Facing greater fear...

Facing greatest fear
And being greeted by Love:
Miraculous shit

Jeff Patterson

Winter

Winter: a stiff neck
feels the season acutely
as well as my age.

Ian Row

A haiku about summertime

Summertime, life here -
Birds, cicadas, flowers sing -
Light, in full effect

Jeff Patterson

No more at peace...

No more at peace - or
Found or Better than before -
Still...I wash ashore

Jeff Patterson

An effective haiku

The adjective for
'efficacy' is not...
'efficus'.

Ian Row

(Special credit: Rhys Benbow)

Subconsciously...

Subconsciously
stockpiling soy milk
Suspect

Ian Row

My walk home last night

the moon lit my way
twas nearly full
will be winter soon

Jane Frances Fey

A haiku about proofreading

proof read all haikus
an extra syllable makes
a pretty poem

April Norcross

Mounting in public

Mounting in public
Young couple suck face in park
Making me hungry

Ian Row

PR

You make me look good
Your weblinks for my networks
PR you can't buy

Ian Row

My tears from heaven

If nothing else, think
of me when you see, hear, feel
and smell the raindrops

Natalie Au

Lush Jacaranda
Branches move like peacock plumes
Squally autumn winds

Eva Brookes

Liberals are evil,
And Labor has lost its way,
Let's vote for The Greens.

James Von Sutekh

Jericho - ghostly
Oak and faded photographs.
One rusted gravesite.

Catherine Austin

Snake

Wanna see my snake?
Dude has a Diamond python!
Not on the first date.

Ian Row

Warbling red bird
Suit of snow upon your back
Rise and shake away

Annie Jeffries

My nose and his foot
Two cripples in Charles Street
Looking for our bin...

Catherine Austin

"B"

"B"

Hung the moon and stars,
I know he did! And if not...
he was in on it

Jeff Patterson

Voices in her head

Voices in her head
This is why she plays music
Someone else's song

Ian Row

Rival

The rival returns
Pushes buttons, flicks switches
A circuit breaker

Ian Row

So many "seers,"
so few "likes" - luckily, I
love my every line

Jeff Patterson

proof read all haikus
an extra syllable makes
a pretty poem

April Norcross

41 outside

41 outside
Inside it's like a resort
Day at the office

Ian Row

o despicable
self indulgent creature who
tries to sell me things

April Norcross

Living and dying

living and dying
every breath - inhale, exhale
live and let limbo

Dawn Mok and Ian Row

It's a school night

It's a school night but
I know how you like to live
dangerously

Ian Row

Winter, north or south?
Both unloved - still, I'd rather have
Yellow grass than snow

Jeff Patterson

Perth airport bustle
Rested but eager for home
FIFO for Xmas

Jason Rostant

Under my skin

Under my skin, your
finger as an antenna
sparks my yearning soul

Spudnik Nebulanut

Stone-handed partners
Sing north of the horizon
Music but a breath

Spudnik Nebulanut

10.43pm ~
Last bus 10pm
Screw you, suburbia!
Not even a cab

10.52pm ~
Rain stops, I walk home
careful not to step on snails
crossing the pavement.

11.08pm ~
This will mend my back
unfold my crumpled body
placate the tetchy spine

Ian Row

Melaleuca

melaleuca blooms
plain jane recasts herself
shiny honeyed summer

Ian Row

No crusty baguettes

no crusty baguettes
most people don't dig hard bread
gourmet delusion

Ian Row

Form versus function

form versus function
perfect bound or saddle stitch
that is the question

Ian Row

oh michael jackson!
in nineteen-eighty I would
have spent time with you.

Jeanne Frayne

Seeking the infinite

seeking the finite

brings me full circle back

to the infinite

Dawn Mok

Curse you snooze button!

Curse you snooze button!

Tempting siren of deceit

Now I'm late again.

James Von Sutekh

Grace lives in the space

Grace lives in the space

sincere smiles are found that

at one time held tears

Jeff Patterson

Speed Round 22

i.

Bravery, be mine

Not by pill or liquid - no

Rise from the heart, true

Jeff Patterson

ii.

Deceased estate! Yay!

Supply chain of pre-loved goods.

Must contain my joy.

Ian Row

iii.

You again

Causing my reflex to flex

Hard habit to break

Neve

iv.

Continental cake

Twice the cream on the corner

Death by sweet tooth

Ian Row

v.

When truck and train meet

Both road and rail become blocked

Phew! No-one was hurt.

Chris Gill

vi.

After forever

I find you; seeing you was

on my bucket list

Ian Row

vii.

Midst tumultuous

Change and hope and chance events

I sit – Buddha-like

Cathy Dineen

Like a sweet dessert -
All my moves, my words with friends -
You, I save for last

Jeff Patterson

Subconsciously
stockpiling soy milk
Suspect

Ian Row

Friends to non-lovers,
Boys to men, soul-bound brothers -
How far, you and I!

Jeff Patterson

What's a nice car like
you doing being driven...
Northern suburbs skank.

Ian Row

i.

i tried but couldn't

capture your loneliness and

your pain in three lines

ii.

your body fails you

your mind a mischievous twin

anger, then madness 

Ian Row

A blog of old signs
I found, and knew at once for
whom this was a sign.

Chris Gill

i.
unconditional
timely reminders denote
the law between us

ii.
sea shells and sponges
beaches i dont remember
souvenir or proof

Ian Row

Spring Surprise

i.
Officially dead
The wattle beaten, broken
Howling gale force winds

ii.
Surprise
That spring could be so
Destructive

 

Ian Row

Two haiku written just after the Hot Cross Haiku anniversary event at Lady Bower Kitchen

i.
Noice Reservoir shops
Love-in my 2 dollar treasures
brekkie of champions

Karen McVean 

ii.

'breakfast of champions'

resentful presentation

meatballs by vegan

Ian Row

thank god it was you
anyone else i'd be fried
egg shell in my cake


Ian Row

Stormy August sky
still accumulating more
tumultuous clouds

Carol Ruth Kimmel

We're six!

Shout-outs to the following Hot Crossers:

Alan Summers

Annie Jeffries

Ao-Suzume

Cathy Dineen

Carol Ruth Kimmel

Chris Gill

Dawn Mok

Gillena Cox

Guhan Subramaniam

Ian Row

James Fetherson

James Von Sutekh

Jason Rostant

Jeff Patterson

Jenny Morris

Karen McVean

Kenton Miller

Megan Maley

Natalie Au

Neil Krieger

Sophie Buchanan

Simon Patience

Sue Ficke Siebert

Violette Rose-Jones

 

And to everyone who’s been following the blog and everyone who’s 

part of the Facebook group, thank you for your continued support.

Teddy Pendergrass

Soul man sings from heart, and mind

Sensibility

Ian Row

Regret is to the mind

what guilt is to the soul, what 

cancer is to flesh 

Denise Barrett

Spot Haiku 37 - Part 2

i.

Grad-u-ate today

Enlightenment, growth and change

Advent of fresh start

Megan Maley

ii.

sea shells and sponges

beaches i  dont remember

souvenir or proof

Ian Row

Spot Haiku 37 - Part 1

i. 

wedding in autumn

falling leaves like confetti

a bridesmaid's bouquet

Ian Row

ii. A Glimpse of Autumn

Scarlet, crimson leaves

float to the dance floor and waltz

in the autumn breeze

Natalie Au

iii.

this is the last year

her leaves will reach for the roof

the dying begins

Ian Row

Participation

Participation
Isn't always saying yes
Learn priorities

Jason Rostant

Library music

Library music
Way too loud for this grandma
Giving music space

Sue Ficke Seibert

My whites, freshly washed
hung out a chill Winter's day
clean & frost-sparkly!

Chris Gill

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

Black reconstruction
African slaves carnival
Let there be music

Again

Rebellion and Dance
No sacrilege this worship
Let there be music

Again

Calypso satire
Protest celebration soars
Let there be music

Again

Annie Jeffries

Perth, WA – Part 3 of 3

i.

Your Catholic ways

may bring you closer to God

A wedge between us

ii.

Lost in Mandurah

A country town conspires

to entrap tourists

iii.

You, me, here, right now

Once upon a second life

Us in first person

iv.

Getting to know you

all over again – a place

we’ve never been

v.

Windmills win over

plastic flowers, live bouquets

Freo cemetery

Ian Row

Perth, WA – Part 2 of 3

i.

Norfolk Island pines

as Cottesloe as John Street's

eggs benedict

ii.

How do you explain

a lapse of eighteen years?

Life went on.

iii.

Long slow desire

The flesh is willing, unfolds

Old habits die hard

iv.

To get to LA

all her teddy bears must go

Melville car boot sale

v.

“This goes with your jeans….”

Her sales pitch is pitch perfect

A compliment paid

vi.

Busker

Xavier Rudd soundalike

Who are you?

Ian Row

Perth, WA – Part 1 of 3

i.

Going west; coming

back to where we started

a lifetime ago

ii.

A streetscape unchanged

Pizza Express, my old house

Points on my mind map

iii.

Day one, Friday night

Steve - my Air BNB host

Fish between friends

Ian Row

In the moment, sense
flees and enchantment enthralls.
Luminosity

Annie Jeffries

New clock radio
Enigmatic Instructions
Another late start

James Von Sutekh

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

Guhan Subramaniam

Submitted by Kenton Miller

Spot Haiku 36

i.
Autumn rains
Soak into woollen jackets
Risotto tonight

Cathy Dineen

ii.
Angst as things collide,
In haste I may have bitten
More than I can chew.

James Fetherson

iii.
Scissor Sisters' new song
It's incredibly campy
Fantastically so

Simon Patience

iv.
killing me softly
with double stuffed Oreos
slowy and surely

Ian Row

v.
trip-trip tripping the
anesthetic fantastic
a sub-consc tourist

Dawn Mok

vi. Blame
You were reckless with
my heart. The damage you’ve done,
you thoughtless fugger.


Natalie Au

no goodbyes
but we had months of Sundays and
forever ago.

Ian Row

"We'll miss you heaps, Bounce"

traffic lights changing
mad dashing against the red
roadkill wannabes

Kenton Penley Miller

Last night's yellow moon

last night's yellow moon
coquettish, her face behind
laced curtains of cloud

Ian Row

My tears from heaven

If nothing else, think
of me when you see, hear, feel
and smell the raindrops.

Natalie Au

On Sydney Harbour
pleasure craft must give way to
us manly fairies.

Chris Gill

Everyday scenes
on your way to the airport
seem precious and new.

Chris Gill

Tram stop, 6.18pm

Kate Middleton texts
Pol Pot in a Mazda 1
weird sights in Melbourne.

Jenny Morris

My take on KRudd

My take on KRudd:

If this were Florence
In the time of the Borgias -
He'd be dead by dawn

Cathy Dineen

How to write haikus
Counting syllables all night
But the art don't come.

Kenton Penley Miller

Note to self:
I must not drop the ‘c’ bomb
You are what you swear

Ian Row

haiku writers block
scenery, imagery
nothing comes to mind

Neil Krieger

Spot Haiku 35 Part 2 of 2

"That's Melbourne for ya"

i.
Raise your hand for help
In event of emergency...
Better to be white.

ii.
Fair go or fair game
At this point in history...
Our new whipping boy

Ian Row

Spot Haiku 35 Part 1 of 2

Box-fan afternoon -
Heavenly hum; carefree breeze
Lounging, like I love

Jeff Patterson

Sometimes there’s a warm moment in winter in Chicago:

January thaw
In a phalanx, paddling
Goose armada sails

Carol Ruth Kimmel

Unit 6

Unit 6 lays down
its slab; the days of parking
outside are over.

Ian Row

Sunday reunion

Sunday reunion
Three of us discuss pretence
Northcote vegan cafe

Ian Row

Merciless summer

Merciless summer
Cat motionless on floorboards
Too hot to cuddle

Ian Row

A haiku about Womadelaide

no bongos for me
the endless percussiveness
Nowomadelaide

Ian Row

Cold sore eruption
You're a dirty dirty girl
No husband for you

Ian Row

moonlit frangipani —
kissing the white part
of her thighs

Violette Rose-Jones

A haiku written on a warm December day in Chicago

bouncing up and down
cheerfully, Canada geese
blue waves of the lake

Carol Ruth Kimmel

above his bed
glow in the dark stars;
I count them

Violette Rose-Jones

House shares a secret

house shares a secret
the ceiling painted over
glow in the dark stars

Ian Row

The heat brings it home

the heat brings it home
can't move and outrun your mind
house in disorder

Ian Row

A thief is a thief

A thief is a thief
Can’t even trust a brother
Jaryd Killop steals

Ian Row

i.
Ugly migrant child
evokes lesser sympathy
bright local babies

ii.
7.48
no seats on city bound train
suburb spillover

Ian Row

Spot Haiku 34

i.
close air hold its own
in winter's final weather
pale light breaks through glass

Catherine Dineen

ii.
In Australia
my right to equality
is traded for votes.

Chris Gill

iii.
Control the ego
Protect it and subsume it
Looking for balance

Simon Patience

iv.
rain reigns night and day
tyranny of wet and grey
when'll you go away?

Dawn Mok

v.
Everyday is Christmas
Every night is New Year’s eve
Sade in my house

*contains a lyric written by Sade Adu and Martin Ditcham

Ian Row

vi.
drunk and fat I see
it must be that time of year
Jesus' birthday

Catherine Dineen

New York traffic jam
Sun pouring through the window
Sweating my ass off

Neil Krieger

so it's come to this...
life in a fragile time;
drinking in secret

Catherine Dineen

Change comes, but slowly -
Three steps forward, two steps back
Its sweet time, taken

Jeff Patterson

Sweet, foreign crushes
on number-poets happen -
Strange perhaps, but true

Jeff Patterson

these socks

these socks aren't mine
must be dad's; think twice - oh hell
walking in your shoes

Ian Row

Sorrow

Her beautiful hands
Told me her story, as they
Swept away her tears

Natalie Au