founding father dies
we don't speak ill of the dead
silence speaks volumes

Ian Row

Time will come when they
Realize I'm a precious
Historical resource

CRK

Durkheim and Paglia
Paper lacks references
A recurring dream

Ian Row

the random talent 
in the North makes up for
its isolation

Ian Row

Unsubscribe me
The Dalai Lama
People change

Ian Row

Hey. You. I'm dying.
Ok. But I've sprained something.
Carry me.

Charlie

Gargantuan spider
lives in the glove compartment
loves D'Angelo

Ian Row

Some events can change
everything you thought you knew...
rewriting the past.

CRK

"Ciao Bella," the man
Said to my uncle, who was
both flattered, and not

CRK

Runny hot chilli
fills the bowl - and then the splash!
Damn lunchtime shirt stain

KPM

Russell Tovey Redux

Don't for a moment
confuse you self with courage
Hegemonic fag

Ian Row

@russelltovey

Was it pride, relief?
Either way you're a lucky man
and not one of us.

Ian Row

Calendar haiku: March 2015

As on the plum comes
blossom after blossom, so
comes the warmth of Spring.

Ratsentsu (1653 - 1708)

Peacock by Tsuchiya Rakusen (Rakuzen)
(1896 - 1976)

Won't give his number
Last line of defence before
his iron dome

Ian Row

Leftovers salvaged
Tiger prawns, red curry paste
Almost red curry

Ian Row

Disinherited
"I am not your Dad,"he said
"You are not my son."

CRK

If I Cantaloupe
Olive fruitfully at home
Where can a Mango?

Chris Gill

300 dollars?
To fix the water heater?
Who needs to shower?

Charlie

The places I've been
Places I'll never ever
Someone else's life

Ian Row

Note to self - 
You cannot vacuum the cat
But you can try

Ian Row

Crazy cab driver
Pencil short of a pencil case
Somebody's father

Ian Row

strong death wish
some days so hard so easy
to slip away


Anonymous

Authentic Tony
I am sure what is worse
The devil you know

Ian Row

Calendar haiku: February 2015

No sky and no ground - 
Only the snowflakes that
fall without ceasing

Hashin (1864 - ?)

February, Winter Sky, 1924 by
Yamamura Toyonari (1885 - 1942)

A Facebook friend dies
Someone I have never met
Superficial guilt

Ian Row

How about this
Bigger than the one at home
Red brings out my eyes

Charlie

golden days like these
glow with possibility
catch my reflection

Ian Row

Peta's been busy
Tony's script passes muster
The head, not the heart

Ian Row

Short-term Moon

'Wednesdays free waxing'
Saturdays for shining bright
Waning on Sundays

Carol Ruth Kimmel

Icing on the cake
Space enough but not for you
A country flip flops

Ian Row

'Do not feed the birds'
Train station's a halfway house
for wayward seagulls

Ian Row

My black eyeliner
Highlights my eyelid wrinkles
That's the end of that

Alison Lester

'recurring dreams' nightmare
lingers long after the credits
the plot rethickens

Ian Row

What are you doing?
No, I don't want to cuddle.
Put some clothes on, please.

Charlie

Fleece blanket or cat
Static electricity
Stay away from me

Ian Row

Stall hands shout prices
Bustling, bargaining shoppers
Humanity thrives.

KPM

dual view desktop
the size of Manhattan
two fields of vision

Jenny Morris & Ian Row

The bitumen road
Pieces of broken mirror
The big sky, shattered

Ian Row

From my passing train
I see two random friends hug.
A glimpse of their joy.

KPM

She talks to herself
Tries to shake some sense of it
So close then she slips

Ian Row

could you park your
mid-life crisis somewhere else?
this spot's taken

Dawn Mok

sweaty train ride home
already behind schedule
feels even longer

Ian Row

A wind-bell tinkling,

hushed in the noon sun is now

a shelter for bees

Gonsui

From Haiku Harvest (1967) p27

The constant buzz of
Highway noise and ceiling fans
Singapore lament

Alison Lester

Calendar haiku: January 2015

The old year goes away - 
and the things it takes along,
what and what are they?

Soin (1605 - 1682)

Playing Battledore and Shuttlecock (1953) by
Shimura Tatsumi (1907 - 1980)

i.
In the choir loft
Sandwiches and coffee grabbed
Heav’n and nature sing

ii.
Anglican church so
High it was stratospheric
Christmas Eve incense

iii.
In spite of the worst
Christmas homily ever
Jesus Christ is born

Carol Ruth Kimmel

Fresh out of propane,
Bubba taps landfill methane.
Steaks taste recycled.

Mary K Witte
From Redneck Haiku

Your wired sex face
is very unattractive.
No, let me call you.

Rocky

You. Bore. Me.

Might feel different tomorrow.

Might not.

Ian Row

My dead mother
Frequents my mind
Wardrobe-changing season.

Natsume Soseki*

*Translated from the Japanese. From The Little Book of Zen

Wedding night fireworks
as Flo's ex-husband threatens
to bring back the kids

Mary K Witte

From Redneck Haiku

Huge cockroach scuttled

Across my naked foot once

It felt really nice

Alison Lester

Old love letters
Read quickly
and thrown out

From The Haiku Year (1998) p69

Environmental my ass
full of false claims
I'll compost your ads

From The Haiku Year (1998) p100

4WD drivers

don't thank you for giving way

Blind spot in their heads

Ian Row

Tuileries Garden-Jardin Des Tuileries

A lonely chair sits

In the Paris winter chill

Ouch my cold butt cheeks

Sharon Lee

A glimpse of beauty,

As I pass him standing there.

Snapshot of the mind.

KPM

Public, happy smile.

Meet and greet and then it's done.

Adrenalin crash.

KPM

Post-event haiku twinset

1.
By all accounts
it was a success yet I feel
un.ex.cep.tio.nal

2.
"You said that last year"
Every year I feel the same
A familiar friend

Ian Row

Many Mormons with

Luggage; their smiles were like soft

Moth wings on my face

Alison Lester

low-hanging dark thoughts

rotting before they ripen

fruitless suffering

Dawn Mok

Whirling lights panic

The preemptive siren wails

Midnight ambulance

Ian Row

2 of 2: Haiku by Uejima Onitsura (1660-1738)

It is nice to read
news that our spring rain also
visited your town

Onitsura

From Haiku Harvest (1962) p27

1 of 2: Haiku by Uejima Onitsura (1660-1738)

Come come! I call.
But the fireflies flash away
into the darkness

Onitsura

From Haiku Harvest (1962) p57

*Australia's Hottest Ginger Pet competition

"Validate me," said

the cat. "Let me be your king."

‪#‎shamelessplug*

Ian Row

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