turning

from the edge... still

the need to fall

Simply Haiku, winter 2009, vol 7 no 4

Just off Dee Why

An on-line collection of haiku written by Australians can be found at The Dreaming Collection. Its a delightful little site with haiku tumbled into various categories such as suburbs, the outback, pubs, sport, sheep...

They're currently running a competition to unearth more Australian haiku. It's free to enter and it's open to international folk. Entries need to be in by 1 July.

The above photograph was taken last week during business hours. The surf was incredible. At least 50 guys must have called in sick at work that morning and were spending the day riding perfect wave after perfect wave. You can tell we're in the depths of winter by the guys' full body wetsuits.

There are words that go with this picture, but the above competition wants unpublished work only (including blogs... I checked).

peeking

at the scan results

no dead birds

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warm winters day

a Chinese wind chime sings

to an empty street

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returning to work

a patch of sunlight

on the platform

Simply Haiku, winter 2009, vol 7 no 4

golden ant

struggles to the waterhole

I raise my flask

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splintered light

filling her eyes

the curtains drawn

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And a warm cup of tea goes out to the volunteer whale watchers who kindly leant me their binoculars.

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breaching humpbacks
our hands
binocular blue
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a bicycle swaggers

along the sea's edge - the drunk

and his seagulls

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