Observations on parenting in haiku form

New resolution
Spend more time with the children
​Eating plasticine

Merciful breeze
Children on the half-term break
Scatter pixie dust

Every traffic jam
Kid yells "Keep going guys!"
Funny the first time

Playing in the bath
Kids say "We made ourselves swine"
"It's too hot to drink"

"I remember when
I was young an beautiful"
Says our five year old

Little boy bedtime
Hey Mister Tambourine
​He whispers the words

Curse that stupid book
That taught my daughter the word
'Why.' Why? Why oh Why'

From the sublime to...
Children playing hide and seek
On a trampoline


His drooping eyelids
Draw down sepia curtains In the midnight room

Jedi tramploine 
Sabre rattling preceded by
​"Hello, my name is..."

New South Wales South Coast
Daryl Braithwaite Lyrics
All out for dry clothes

Matchsticks, paddle pops
Poly Vinyl actetate
Heatwave drying times
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Toddlers keep you fit
Ten thousand steps by lunchtime
Now, your mental health...

Last to leave the park
Let's swing for five more minutes
Till the lights come on

Don't play with your food
Or I'll make you eat your toys...
You're eating your toys?

Concentric circles
Drawn in the gritty playground
By overnight rain

Kids shouting nonsense
Down the vacuum cleaner tube
Sounds like Italian

First day of childcare
Somebody's already learned 
To boss people round

Her second birthday
Ladybirds and black swans dance
​Bright lights and parcels

Child wants a jumper
​"Worried about getting cold because of the fan"

Child: "I can't see the
Television of the book"
​Where did I go wrong?

My kid just asked for
'Independent kitchen time'
Suspicious or what?

Gumtree mega tent
Set up for backyard glamping
​UNO till we crash
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Our two year old cried
When I took back mum's make-up
​His mascara ran

Being a good dad
Bashing out songs from Frozen
Sounds like Nickelback

Time for a dad joke
Stupid DVD won't play
I think it's 'Frozen'

On the trampoline
Girls singing songs from Frozen
Getting the words wrong

He gets batteries
Out of a remote like
Seagulls kill a crab

Five syllables
If you're reading this haiku
You're the April Fool

Parenting low point
Spent twenty bucks on pizza
​Kids ate cereal

Four in the morning
Getting in another round
​Of 'musical beds'

Top heavy playground
Too many pirate captains
Not enough pirates

Boy with a cut seeks
Band aid, no disinfectant
'Don't want sauce on it'

Jingle of lego
Humming of a dishwasher
Semblance of order
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Under a dark cloud
A five year old goes to school
​Under a dark cloud

What kind of a joke
Has our seven month old son
​ Laughing in his sleep?

Blue eyed summer girl
Born to moonlight; to daylight
​ Brown eyed winter boy

Beef up your yoga
Handicap your 'downward dog'
​ With a young jockey

Five AM again
Seventy-two BPM
 Hush-a-bye shuffle

Another school break
Another shining brand new 
DVD player

School holiday starts
DVD player blows up
synchronicity

Play-doh the remix
A rearguard decent into 
Potato-skin brown

​Misty cityscape
Boy with his kaleidoscope
​Waiting for daylight 

In the welcome shade
Where last year I carried you
​You set a wild pace

Child says 'Inside Out'
'Will help tell my parents how
​To bother me more'

Am I gullible!
My kids says 'Look, it's snowing!'
I looked... in Thailand

Rainy day holiday
Reading Doctor Doolittle
Hear my father's voice
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