Speed Round 06/11

i.
Another haiku
I'm not feeling inspired
Today...

Neil Krieger

ii.
Dog Man Star is great
Though some songs are harrowing
It still cleans your soul

Simon Patience

iii.
unsolved Sudoku
the verge of knowing: a view
when I become them

Ian Row

Spot Haiku 33 Part 3 of 3 - All seasons haiku

i.
Of your own making
The stress you've been creating
Perpetuating

Simon Patience

ii.
Peoplewatching
The passengers at gate 9
Boys I’d like to bonk

Ian Row

iii.
Darting, laughing
On crested wave competing
Dolphins surf

Margaret Quigley

iv. inspired by Emily Dickinson
backscattered
from the lunar surface
the universe my shoe

Alan Summers

v.
sound of jet engine
in my headphones, in my head
wrestles with Boz Scaggs

Ian Row

vi.
Sea sparklingly cool
Glimpsed from nursing home window...
He once drank champagne

Margaret Quigley

Spot Haiku 33 Part 2 of 3 - Winter haiku

i.
Hunched against the rain
looking down, we see the sky.
Everywhere mirrors!

Chris Gill

ii.
Cold wind breaks the soul
Warm breath on a window pane
Foggy funny face

Cathy Dineen

iii.
Far roam I drinkless
now I need not, I might just
to escape this rain!

Clive the Camel

iv.
Silly placentals
sadly out of place in my
constant forest damp.

Terry the Thylacine

Spot Haiku 33 Part 1 of 3 - Rapture haiku

i.
Feeling rapturous
Jesus freaks await years' end
Just another day

Jason Rostant

ii.
Fuck the Rapture
Everyday is my last day
Since you went away

Neil Krieger

i.
Autumn's last leaves cringe...
Winter's icy whispering
Daring them to die

ii.
Autumn's camellias
Farewelling Mother Earth
With blossomed kisses

iii.
First snowflake of winter
Gentle, cool....
Our last kiss

Margaret Quigley

Culpability
becomes liability
only if you're judged.

Chris Gill

sunrise
ebony hands
sift the grains

Jodie Hawthorne

Spot Haiku 32

Excitable kids
They're not usually like this
Parents on repeat

Jason Rostant

Why Australia Post?
The long sad weeks drag on by
My package is lost :-(

Sutekh the Destroyer

Satisfy my wants -
Excite! Deliver! - and yes,
be sure to mean it

Jeff Patterson

the word for today
is 'disproportionate'
unequal friends

Ian Row

Spot Haiku 31

i.
pristine skies reflect
summer's golden promises
new season - new dawn

Cathy Dineen

ii.
Corrupt datasets
Resistentialism reigns
"Things are against us".

Sutekh the Destroyer

iii.
In the park, shoes off
Feet basking in the sun's warmth
No more work today

Natalie Au

iv.
Praise those butterflies!
It's not the other you see -
but the Best of You

Jeff Patterson

scent of lomandra
in the dusk
we skinnydip

Violette Rose-Jones

sneakers, suspended
dealer moved out months ago
wait and see in vain

Ian Row

Speed Round September 1.5

i.
the rainbow insists,
behind nimbus cumulus,
there is always hope.

Ian Row

ii.
the weather broke and
the water on the bay shone.
the sun burned his face

Cathy Dineen

iii.
Castro cap for spring
not warmth but courage he seeks
Seasonal armour

Ian Row

Yellow beak, red comb
Loudly crowing near your home
Near the leaves of fall.

Eddie Cox

Two haiku about a bad pun about a rooster

i.
cock a doodle doo
bad pun about your cock but
it's true

Ian Row

ii.
cock a doodle do
green leaves turn yellow then fall
flat like that bad pun

Neil Krieger

Speed Round September 1.4

i.
black, white and red flags
fill the streets with footy fizz
go pies or go saints!!

Cathy Dineen

ii.
suburban beacon
station flooded in lights, snubs
tracing paper moon

Ian Row

iii.
Trains' rhythmic cycle
Like addicts' whirring, whining
Chasin' their own tracks

Jason Rostant

iv.
Handmade chocolates
Shaped by love n' stained with sweat
A li’l piece of you

I'll feed you
but first you'll have to
open wide

Dawn Mok

v.
Will you be my friend?
Look how many friends I have!
Nerdy Facebookworm.

Chris Gill

vi.
I am in class
Looking out at the big tree
Beautiful to me

Vitee Jampoka

vii.
flower pressed pansy
bookends a moment misfired
never in question

Ian Row

Speed Round September 1.3

i.
Here, where I belong
There, where I’m located
Life in absentia

Ian Row

ii.
boundaries of prose
restrict my creative flow.
limericks are fun!

Cesca Alice

iii.
However it goes,
it goes. However, it goes!
How, ever it, goes.

Chris Gill

iv.
and so time passed on
I saw the sun reflected -
shadows on the wall

Cathy Dineen

fugly mormon
how you gonna pull for God
with a mug like that

Ian Row

Me, marionette +
You, man holding strings =
One sad, fucked up show

Jeff Patterson