseki
Onitsura
Orlando
Ramon Loyola
Ratsentsu
Rick Roth
Rocket
Rocky
Sarah Rae
Sharon Lee
Soin
SVU
Teishitsu
Tom Gilroy
Virginia Gay
William Schoen

and then some days with
out any clear reasons why
it's just easier

Ian Row

When deciding to
play the game it is best to
first consider the prize

Ian Row

On the opposite
ends of the tram. Did you 
see me not see you?

Ian Row

Shopping mall busker
in his bed, his curled up dog
Harmony vocal

Ian Row