Sorry for the confusion boys and girls. I meant to tell you earlier - the haiku blog is over. The reason for this is because nobody is over. I'm pulling the plug on the whole thing. You can read about it here.

One day there will be a new haiku blog, but who knows where, who knows when? Not me. All I know for sure is that the only certainty is change. Or to put it another way, all things must pass.

Thanks to everyone who piled in and made it happen - you were all brilliant. And of course my apologies. If it's any consolation I'll miss this place as much as you will. It just is what it is.

Never mind all that, it was fun while it lasted and who knows, perhaps we'll all meet again in the funny pages some day.

best,

n

swirled by the current
the blossoms dallied briefly
then went their own way

And just below you'll find FB's haiku from last week. It was the best he ever wrote and spookier than any of us knew. Ciao boys and girls.

Distracted moment
Life's course changes forever
Never to return

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One single B'loon
one loon against
a world of Corinthians

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little balloon nods
magnificent edifice
lacking helium

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in awe of marble
she loosened hold with a breeze
and continued on

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My congressman had
one lucid thought, but it escaped
during spring cleaning

round and round it goes
we drink the waters of Lethe
the world indifferent

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burgundy sari
drapes into a laughing eye
behind baby's face

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wisdom determined
wrinkles through age
and through innocence

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All that effort over
She made it into the world
Give her a big hand.

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deep serenity
but still a nip in the air
life begins again

white light and dark dirt
perfect flowers spin like wheels
singularity

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Earth mothers kitchen
life blooms
madness descends

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one thousand yard stare
hands paused memory churning
roots found in black dirt

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alone with flowers
she loses herself again
hoping to bloom soon

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I feel the earth move
In my hand, mindless kneading
Sexual tension

A geeks wet dream
Creaming pants
Whilst joystick killing

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dangerous vision
we are all terrorists now
death comes here unseen

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Heroes of the hour
Top gun rules in a cocoon
The real world awaits

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sit back and relax
video game generation
outside slowly dies

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as those behind drones
cruel objectification
maintains boundaries

Cerulean sky
Colours change to cinnamon
Strands of cloud alight

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we share a vision
the archaic revival
a beach lost in time

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Modesty becomes
There are no drapes to open
No tongues of water

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clouds swarm to the land
the glowing heavens shine on
life regenerates

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foreboding skies lurk
a couple of rocks stand firm
let's dance one more time

a glimpse of the attic
through Dorian Grey's lowered blinds
just leave a message

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Beauty is skin deep
It's what's underneath that counts
Mona Lisa smile

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How to move forward
no master
no sense of control

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he crumbles apart
smiling blindly mutely
military man

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hazy, crazy eyes
welcome aboard my spaceship
and the heavens laugh

mass destructive art
hallowed, sterile wings of kings
a world upside down

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masters of war feign
disavowing the profane
whilst praising death art

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the art of death
glorious, 'awesome', thoughtless
the death of art

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no it's not misplaced
war machines and marbled halls
perfect harmony

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an airborne siren
lands with a silvery crash
the debonair wreck

high above our heads
on a tinselled sepulchre
a pentacle burns

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Molotov christmas tree
Fires of revolutions
burning bright

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in a festive mode
the giant dalek have come
to exterminate!

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petrol and balsam
paper cardboard and tinsel
makes the brightest tree

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Christmas is over,
And while the wife is out, I'll
burn this fucking tree!

with neat roads
the city is well planned
with much greenery

-

The earth is now square
No blossoms for festival
The Borg does not care

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man in reduction
technique is thy god program
look for the harness

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God laughed when they tried
to put "creative" inside
a small metal box

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Innocent circuts
data bank analysis
the Beast is born

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trails, buses, mother
conquering the world out there
here laying souls bare

rooted in dark earth
vision will clear for closed eyes
bring forth this flower

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Contemplatively
dreaming of riches to come
when they call me buddha

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Skara from Stargate
Abydos to ascension
Returns to fig tree

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Bomjon meditates
Will he enlighten us all
When he goes over?

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why don't you all try
meditating instead of
watching me do it?

in the good old days
chicken were as big as men
and smoking was cool

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so all right yous guys
no more chicken road jokes
Bugsy and me say

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Everything depends
on a banded, white chicken
standing next to me

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Chicken licken
roll your own
smokin kid KFC

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Spring of sixty nine
I started to smoke because
Zappa looked so cool.

*eighteen* sixty nine
real boys rolled their own wads and
knew how to speak hen

forgetting the song
our colours flee from the sun
with summers passing

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walking east my love
we endeavor to arrive
on islands of joy

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white sand on dry skin
moist lips hint of salty seas
chit, chat and sunset

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With Adam and Eve
On the Hawkesbury River
Original fun

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Allegorical footprints
Escape all meaning and verse
timeless and tranquil

latin at gunpoint
o magnum mysterium
dona nobis pacem

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very celibate nuns
blow off steam with pump-action
ex-carpenter cries

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hunting with god's girls
brought home a wounded devil
rest and smoke cigars

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there on yonder field
is a deliciously naked man
first come first serve

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no room for dispute
this dogma will be enforced
by shotgun wedding

stand and deliver
your money or your life
maybe your wife?

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small alien head
two big weapons for beating
he looks familiar

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Her name was Bertha.
Dressed in hides, smeared with bear grease.
He could not resist.

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i always harden
when my feet touch the sweet earth
sewing my oats

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foggy hangover
saint patrick spotted a snake
he don't drink no more

a paper tiger
scary except for the grin
of a Cheshire Cat

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a jackal stare-down
lost my human proportion
hesitant retreat

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your face is eclipsed
shadow bands reveal the joy
this message of love

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asian eyes perplex
the silly grimace cutely
stumps haiku dojo

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a killer's face
that I made in a mirror
it's the real me, grrr!

Sometimes the poet
in slovenly bovine scenes
finds peace among noise

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Used to get invites,
to gallery openings,
where I drank too much.

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photo cow chews grass
gives a dirty look to man
through the dimensions

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oblivious smoke
cow leaves shrooms in fields azure
divine hindu shit

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the two of us
watching the world go by
and each his own cud

pride and aggression
the nature of a dragon
much to overcome

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wisdom well guarded
this pearl is so hard to find
chasing my tail

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self created
of everything and nothing
it unto itself

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fury spits fury
dance immortal not to end
fire-water tangle

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have: fiery meatball
need: linguini, romano
wine and crusty loaf

a crime of violet
head bowed, reaching for the sky
wings of surrender

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a bleeding blossom
her kiss resistant flower
mary shelley's weed

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Carmine temptress
A siren with wings unfolded
Call for her bidding.

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on a rare day of snow
i held a cyclamen loosely
leaving childhood behind

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tiny green creature
peeking bravely from your ship
of purple petals

In promising all
Giving little lives the spirit
Of Edward Bernays

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joyously spellbound
in a heartfelt, altered state
morphed into a hound

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Hypnotic coins
Sea monkeys to play with
Doggy done it too

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too many words i see
more bosomy and leggy
just sell the sizzle

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staring out to sea
where magical things were real
and cost a dollar