Hot in Australia: haiku and things for December 2008

5/12/08

Christmas is coming.
It’s hot in Australia,
swimming weather – yay!

(I think we better call this one a senryu.)
A friend commented:

There is a word for people who talk about heat & swimming weather while it is snowing here in Colorado -- but I don't think that word is "senryu." (-:


12/12/08

Morning dark and damp.
I contemplate stormy clouds
and turbulent creek.

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In the flood of love
my heart naturally turns
to joyous haiku.


19/12/08

Christmas looms closer,
storms and heat mere irritants
in lead-up frenzy.


20/12/08

In our warm weather
I gaze at pictures of snow –
admire, don’t envy.

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Is it gift or wage
if you must be a good child
for Santa to come?


23/12/08

No longer looming,
Christmas is here. May it bring
peace and joy to all!


26/12/08

Christmas is over:
two days of festivity
in a busy year.

Losing track of days
in a welter of feasting,
I forget haiku!


28/12/08

The dark of the moon
a soft steady rain falling.
I write to my son.