Fly Me To The Moon

there are ninety ways
to fly to the moon
but
just one phone call
a slow sexy drawl
on  the other end
transmitting
sparkles down the line
transports me there
in a second
cheap space travel

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Photo Challenge - MLMM

Kavan Cardoza

eventually
the icy blue fingers
of reality
creep up unawares

daubing the door posts
with lamb's blood
is no guarantee
of 
escaping its grip

being quiet
remaining perfectly still
will not fool it into
softening its grasp
either

reality's tapered fingers
will split one open
like a pod of peas

even  those of us who have
manoeuvred the dance
to keep three steps ahead
fall at its faintest touch

Haiku Horizons

my heart sinks at dusk
another night without you
the cat shares my bed

Happy Easter .

Wishing all my readers and visitors a very Happy Easter.

Brescianello - Sinfonia for Strings and Basso continuo in F-Major, Op. 1...

Brescianello In The Bush

my morning
wake up music

putting on the jug
the clatter of  pretty tea cups
looking out on to the blue plains
the long grass
waving feathery fronds
saying good morning
to the nasturtiums
and the currawongs

merci
tu fais
ma vie si belle

Michael Franks - Face To Face

Heeding Haiku With Chevrefeuille

in  the mirror
a man in the autumn of his life
his hair turned gray

Chevrefeuille

love in autumn years
is like a cosy duvet
warm and comforting

MLMM

Bach, St Matthew Passion - The Bach Choir

Climate Of Fear

bodies and blood
screams in the dark
in tears of grief
the belgians mourn
for their dead
hearts cry to thee
o saviour dear
hold your love close
in the reign of terror
rest thou softly
softly here
hold your love close
who knows
what lies ahead
rest thou softly
softly here

Prayer For the Dead
Requiem aeternam dona eis,Domine
Et lux perpetua luceat eis
Requiescant in pace
Amen


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The Wattle

she stands alone
yellow in the paddock
by the pale cold moon

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

Haiku Horizons

she hated flying
stood up at the airport
she must now swim back

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

slices of orange
bloody marys and walnuts
breakfast for lovers

Shadorma

in my hand
i hold your kind heart
am fearful
to drop it
i will keep it safe and warm
it means everything




B&P's Shadorma and Beyond MLMM

Le goût des autres - Alain Chabat For The Weekend

you don't have be einstein
to learn to play 5 notes
rhythmically



embouchure
may pose a problem at first
kissing exercises help
everybody loves a woodwind player
practice makes perfect



making beautiful music
contributing a  coloured slither in the
giant kaleidoscopic pattern of sounds
and like the little sparrow




Saana Rizvi Prompt Nights

Kevin Kline Brushes Up His French for 'Queen to Play'

The Talented Kevin Kline
un americain
qui parle francais
tres bien
soupirant sigh
attirant seduisant
my oh my



hilariously brilliant in
A Fish Called Wanda
parlo italiano his way
torturing pasty face barristers
and poor kkkkkkkkk...ken
i remember to this day




Sunday Scribblings 2

The Story Of Oz

Saint Patrick
rid ireland
of the snakes
sent them  to oz
where they thrive



to join
the venomous spiders


wolf spider

sharks
box jelly fish
blue ringed octopus
stone fish
things that kill

some are pretty


blue ringed octopus

the british used oz
as a dumping ground
for undesirables and crims

heaven did the same
with all the other
unwanted species


hunstman  spider

sent off to
the driest continent on earth
the world's dumping ground

famous for


Ned Kelly

the best bushrangers
with attitude


 Mick Fanning 2016

the best surfers
with more attitude

the best feisty chicks
with most attitude


convict women baring their arses in a church service in
the early colony...definitely unsaintly behaviour




 aussie chicks at play and like their forebears not at all saintly!


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Basho's Frog

geisha bathes in the stream
the monk hides in the bushes
basho's frog croaks louder

carpe diem haiku kai

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

put it on to try
in - vest yourself
in a flowered robe
Basho




a vision at the door
shimmering in  peacock blue 
monday morning surprise

Rene Descartes

transfixed by the fire
the smell of heat in a dream
cogito ergo sum




Haiku Horizons

Haibun

Pondering the spinach, like Descartes staring into the fire, transfixed by the glossy leaves, a voice offered to assist her. She saw another customer standing there , in disbelief, grey bearded yarmulked with payot. Flummoxed, she lied saying she was looking for some tomatoes.He guided her to the right aisle, giving a running commentary on the different varieties along the way , then vanished.

she was the shadow
of past memories  - her eyes
gave her away

B &Ps'  Shadorma and Beyond MLMM

Sunday Scribblings 2

there's always one
at every birthday party
dancing on tables

Paradox

Vladimir Kush

For A Fluid Harpist

anaemic grey skies
no place  for banana folk
float south -ride on waves
wash up into the sunshine
on a shore of fine white sand

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

For The Weekend

Autumn

Neilsen Park Sydney.

Our Summer refuses to leave . Autumn has not arrived yet..I will be sorry to see Summer go eventually.I swim here in the late afternoon until about 7. pm watching the sunset and the sail boats gliding by.

autumn leaves
do not drift by my window
just giant mozzies

Heeding Haiku With Chevrefeuille
MLMM

Weird

portrait of a poet
who attracts odd bods
like moths to a flame



weird and wonderful
strange unique
salvador dali




weird
is not always
wonderful




memories of
chalk throwing mother martina
the school's psycho nun




weltschmerz
weird to be thinking again
in the language of my grandmother's nightmares



a startling sensation
turning up for a poetry reading
at the wrong venue

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Haiku Horizons

Gustav Klimt 1862 - 1918

in a mother's arms
the safest place you can be
a natural right

Sunday Scribblings 2

nurse wilkes
did not tolerate
ditherers

liked helping out writers
using a very persuasive
medical approach
to ensure a happy ending

Kyrielle Sonnet

This tree was said to be the oldest tree in the Amazon ( 5,800 years old)

a wicked act it seems to me
the trees destroyed all gone you see
the loggers came and chopped them down
upset the locals ruin the town

in spite of moans and hot protest
the loggers smirked  chop chop with zest
then came the scuffles fights and frowns
upset the locals ruin the town

angry farmers no more hiring
said get stuffed and came out firing
you can't keep honest good men down
upset the locals ruin the town

a wicked thing it seeks to me
upset the locals ruin the town

B & Ps Shadorma and Beyond
MLMM

Paul Dempsey & Emily Lubitz

you're out of touch
i'm out of time
who cares
i'm goin'dancin'
on that beach
with or without you

For The Weekend

Matthew McDonald ( double bass player ) is the first Australian to ever obtain a principal position in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, said to be the world's finest. Not bad for a boy from Canberra who started off as a rock musician, on an electric bass guitar.


crossing the bridge
from canberra to berlin
anything's possible

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

Glenn Miller - Moonlight Serenade

autumn moonlight
summer whispers bye for now
i need to dance with you

Heeding Haiku With Chevrefeuille
MLMM

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

Quick Step Jive

a flower was offered to me
red and rich with  promise
1 step forward

i gave seven sensible reasons
why i should not accept it
2 steps backwards

making light of my refusal
all the while
quick quick 

secretly
wanting so much
to make that flower mine
slow

so we dance round each other

who knows
if we will ever master the steps
and make it to the end





Midweek Motif PU

Ides Of March

having spent all day
bewaring the ides of march
she collapsed exhausted