My first guest blogger to take up the invitation to post their wares is poet Myron Lysenko. 
His entry is from the National Haiku Writing Month, which is exactly that: write a haiku every day for a month.


April 1:


from her garden
she watches hot air balloons –
pregnant woman


2.4.11


facebook status –
the pregnant woman jokes
her baby has arrived


3.4.11


home recording
of songs for my daughter –
the birds join in


4.4.11


nuclear power
the cockroach also
moves away


5.4.11


a cobweb
under the old shed roof
a wind chime




6.4.11


morning dew –
she tells me her waters
have broken


her waters
have broken –
she washes dishes




7.4.11


the machine
measures her contractions –
she wants her mummy




8.4.11


hand-picked flowers
the ladybird crawls along
a hospital bed




9.4.11


rain on the roof
the baby suckles
a wet nipple




10.4.11


bookshop –
I knock over “The Road
to Inner Peace”


11.4.11


city bookshop –
always kneeling
for poetry




12.4.2011


the baby looks up
at her two huge worlds –
wet night


13.4.11:


see through roof –
light from the clouds
before sleep




14.4:


setting sun
at the end of the branch
yellow leaves




15.4:


a baby
looks at the light –
white cat




the mother’s
leaking breast –
bag of nappies


16.4:


her first
outing in a pram –
she sleeps through it




17.4:


welcome mat –
rain comes through
the open door




18.4:


full moon –
the baby feels for a breast
on her father’s neck


19.4:


just a little
bit of wind –
first smile


20.4:


modern art
on the bedroom walls
coffee stains




21.4:


morning sun –
mother and baby asleep
side by side


22.4:


a baby cries –
the mother’s full breast
starts to leak


23.4:


baby blue eyes –
she makes bubbles
in the bath


breast feeding –
she delights in the details
of a perfect ear


24.4:
expressed milk
the father feeds
his daughter


25.4:


Anzac Day –
fog at the end
of the road


the baby makes
funny faces as she wakes –
Anzac Day


26.4:


playground –
a baby in the pram moves
in her sleep


27.4:


the baby squints
at a bright blue sky –
tree dahlia


28.4:


the sun
bursts through clouds –
we change her nappy


even when the infant cries – post natal bliss


29.4:


a mother
eats chocolate eggs –
baby’s first pimples




30.4:


I change
the baby’s full nappy –
royal wedding