Make and take haiku

Plantwhat
bbc is great,she ties us together here,a big family

j horner, the corner
does anybodyhave anymore of that pie?i've eaten all mine...

Lis Norfolk
The warm fire went out Grizzling our child shrank inwards Matter reduced,lost

Cath Bore, The Verb
The Verb this evening
The cold almost stopped me coming
But not cold enough.

Tony Heslop, The Verb
Succulent sushi
Tender as a Barnsley chop
Verbal food for thought.

Tony Heslop, The Verb
Mister McMillan,
you've never had it so good.
Aren't words wonderful?

Dawn Davies, The Verb
scratched marks on paper
fresh footsteps in fallen snow
a new beginning.

Sarah, London
freedom is quite hard
a big battle of ideas
all together now

John B, NJ
Velvet skin christens
Under rigid sheets of rock
A mind enraptured

Tiger
hockey is my game
i'm the queen of the astro
beat me if you can

Diane, Norfolk
Thinking drowned, displaced
by daily tears. They will pass.
Freedom will return

Charlie, Warwick Uni
Wet ice. Rotting moan:
Once, a cloth bear in the yard
that frosts the same.

stacy, coventry
Let me say sorry
for being chained to your car.
I was bored at home.

DM, warwick
As if she had flown
from holly, from shade, from the
shakes of nightshade.

blue ocean
lighters are cold steel
a winter night wants a tale
the light of a smile

Clayton Eshleman, Ypsilanti Michigan USA
In Hemingway's Sleep
ill man sorrow Kiliman-
jaro without snow

Cara, Bedfordshire
Finger squished berry
Poked from the straw by my gran
Ruby memory.

blue ocean
the scent of fig trees
reached the shore with salty foam
hair was wavy as snakes

Dag, Woodstock, IL
Oh, childhood of mine
I remember you clearly
But convoluted

blue ocean
summer afternoon
beautiful on the hot beach
seen from a distance waiting

Andrew, London
Haiku screensaver
promised but not here sorry
can't do everything

omega42, Newcastle
a daily haiku,
free of tax and free of care
encircling Heathrow

Bob Buckley, North East
Freedom is a name
For all the things he could do
Were he not so poor

blue ocean
stars over the bench
hands in hands in the dark blue
and the king smiled there

Ben, Norfolk
I've never written
A haiku before this one
But now i have

Tony ,Colchester
little hedgehog
will not survive
winter's wind

Conrad, London
Twenty five years today
Yosser taught us all to say
Gissa job, mate

Quentin, Cambridge
The truest freedom:
To live without depending
On others' goodwill.

Tony, Colchester
Equallity
not all not something
but everything

andrew motion, norfolk
I am laureate
equals bore: mixing metaphors
by the score.. oops

Kat, Birmingham
The outside scares us
Our children are prisoners
Of fear imagined

Julie, Leamington Spa
And we will rise to
freefly Weltanschauung thoughts
thinking themselves cloud.

Gary W, Warwick University
I search for freedom
I leave this dom-i-nation
For a free domain

Harriet, London
Haiku for today:
Notice all you see that's good.
Tomorrow you'll remember.

Tony Colchester
thought is free
and yet students
still have debts.

bob, warwick uni
This is just to say
Like Bill Carlos Williams
I eat plums freely

bob, warwick uni
This haiku is gagged
It so wants to breathe freely
It’s suffocating

bob, warwick uni
my thoughts on this page
must,like a river, flow so
sweet, effortlessly

bob, warwick uni
Think outside the box!
Or think in the box? What box?!!
I'm boxless and I'm free...

bob, warwick uni
First - five syllables.
Second - seven. Last line - five?
No, just relax and let it flow

Anna, Leamington Spa
Frost, child of Winter
banging on its tambourine,
makes the dead trees sing.

Yoshiko Tokyo
Don't think !
from that moment,
Thinking is overflowing.

Sanira, Manchester
I run out of the door
Into the big blue outside
Leave childhood behind

Jimmy Kent, Leamington Spa
To smell and be warm,
Or leave the window open?
That is the question

Jimmy Kent, Leamington Spa
Where once duly dwelt
We, waxing dark poetics,
Dwindles data’s dust

Jimmy Kent, Leamington Spa
Air conditioning,
You are but sanitised wind
Called by a button.

Jimmy Kent, Leamington Spa
Why does my sword hang
Near, on the door? So I can
Resist temptation

The Wisdom of the Football Commentator
It's quite literally
A no-win situation.
Unless they can win.

Karl, London
Do the terms of use
Imposed upon the haikus
Restrict free thinking?

Michèle , London
Freedom is curly,
Like a dream of Ronald Searle
Ribbons, dynamite

Lisa New York City
I am divorcing
After 22 odd years
An even number
Whoops forgot the theme
Something about liberty?
Sorrow steals freedom

David, Hove
It's equality
you've got nothing better hunh?
go jump in a lake

David, Hove
Drink more, drive faster
path to the land of the free
Can I go home now?

Lisa New York City
There's something icky
About the net effect, the sound
of all these darn fives

David Greenberger, Greenwich, NY, USA
Since I was a child
I put my name on my work
David Greenberger

Janine, Brooklyn, NY
Listening to the singer
Ask myself: How does she know
What I am feeling?

Andrew, London
My clever haiku
had flounce where flout was called for
not so clever now.

Juan Deutsch, Letchworth, Herts
Clip clop, down the hall,
my dead father's army boots
walking by themselves!

Bob Thorpe Brittany
Childhood without thought
Becomes adulthood with thought
Each has its freedom

Loops, London
How many pennies
Have you been given for them?
I'm poor but think loads.

Lou, London
Equality dreams
meander free down the stream
To the fest in Liver.

Andy.P, Liverpool
A free space to think
childhood and equality
A space to think free....wheee!

Loops, London
Freed memories flip
and flop to tick-tocks of long
Childhood summers gone.

Looby, London
Equality please.
I'd like my fair share of the
duvet and the bed!

Rags, London
Life is a see-saw
I'm light so I need someone
heavy opposite :)

Rags, London
I often think enough
To know that I'll never be
Free from me and I

Andrew, London
free thinking haiku
public flounce syllable rules
poetic licence

Iztok Osojnik
thought
a one syllable
freedom

Iztok Osojnik
freedom
a two syllable
thought

Iztok Osojnik
only prisoners
think
freely

Matt, Liverpool
Passage of time
Through knowledge my mind grows
Emerging freer

Navraj, London
Child in the moment,
Play with time, space and freedom,
Be in the future

Matt, Liverpool
Passage of time
Through knowledge my mind grows
Emerging freer

Sarah, Essex
Bubbles in the air;
They float, some grow or pop, like
Thoughts - fragile but free.

juan deutsch, letchworth
clop clop down the hall
my dead mother's high-heeled shoes
walking by themselves

Andrew, London
Free Thinking my way:
begin anywhere in life
a journey of thought.