Young girl contemplates
an ornamental sundial
Weather forecast: cloud

Ian Row

days kicking nighttime
open car windows spill rap and
sidewalks show some skin

Patrick McCormick

Irekae haiku 2/2

i love you so much
I'm going to write a haiku
let the world know

Neil Krieger

Irekae haiku 1/2

i hate you so much
I'm going to write a haiku
let the world know

Neil Krieger

Twitter followers
I don't care that you're a band
I'll keep you

Ian Row

A haiku about identity

Who are you, really
the main you are now, and then
present day post gay

Chris Gill and Ian Row

Doctor's waiting room
A young boy on mother's lap
Forty years ago

Ian Row

by Judy Horacek
submitted by Kenton Penley Miller

on the Greyhound bus
rendezvous with freedom
making deals with God

Dawn Mok

Bare reaching Elm waits
Tender pale green Plane Tree sprouts
Flowering Plum is!

Chris Gill

Hide if you must but
enjoy the sunshine even
from inside said Spring

Ian Row

Drawn from across town
a hall crowded with flowers
orchid society

Chris Gill

Image by Chris Gill

Is it approval
something else she seeks the man
is a block of ice

Ian Row

Inevitable
Things fade when in sun too long
Overexposure

Ian Row

Listen: http://bit.ly/1nUNlY1
@Lidogotsongs @ZHUmusik

He seemed asleep as
The waves kissed his tiny form
We all saw our child

Catherine Austin

like the spider web
the future
snagged in my hair

Angie LaPaglia
@myearthgirl

ivy tightens
round the fence post
growing to love her

John Hawk
@haikuhawk

Dough incorrectly
incorporated can rise
to the occasion

Ian Row

Image by Ian Row

Pork and prawn dumplings
Ten pieces for nine ninety
They were fried of course

Ian Row

Image by Ian Row

Fear the Walking Dead
or ... go to another, more
cheerful movie

Carol Ruth Kimmel

People you love die
But others you will yet love
Are being born

Kenton Penley Miller

The cat flap was shut.
The sun was out but the flap
was shut. Not happy.

Charlie

Image by Ian Row

Morning-eyed girl child
Finds a seat on the six-five
Braids aren't messy yet

Alison Lester

a rain smeared window
he was all tears
and no action

Andrew Rossiter
@coffeeperc

Is the moon full now?
I will howl and howl all night.
I am now a wolf

Haiku Pippa-Dog
@HaikuPippa

Calendar haiku: September

Warehouses in a row -
behind them is a road where
swallows come and go

Buson (1716 - 1784)

Artwork: Urayasu (1951)
by Yoshida Toshi (1911-1995)

No, not ready yet
Regular toast. Baked beans.
NO avocado.

Charlie.

Group of thuggish louts.
Stop to help old folk from train.
People really care.

Kenton Penley Miller

He secretly sips.
From the hidden VB can.
Old man's train ride vice.

Kenton Penley Miller

peekaboo
before her nap
day moon

Dave Read
@AsSlimAsImBeing

My student... his Mom
didn't love him much... after
the stepfather came

Carol Ruth Kimmel

by Akira the Don
from http://akirathedon.com

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

Ian Row

Living by the book
Exception made for a friend
Bending of a rule

Ian Row

Sourced from Jason Calvert
from http://crankycalvert.com

One point one million
followers so why are you
following me?

Ian Row

I am in my room
Both my ginger cats are here
Life could be much worse

James Sutekh

First the car park then
the train home, now the cafe.
Sightings of the ex.

Ian Row

by Karen O'Leary from The Sound of Poetry Review

A haiku for going to work today

Sourced from the Internet

Just a casual look
I felt the woman judge me
by my shopping bag

Ian Row

Phone line silhouette
a bleak warning to others
flying fox - doesn't

Chris Gill

Photo by Chris Gill

Deep in the woods

by Peter Bakowski @PeterBakowski

One theory

by Peter Bakowski @PeterBakowski

Camden Street blossoms
The shy plums' blushing flowers
Spring gets a headstart

Ian Row

Postcards never sent
Moments best not remembered
Writing history

Ian Row

A haiku about election time

Election time, and
Tweede Dum and you know who
spin us 'til we puke.

Chris Gill

silent disco
keep your shit music
to yourself

Ian Row

Library music
Way too loud for this Grandma
Giving music space

Sue Ficke Siebert

A season's neglect
The courtyard is a jungle
Come let's go inside

Ian Row

A Laundry Day Haiku

Drowning in laundry
Too many clothes per capita
Unsustainable

Ian Row

Because my life sucks
I'll make your life suck as well
Karmic lollipop

Dawn Mok

'i' before 'e'
except after 'c'
with exceptions

Ian Row

In the restaurant
Would you like a table? No.
A lamp for 2 please.

HaikuD2
@HaikuD2

Friend request. Young kid.
Africa. A scam, you say.
Cute. Not cute enough.

Ian Row

my previous life
an ill fit, a size too small
my well is empty

Ian Row

she catches herself
talking to herself - been while
since we last spoke

Ian Row

Calendar Haiku: August 2016

There is not a place
to throw the used bath noises -
insect noises!

Onitsura (1660 - 1738)

Artwork: Seated Woman,
twentieth century, woodcut on paper by
Ohira Kasen (1900 - 1983)

a broken teapot
can't be fixed won't throw it out
until I'm ready

Ian Row

'Living document'

Run the risk you'll be written

out of history

Ian Row

Bitter winds shift
So too our hearts
As we grant love leave

I, Lady Bird
@_iLadyBird

trouble free cancer exam
on the way home
I acquire a diary

Minako Noma, 2011
Matsuyama, Japan

Tweeted by Haiku North America 
@haikunortham

I'm not here for your
amusement; Oh FFS.
Go on, make it quick.

Charlie

In Winter, it's hard
To recall a summer's warmth.
Old age forgets youth.

Judge The Poet
@judgethepoet

How poignant it is
A hoarder in denial
Says he can help you

Alison Lester

Black bard on the street
handing out hip hop lyrics
busking poetry

Carol Ruth Kimmel

Long slow desire
The flesh is willing, unfolds
Old habits die hard

Ian Row

Horoscope

Today's horoscope
A lifespan, life's plan, threatened
What if I said 'no'?

Ian Row

drought tolerant plants
gifts for an estranged mother
zero maintenance

Ian Row

Born a GMO
Natural like polyester
Innocent apples

Half Good Haiku
@HGHaiku

Exhausted by work
Crashing on  Friday night.
Restore me weekend!

Kenton Penley Miller

Charity chocolate

charity chocolate
only one box, only because I
thought he could be God

Ian Row

What made her different 
Is that she arrived as one
And not as many

HaikuD2
@HaikuD2

Ice cream disaster
An oil spill of French Vanilla
No complaints from cat

Ian Row

hornets nests
All my nightmares
learning to fly

Reka Jellema
@RekaJellema

Umpty-ump years old
and I still find myself just
a work of progress

Carol Ruth Kimmel

broken door bells
hidden behind each door
broken lives

Haiku Moments
@daviddayson

Hush now, Jealousy
Your music: so sad; so shrill
Hush now as I sing

Jeff Patterson

I dreamt of sunshine,
but woke to the sound of rain.
Can I dream all day?

Chris Gill

Smokers hunched over
Their cigarettes in the hope
Their ends will warm them

Kenton Penley Miller

Between where you are
and where you need to be
one dangerous step

Chris Gill

Aphrodisiac
Japanese books of all kinds
Kinokuniya

Carol Ruth Kimmel

for Leah, William Schoen, Laura and Dwight

Shadows make more legs
on non web-spinning spiders
claiming her new house

Carol Ruth Kimmel

for Linda Rogers

Words with friends

Words with friends
I smell a word generator
Silence with friends

Ian Row

Home

This house is my home
I think I'll stay forever
You are like my house

Ian Row

dementia unit
the old therapy dog
remembers everyone

Joan Prefontaine 
@haikueveryday

My niece sleeps like she's
Halfway through a discus throw
Or figure skating

Alison Lester

empty frames hanging
family history gone
staring - ugly walls

Mandy Bontius @AylaMey

After all
this time -
butterflies

Ian Row

I dream of father

We're hanging a framed picture

So much space to fill

Ian Row

you are no longer
the source of my happiness
and unhappiness

Dawn Mok

A haiku for Dawn Fraser

well well well
why don't you tell us
what you really feel

Ian Row

platform number one
'stand behind the yellow line'
a couple suck face

Ian Row

Calendar haiku: July 2015

Through the town

a little stream is flowing - 

willow branches hanging down

Shiki (1867 - 1902)

Artwork: Benkei Bridge, 1940
by Yoshida Toshi (1911 - 1995)

walking down the street
last night I saw a fox
using the crosswalk

Rosemary
@haikutaxi

And then we were 9!

Happy Birthday to us and thank you heaps to everyone who hot crossed for us over the last 12 months. Here's the blogroll for 2014/2015:

Alison Lester
Anna Grace
Anna Hyland
Anonymous
Buson
Carol D'Cruz
CRK/Carol Ruth Kimmel
Cesca Alice
Charlie (the cat)
Chris Gill
Dawn Mok
Douglas Martin
Gonsui
Grant Lee Phillips
Hashin
Ian Row
James Sutekh
Jeff Patterson
Jenny Morris
Jim McKay
KPM/Kenton Penley Miller
Kito
Leah Billeam
Mary K Witte
Michael Leunig
Michael Stipe
Natsume Soseki
Onitsura
Orlando
Ramon Loyola
Ratsentsu
Rick Roth
Rocket
Rocky
Sarah Rae
Sharon Lee
Soin
SVU
Teishitsu
Tom Gilroy
Virginia Gay
William Schoen

and then some days with
out any clear reasons why
it's just easier

Ian Row

When deciding to
play the game it is best to
first consider the prize

Ian Row

On the opposite
ends of the tram. Did you 
see me not see you?

Ian Row

Shopping mall busker
in his bed, his curled up dog
Harmony vocal

Ian Row