It's very wearing
being told time after time
That you're in great health

Carol Ruth Kimmel

I'm trying to sleep
I'm not here to amuse you
Lights out when you leave

Charlie

Image by Ian Row

Consequential haiku

Discounted roses
Withered, brown, manky petals
Beauty comes cheaply

Ian Row

Image by Ian Row

Finally fortune
shows its hand, favouring
the patient

Ian Row

Rental car
4 doors good, 2 doors bad
Get what you pay for

Ian Row

It's raining
My dry clothes are on the line
Fuck

Ian Row

with deft tongue
the boy fashions his chewing gum
into braces

Ian Row

honeymoon -
his luggage
her baggage

Carol Raisfeld
@carol_red

The postcard arrives
4 weeks after the fact
Sentiments remain

Ian Row

Tickets to Prince
Purchased in 7 minutes
Still so far from front

Ian

Conclusion:

Caterpillar
on flying carpet 'post-it'
Juicy succulent

Ian Row

Caterpillar
in the bathtub
needs rescuing

Ian Row

Loving yourself today
Not who you'll be tomorrow
You're wonderful now

Monday Morning Haiku
@MondayHaiku

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

Ian Row

Image by Ian Row

Wangled a seat in
Emergency exit row.
Still got that ol' charm

Kenton Penley Miller

February now
boy crossing against the light
skipping all the way

Carol Ruth Kimmel

You are a prism
The light of the universe
Shining through you

Ian Row
in memory of Maurice White

Big project approved
the first cool day of Autumn.
My Winter unforeseen.

Chris Gill

Image by Chris Gill

I like this! A lot!
Who is this Wendy again?
I can still smell dog.

Charlie

Image by Ian Row

late January
already a few stains
on the calendar

Sage Stone
@sagestone_

River salmon will
raise its needle dorsal fin
hearing water fall

Carol Ruth Kimmel

Dream : I was traveling
There was much packing to do
and not enough time

Ian Row

snowdrift ~
imagining
his ashes

Rob Scott
@haikubobb

Ok, dinner time.
What is it? What you waiting for,
an invitation?

Ian Row

Ripples scattering
the stars
of a misplaced sky

Gene Myers
@myersgene

Roses
3 bouquets for 5 dollars
Discounted beauty

Ian Row

Image by Ian Row

Words and image by Ian Row

Four friggin' weeks
Your longest trip evah
Don't do that again

Charlie

Image by Ian Row

Fundraiser meeting
advertise the big event
super-easy task

Carol Ruth Kimmel

Hornbill silhouette
cuts the sky like a pair of
Mother's sewing shears

Alison Lester

Words and image by Dawn Mok

Butterflies.
Leaving one home
for another.

Ian Row

Implosion.
Present continous...
imploding.

Ian Row

a carpet of snow
keeping me from going close
to the ocean's edge

Yamaguchi Seishi (1901 - 1994)
submitted by Carol Ruth Kimmel

Temporary tatt
New skin helps to shed some light
Even sharp points blunt

Ian Row

Tiong Bahru white trash
The bitch steals my cab, no match
for my potty mouth

Ian Row

Twisted love
You were a victim first
before you turned

Ian Row

The purpose revealed
The path still a mystery
Serendipity

Ian Row

raining cats and dogs
two parts 'weather' three parts 'sign'
wet and wild future

Ian Row

Eve of New year's Eve
Make your choices quickly
Less you miss the boat

Ian Row

Zen at Ground Zero
Weather warning is forecast
You are a lighthouse

Ian Row

sooner or later
all your second chances
run out

Ian Row

My open window
Allows the neighbour's air con
To hum me to sleep

Kenton Penley Miller

It's hard to be still
Birthday anticipation
The child in the man

Ian Row

A Tak Po (Dim Sum Restaurant) Twinset

i.
Dinner for one
I asked for the pork not frog
I'm glad he checked

ii.
Sliced pork black pepper
If it works there is no shame
in repeating meals

Ian Row

"Viente Poemas
de amor"... I want to learn
Spanish, Neruda

Carol Ruth Kimmel

for my friends in Chile, Jeannette Saravia Salas and Jorge Ruiz

big shot
three olives 
in his martini

Michael Ketchek
Rochester, NY
via @haikunortham

Summertime Bathing Blues

No words are needed.
A sideways judging glance
at my gut's enough.

Kenton Penley Miller

Note to self

Note to self:

You don't 
need permission to
be free

Ian Row

I will break your heart
once I retrieve it from the
rubble of your fears

Dawn Mok

Image by Dawn Mok

I hate holidays
No you no cuddles and I
can't work the remote

Charlie

Image by Ian Row

Afraid of the sea
but I love the ships with their
masts and ropes and sails

Carol Ruth Kimmel

Dying moth
I am afraid to confront
your struggle

Ian Row

Imperfect flowers.
Where do they go to die?
Beauty has a place.

Ian Row

Image by Ian Row

Shock to the system
Yelled at by lollipop man
Margin of error

Ian Row

A warm summer night
Silence not even static
Check cat for a pulse

Ian Row

Sorry I'm filthy
I like it under the car
Like the way it smells

Charlie

Image by Ian Row

And when you get back
Please please change the fucking sheets
I'm so over pink

Charlie

Image by Ian Row

You going shopping?
A real present this year please?
Something to cuddle

Charlie

Image by Ian Row

Fat skateboarders

Fat skateboarders
Something you often don't see
Skate expectations

Ian Row

Written by Arcadius Jung
from http://litlpup.tumblr.com

Calendar haiku: December

Plains and mountains
all enveloped in the snow -
there is nothing else

Joso (1661-1704)

Sawatari in Joshu by
Takakashi Hiroaki (Shotei) (1871-1945)

he loves me he loves
me not he loves me he loves
me not he loves me

Ian Row

Image by Ian Row

Haiku on a train 3/3

warringsisters tear
scream implode takesacoolmum to
holdittogther

Ian Row

Haiku on a train 2/3

random stranger
he looks like an elf
does he know?

Ian Row

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)