Parenting is this:

Your son stars in school play so

You don't sleep a wink

Alison Lester

Mondays. Is there a

more cruel concept in the world?

Not enough coffee.

KPM

The following contains adult concepts.

Man with vagina.
What's seen cannot be unseen.
Who am I to judge?

Ian Row

Embrace tiger, then
Return to mountain... so I
Live another day.

Carol Ruth Kimmel

Saturday slowness
Sunshine and market shopping
Idle chats with friends

KPM

One for the public health researchers:

Damn Oxycontin

New survey module is crud

Useless bloody data

James Sutekh

What is it about
Fingernails? Fine fine fine fine
Fine fine fine TOO LONG!

Alison Lester

Bug Haiku 2

Pg 11 of Bug Haiku (1968) by J.W. Hackett

Bug Haiku 1

Pg 10 of Bug Haiku (1968) by J.W. Hackett

filling and folding
snot wontons in production
s'not for consumption

Dawn Mok

A haiku about the E- Class convertible (original version)

Swarovski aside

the car made sense: sense and

sensibility

Ian Row

My dog's pee sparkles
Bumping down the palm tree's base
Liquid tourmaline

Alison Lester

So many cars with
only one headlight tonight
They're winking at me

Alison Lester

When at home unwell
Your bed can become your world
Cut off from 'real life'

KPM

don't ask me to do
something you won't do for me
quid pro quo no go

Dawn Mok

I don't want to know
It's a school night for God's sake
Your fly is undone

Charlie

Classic hissy fit
Fine display, cathartic vent
Problem: she was right

Ian Row

Fearless careless words
roll off the tip of your tongue
on to my thick skin

Ian Row

Lunch at Don Don
Eenie meenie mini mo
Sashi Don, thanks

Ian Row

You make it so hard
Sometimes you make it so hard
So hard to love you

Ian Row

Caterpillar

Caterpillar

Vandals in nature's garden

Above the law

Ian Row

En route to point A
Passengers cackle, match the
Noises in my head

Ian Row

Running out of time
Today waits till tomorrow
then yesterday's gone

Ian Row

Two online chats while

Speaking on the phone as well

Multi-talk-tasking 

KPM

that brief moment when


warm sunshine offers comfort


piece of future mind

Ian Row

Interstellar in haiku

The earth is dying.

Look, black hole! Time-space mind fuck.

Love, will find a way.

Ian Row

Leftovers for lunch
Noodles once tasty now limp
listless and boring

Ian Row

seeking the finite
brings me full circle back
to the infinite

Dawn Mok

Do you have to go?
I'll have no one to play with.
Can we Skype later?

Charlie

Don't judge me. You know
it's instinctual. Remember,
I know how you live.

Charlie

Grace lives in the space
sincere smiles are found that
at one time held tears

Jeff Patterson

Mystery dining
Free meals bought with time and a
12 page questionnaire

Ian Row

Melbourne's streets empty
As heat toasts and bakes the air
Not even Summer

KPM

Sashay, chantay,
Chantay chantay chantay
You better work!

Ian Row

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
Lost wallet Come on universe
Meet me halfway

Ian Row

Mistook your dog for
a baboon. "Baboon off lead"
makes better story.

Ian Row

Fifty two today.
I can't admit to an age
That I don't look yet.

KPM

new dirty secret
and today's saving grace -
discounted cheesecake

Ian Row

Air BNB host
'No brown people on our sheets'
Put that in your ad

Ian Row

I frightened myself
Zero to hundred in no time
Hate being bullied

Ian Row

Rule: move to the left
And no need for attitude
You will get what's yours

Ian Row

Serendipity
All fits so well together
Fucking perfectly

Carol D'Cruz

Homemade risotto
Thou shalt not help the diet
when one eats for two

Ian Row

Grey cloud and drizzle
Oh you are such a temptress
Chucking a sickie

Ian Row

Adelaide is hot,
They say. It always was here.
Not in October.

KPM

Good morning, sunshine.
How can anyone sleep so much?
You. Are. Worse. Than. Me.

Charlie

Found while unpacking:
Haiku about haiku, on 
a card from a friend

Anna Hyland

power steering chick

death by reversing mazda

power in wrong hands

Ian Row

Nothing says "I love
you" quite like locks on a bridge,
flowers on windscreen

Ian Row

Piglet and Winnie
the Pooh live again when I
read to my grandson

Carol Ruth Kimmel

Yes I'm comfortable
There is one thing you can do
A G & T thanks

Charlie

A haiku about healing

Time not spent at work
Lazy, indulgent weekends
Heal like nothing else.

KPM

Grey underbelly

grey underbelly
of this evening's cloud no match
for the brilliant sun

Ian Row

#thingsyoudneverhearmesay

"Call you when I'm done

at the gym" #thingsyoud

neverhearmesay

Ian Row

Sign advertising
Latin School of Chicago
Back of ghetto bus

Carol Ruth Kimmel

You're in uniform.
At the laundromat? It's 4.
Teenage girl meets boy.

Ian Row

A haiku about Peta and Khloe

Peta and Khloe
I think they're the same person
#justsayin

Ian Row

A haiku about Olivia Newton-John

66 today
#youretheonethatiwant
Hoo-oo-ooh

Ian Row

A haiku about desire

for KPM

Do you want or need
On a scale of 1 to 10
Desire unpacked.

Ian Row

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