Haiku on a train 1/3

train conversations
nerds discuss body types
deconstruct maleness

Ian Row

Mother's Birthday

1/2

my mother's birthday
been meaning to call her all day
how much are thoughts worth

Ian Row

2/2

my mother's as well
I called her first thing today
she was pleased I did

Carol D'Cruz

Sun, then cold showers.
Melting hot, wind and then rain.
Melbourne in the Spring.

Kenton Penley Miller

Gray geese just standing
around honking and talking
cold November rains

Carol Ruth Kimmel

Predictive function: Curiosities

'elect' is 'eject'
'zeal' is 'weak', 'jazz' is 'lazy'
'us' turns to 'versus'

Ian Row

the real question is,
can you have too much mango?
asked the apricot

Ian Row

ligurian bees
the other side of the world
living in exile

Ian Row

This morning's new gift
from the ornamental pear
tree by my front door

Carol Ruth Kimmel

Image by Carol Ruth Kimmel

Irrepressible
weeds burrow in from next door
the crippled neighbour

Ian Row

much needed rain
gardens, veggie patches, crops
the car gets a bath

Ian Row

Image by Ian

She's cooking tonight
Therapy as much as treat
Channeling mother

Ian Row

I don't believe you
I think YOU yelled at her first
Oh please you've got form

Charlie

Image by Ian Row

The wrong side of bed
Proof you can rewrite your day
The right kind of love

Ian Row

Make up your damn mind
Sometimes in life you shift gears
But your clutch smells burnt

J Rock
@fantastic413

quiet afternoon
we take separate paths
through the woods

South Tree
@southtree23

Image by South Tree

His tattooed sleeves
tell a story that's remotely
original 

Ian Row

So desperate for love.
Any man would do, could do
Come undone she did

Ian Row

Intimate moment
between athlete and medic
gentle hands on face

Alison Lester

Like good intentions
still sweet, but dropped and broken
Honey on the ground

Chris Gill

Image by Chris Gill

Hmm you look different
You shaved? New top? What is it?
OMG you're fat.

Charlie

Image by Ian Row

Mid arvo coffee
Ruined by speeding bogan
Magma and mag wheels

Ian Row

Menacing grey clouds.
Blink! An otter on its back.
The clouds touch their toes.

Ian Row

He walked the block each
night.. coveting all the homes
grander then his own

Carol Ruth Kimmel

"There is no one who
is just 'a loser in life'"
God says... All Souls' Day

Carol Ruth Kimmel

Tuesday to myself
Thank you to all the horses
Possibilities

Ian Row

When I'm not with you
I am someone else, someone
you've not met before

Ian Row

Arm wrestling with weeds
Wiser to the ways of thorns
Fallible weed mats

Ian Row

Calendar haiku: November

Coveted by all,
Turning into such beauty -
The falling red leaves

Shiko (1664 - 1731)

Long-Tailed Rooster by
Sekihen (active 1920s - 1930s)

Trick or treat
See that 'Do Not Knock' sign there?
'No fun' neighbours

Ian Row

Saturday drive by
On line with The Internet
Choons to cruise to

Ian Row

An old pair of jeans:
Will never see the other 
side of 32.

Ian Row

Upside down
Boy you turn me inside out
Round and Round

Ian Row
(with apologies to @nilerodgers and Bernard Edwards)

Image by Ian Row

A father and son
on the train remind me how 
far I am from home

Ian Row

My new letterbox
soon attracted new letters.
Build it, they will come.

Chris Gill

Image by Chris Gill

Sidewalks heave and crack
Tree roots in Singapore are
stronger than cement

Alison Lester

Dew on the bonnet
Like goosebumps on the Morris
Glad to be alive

Ian Row

Rules number 1
and 2 ... don't write mean letters ...
don't write mean letters

Carol Ruth Kimmel

But you just got home!
You promised you'd do a roast.
That chicken won't keep.

Charlie

Image by Ian Row

Best laid plans undone.
The nap that never happened.
Unrelenting day.

Kenton Penley Miller

Anti ageing cream
arrives in a box what price
elasticity

Ian Row

The persistence
of predictive test
is impressive

Ian Row

Blue collar bully
Can't pick and choose your neighbours
Lesson: 'Indicate'

Ian Row

Spring Fling Festival.
Hundres, thousands of people.
All I see: biceps.

Ian Row

Friend request
Clearly you have forgotten
You can wait

Ian Row

a text message
a foot short of an olive branch
i will not beg

Neve

Vulnerability
Why wear your heart on your sleeve
Authenticity

Ian Row

Train haiku - evening

Home bound standing up
Setting sun blinds left of train
Sense of sight trumps touch

Ian Row

All weekend I thought
Monday is so far away.
Yet again you'e here!

Kenton Penley Miller

Train haiku - morning

No seats morning train
No choice lock your knees and hips
Sleeping standing up

Ian Row

Confessional haiku

I will admit
to liking a bit of
Maureen McGovern

Ian Row

Yeah, I'm comfortable
I'd be more comfortable  if
you brought me dinner

Charlie

Image by Ian Row

Go on, take me in!
I can tweet, file, edit, proofread.
No one will notice.

Charlie

Image by Ian Row

Uh huh uh huh yep
Blab blah blah oh FFS
Don't you ever stop

Charlie

Image by Ian Row

Once he loved that face
For its handsome features. Now
he just loves that face.

Kenton Penley Miller

Takeaway haiku

Image by Ian Row

Bus stop new friend made
Heart open at face value
Her voice the way home

Ian Row

You can see it there
Walking, glowing on his phone
He's on smitten lad.

Kenton Penley Miller

Sympathetic stretch
The cat and I rise, assume
our positions

Ian Row

Hello Kitty
Free with used mattress
Goodbye Kitty

Ian Row

Living so near the
Equator, how do you explain
your frigid heart?

Jeff Patterson

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

Ian Row

Calendar haiku: October

Far away the birds go -
on the water are ripples
made washing a hoe

Buson (1716 - 1784)

Two Cranes
by Ohara Shoson (Koson) (1877 - 1945)

lunar eclipse
and the day after all the leaves
started turning gold

Carol Ruth Kimmel

Sunny warm morning.
The running track here is full.
Blonde boy buns bounce by.

Kenton Penley Miller

Sunday momentum
The couch is your enemy
Where is your plan?

Ian Row

the child seemed curious
I figured it was about 
time so I told her

Ian Row

Image by Ian Row

Rollercoaster week
View was great but the descent...
See you next Tuesday

Ian Row

Shanghai noodles
with extra curt and surly
Chinese takeaway

Ian Row

Youth, they forget
themselves and their manners
I've forgotten

Ian Row

Her heart on her sleeve
not for him to wrinkle
or trample over

Ian Row

Cold front moves north; South
bound on the Liquid Amber, 
plastic bag sets sail

Ian Row

Image by Ian Row

old man at bus stop
with a song in his head he
taps his rubber boots

Ian Row

the iPhone reset
learned what I can live without
little less of me

Ian Row

I hate ironing
I hate shaving but not as 
much as ironing

Ian Row

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

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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)