So glad you're home!
Could nap forever with you!
It's. A. Metaphor.

Charlie

Tired, grumpy and flat;

Try not to think too hard that

it's only mid-week

KPM

Screw you, Spring

joy sunshines ripped out
by gallivanting pollen
screw you, Spring

Ian Row

#alien

Alien, Channel ONE.
hashtag: howmanytimescan
onewatchalien

Ian Row

Insouciantly

'Insouciantly'
Tony uses a big word.
Who's writing this show?

Ian Row

Right, have a good day.
Yeah yeah, I'll take the bins in.
Don't forget - SOY milk.

Charlie

Technophobic I

Technophobic I
on the verge of smart TV
Lost in the ether

Rocket

I blame the full moon

I blame the full moon
the push and pull inside me
leaves you off the hook

Ian Row

Mistakes

Mistakes can be made.
Even when unintended.
Still cut just as deep.

KPM

Treat her like the help
and that's all you'll get from her
Too little, too late

Ian Row

A haiku about a brownie

I don't care
if you're a brownie
I wuv you

Anonymous

I created cartoons
that people read and enjoyed.
Used to be famous.

KPM

A haiku about getting out of bed

Submitted by KPM

A haiku about sardines

Last time I'll say this
I don't care how you serve it
Not eating sardines

Charlie

Mad Preston Market

Mad Preston Market
Plan of attack: a short list
a clear route - success!

Ian Row

Desire lines triumph
When the makers of footpaths
Reflect well trod paths

KPM

Years later...

Years later I still
spin a familiar tune
You are not my tribe

Ian Row

Channel Seven please
I'd do it but I don't have
opposable thumbs

Charlie

A haiku about the Disco Appreciation Society

"Administrator"
I would respect you if you 
weren't so ignorant

Ian Row

Imagination

Imagination
The Specials board instead of 
number 44

Ian Row

Afterthoughts

hate the way after-
thoughts crawl under creep over
becoming the truth

Ian Row

So that guy last night,
you gonna see him again?
You should. I like him.

Charlie

A haiku about wi-fi

A calamity
avoided on off simple
wi-fi restored

Ian Row

I'm not moving...

I'm not moving till
you make me a house, tunnels
and a verandah

Orlando

Birthday man

Birthday what to give 
a man who has everything
Recycle my love

Ian Row

Where have you been?
I hope you got some biscuits
Not enough biscuits

Charlie

Is it almost Spring
Don't take it personally
It's boring inside

Charlie

A haiku about gay rugby players

Gay rugby players
we're all thinking the same thing
what do you expect

Rocky

Tell him you told me
- what you don't know can hurt you -
so he knows I know

Ian Row

Middle management

Middle management.
Supposedly helping us.
Getting in the way.

KPM

Cooperative technology

Cooperative
technology, bridge this gap
Don't get in my way

Ian Row

Looks warm through the glass
Air had an edge to it though
The chill reminds you

KPM

Looks like Spring, feels like Summer

Why is it so bright
Looks like Spring is almost here
But feels like Summer

Ian Row

Passenger

Passenger on train
looks like Hitler; just add mo
then presto

Ian Row

Bacon

Why is that bacon
still in my news feed, my head
haunting, taunting me

Ian Row

Although I'm on Facebook:
I'm told we're on Twitter now.
Post to repost please?

KPM

Three key messages

A responsorial haiku to September 10, 2009

"I now have a cat."
"Moved to the northern suburbs?"
"Alan? We broke up."

Ian Row

Some days are wild rides
Thoroughly knocking you 'round
Just don't let it show.

KPM

Withdrawal

Pharmacist is gone.
Away. Europe. For 12 months.
Withdrawal symptoms.

Ian Row

Workshop in woop woop

workshop in woop woop
blank stares and frowns all they wore
long way for nothing

Ian Row (feat. Chris Gill)

Help him Lord Ganesh
move the mountain in his head
carry us away

Ian Row

Goals for the future

Goals for the future
More travel and more pussy
No time like the present

SVU

BFF

Lunch with BFF
IMO nothing comes close
IYKWIM

Ian Row

Beta Brandis

Beta Brandis
A meta idiot
Mega funny

Ian Row

Workplace affection
There's a time for hand on thigh
Not now

Ian Row

A celebratory haiku

18C stays
A victory for uncommon sense
Love, the people

Ian Row

Communal chocolate

Communal chocolate
Who cares about the cocoa?
Confectionery

Ian Row

Big boy

When I said 'big boy'
I meant 'you're my main man'
not 'XXL' man

Ian Row

11 minutes
Oh Patron Saint of car parks
Shine your light on me

Ian Row

Coldest night this year.
Not two weeks since they declared
Winter was over.

KPM

Surreal afternoon nap

My sense of selves shift
Surreal afternoon nap
Time to change the meds

Ian Row

silent disco
keep your shit music
to yourself

Ian Row

Dog house

Dog house, nature strip.
Figured it was about time.
You never let go.

Ian Row

A Sunday off

A Sunday off, and
of all the things he must do
First this: Sweet F.A.

KPM

Letters

His letters she kept,
numbered, stamps removed. Twenty
years... he reads himself.

Ian Row

You said I said

You said I said
Didn't we have this discussion?
#awkward

Ian Row

Boyfriend

What's the point of
a boyfriend if he won't pick you
up from the station?

Ian Row

There's a first time

There's a first time for
everything and the right time
is always right now.

Ian Row

It's official

It's official: you
live too far away from me.
No one to play with.

Ian Row

Working to prevent
Death from HIV and AIDs
Killed by bombs instead

KPM

Looking for signs

Looking for signs
in a field of sunflowers
signs of life and death

Ian Row

Does it get colder
Than this Arctic Hell on Earth?
Melbourne in Winter

KPM

Lunch without my phone

Lunch without my phone
is a strange experience.
I might have to eat.

Ian Row

Help me, I am trapped
in a haiku factory
Save me before they

Virginia Gay

Tai chi class on the heath

Arthritis pricks my
thumbs... am I becoming
one more wicked witch?

Carol Ruth Kimmel

We're 8!

Happy Birthday to us and thank you to the following hot crossers for their contributions here and on the Facebook group page:

Anonymous

Catherine Austin

Leah Billeam

Eva Brookes

Cameron Clark

Chris Gill

Carol Ruth Kimmel

Neil Krieger

C.M.

Madge

Kenton Penley Miller

Jeff Patterson
Ian Row

Alan Summers

James Von Sutekh

Special appearances by Matsuo Basho and Kobyashi Issa

Random sighting

A random sighting
Sal Mineo lookalike
And then he was gone

Ian Row

My phone went off line

My phone went off line
Yesterday for no reason
Today it is back???

James Von Sutekh

TVP

It looks like chicken
Textured vegetable protein
It tastes like tofu

Ian Row

Spot Haiku 38 Part 2

i. Workshop
"One thing 'bout yourself"
"I'll show you mine, you show yours"
My heart on my sleeve

Ian Row

ii. Illusion
No optical drives
Apple thinks they're obsolete
No one thought to check?

Ian Row

iii. 
Thirtieth birthday
A Madonna-themed party
Expressing myself

Madge

iv.
Pigeons have now left
Exterminators made sure
Car clear of bird dirt

Cameron Clark

v.
Paper birches, years
Ago planted, all have grown
Scales like old dragons.

Carol Ruth Kimmel
[adapted from one Zhang Chinese calligraphy scroll]

vi. 
they said there'd be storms
blue skies and one toppled bin
anticlimactic!!

Catherine Austin 

vii. Poetry Contest at the Buddhist Temple -- guess the topic
Lecture on haiku
Reining in the wandering mind
Must write about boats

Carol Ruth Kimmel

Spot Haiku 38 Part 1

i.
I just made a cake
With olive oil and cocoa
Experimental

Catherine Austin

ii.
I'm very confused
What is this thing called World Cup?
Can I drink from it?

Neil Krieger

iii.
Third Sunday in June
Young father carries his son
Singing as he walks

Carol Ruth Kimmel

iv.
these days he leaves me
flowers under my wiper
say I do? I did

Ian Row

Mismatched Pyjamas

mismatched pyjamas
the living room's red carpet
trending this season

Ian Row

Rebecca Ferguson haiku

I hope I hope I
hope I hope I hope I hope
hope life treat you good...

Ian Row

Updating the blog

Updating the blog
Bad, bad administrator
Soon my will be done

Ian Row

B+

B+, B-
Fact: I'm not exceptional
That will have to do

C.M.

Redemption

redemption - a debt
to be paid. the payment made,
blemished forever.

Anonymous

Cool November day

Cool November day
His jacket drapes her shoulders
And love comes knocking

Eva Brookes

Wretched nights sleeps

Wretched nights sleep cheats
me of recovery
Dark rings under eyes

Kenton Penley Miller

My fucking car keys

my fucking car keys
here one minute gone the next
a senior moment

Ian Row

Library cafe

Library cafe-
we swap lost key stories
as my coffee cools

Alan Summers

White Dust Ghosts* (Series)

waking the kraken
this irregular sonnet
of men and angels

childhood kiss 
the shadow of gypsophila 
in the wheel

blue sky rain
the sunshine leaks
from pavements

leaves begin to fall
this face too evolves 
from fish

bomber moon–
all those hiding places
within you

hee, ba, coo, sha
even the name suggests peace
Nagasaki anniversary

Alan Summers

*There are people who survived the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In Japanese, the atomic bomb survivors are known as Hibakusha, some are still alive and share their experiences in the hope of peace and the abandonment of nuclear weapons. This is the 68th anniversary of atomic bombing on Nagasaki, August 9th 1945

Counter, baby mouse

Counter, baby mouse
Crunching on dry spaghetti
Cute, and then I screamed

Carol Ruth Kimmel

The word for today

cease to resist an
opponent - capitulate
the word for today

Ian Row

What's left is now right

What's left is now right
Sans serif font, extra gaps
Facebook's fresh changes

Kenton Penley Miller

You will not stain me

you will not stain me
claim my mind, use up my time
that's all you're having

Ian Row

A moody sunset

a moody sunset
precursor to sweet morning
long distracted night

Ian Row

Bittersweet trigger

bittersweet trigger
textbook, the chain reaction
breathe in Frank Ocean

Ian Row

Today tomorrow

fark it's still today
keep thinking it's tomorrow
feels like tomorrow

Ian Row

Gentrification

Gentrification
People gotta live somewhere
Just not here

Ian Row

False starts

the new year's false starts
the shine was an illusion
is clarity truth?

Ian Row

Lazarus, rising

Lazarus, rising
Undo myself, if I could
Who might we have been

Ian Row

High above our heads
Mountains of Washtenaw Street
Shovelled, piled-up snow.

Carol Ruth Kimmel

Were I there right now

Were I there right now
I'd hush you with my nose kiss;
Impose you a dance

Jeff Patterson

In my new clothing

In my new clothing
I feel so different, I must
look like someone else.

Matsuo Bashō (1644 - 1694)

New Year's Day

New Year's Day
everything is in blossom!
I feel about average

Kobayashi Issa (1763 - 1827)

Whatever

the word 'whatever'
cute/contentious but deadly
if/when misconstrued

Ian Row

Year's end & Along my journey

Year’s end, all 
corners of this 
floating world, swept

Along my journey
through this transitory world
new year's housecleaning

Matsuo Bashō  (1644 - 1694)

I've drunk too much
Garden is full of Triffids
I really don't care.

James Von Sutekh

Admittedly, I'm
mad, admitting that you can
harden and excite

Jeff Patterson

Postcards never sent

Postcards never sent
Moments best not remembered
Writing history

Ian Row