Dried flecks of cat food
Circling the rim of the cup
Oh - it's your oatmeal.

Guhan Subramaniam

Merciless summer

Merciless summer
Cat motionless on floorboards
Too hot to cuddle

Ian Row

Spot Haiku 23 Part 2 of 4

i.
"Sick in bed" torpor
Earth moved - I didn't care
"body found with cats"

Cathy Dineen

ii.
This encrouching haze
Through these days that leave me hazed
Stupid old and phased

Simon Patience

iii.
ex-boyfriend shows up
remorse and apologies.
where is my backbone?

Cesca Alice

iv.
Pope goes the weasel
pawning false hope for lost souls
a man and his myths

Ian Row

Spot Haiku 23 Part 1 of 4

a true anecdote from the bushfires

i.
a fiery hell
everything seem'd burnt and gone
but the cat came back

ii.
and the cat came back
the vet tended free of charge
burnt and bloody paws

iii.
out of disaster
the milk of human kindness
a touch of heaven

Leah Billeam

Your new kitty kat
Thomas is NOT a cat's name
It is now

for chris

Ian Row

Speed Round 11

i.
oh, it's far too hot
for doing speed round haiku
doh, now i'm sweaty

Jason Rostant

ii. ode to www.evanthornley.com
bollocks the public
I'm in it for the fois gras
let them eat cake mate

Patrick McCormick

iii.
breathing in the heat:
breathing out the cool change air -
accordion cat

Cathy Dineen

iv.
Lying warm under
her frayed khaki patchwork rug
this Summer country.

Chris Gill

v.
hey buddy, yeah you
aren't you a little old
to be skateboarding?

Ian Row

Responsorial haiku

in response to Dead on the doorstep [26.06.08]

What maudlin rubbish!
Dead cats should be for breakfast,
not soppy poems!

Terry the Thylacine

Not good enough

Shop sells no cat food.
Chicken luncheon slice instead.
Puss turns up her nose.

Chris Gill

A Haiku about a Dream about Fission

I dreamt of fission -
Binary fission of cats
Multiple Arnolds!!

Cathy Dineen

Damp with morning dew,
the earth exhales a sweet scent.
But then the cat shits.

Chris Gill