raining cats and dogs
two parts 'weather' three parts 'sign'
wet and wild future

Ian Row

Eve of New year's Eve
Make your choices quickly
Less you miss the boat

Ian Row

Zen at Ground Zero
Weather warning is forecast
You are a lighthouse

Ian Row

sooner or later
all your second chances
run out

Ian Row

My open window
Allows the neighbour's air con
To hum me to sleep

Kenton Penley Miller

It's hard to be still
Birthday anticipation
The child in the man

Ian Row

A Tak Po (Dim Sum Restaurant) Twinset

i.
Dinner for one
I asked for the pork not frog
I'm glad he checked

ii.
Sliced pork black pepper
If it works there is no shame
in repeating meals

Ian Row

"Viente Poemas
de amor"... I want to learn
Spanish, Neruda

Carol Ruth Kimmel

for my friends in Chile, Jeannette Saravia Salas and Jorge Ruiz

big shot
three olives 
in his martini

Michael Ketchek
Rochester, NY
via @haikunortham

Summertime Bathing Blues

No words are needed.
A sideways judging glance
at my gut's enough.

Kenton Penley Miller

Note to self

Note to self:

You don't 
need permission to
be free

Ian Row

I will break your heart
once I retrieve it from the
rubble of your fears

Dawn Mok

Image by Dawn Mok

I hate holidays
No you no cuddles and I
can't work the remote

Charlie

Image by Ian Row

Afraid of the sea
but I love the ships with their
masts and ropes and sails

Carol Ruth Kimmel

Dying moth
I am afraid to confront
your struggle

Ian Row

Imperfect flowers.
Where do they go to die?
Beauty has a place.

Ian Row

Image by Ian Row

Shock to the system
Yelled at by lollipop man
Margin of error

Ian Row

A warm summer night
Silence not even static
Check cat for a pulse

Ian Row

Sorry I'm filthy
I like it under the car
Like the way it smells

Charlie

Image by Ian Row

And when you get back
Please please change the fucking sheets
I'm so over pink

Charlie

Image by Ian Row

You going shopping?
A real present this year please?
Something to cuddle

Charlie

Image by Ian Row

Fat skateboarders

Fat skateboarders
Something you often don't see
Skate expectations

Ian Row

Written by Arcadius Jung
from http://litlpup.tumblr.com

Calendar haiku: December

Plains and mountains
all enveloped in the snow -
there is nothing else

Joso (1661-1704)

Sawatari in Joshu by
Takakashi Hiroaki (Shotei) (1871-1945)