Entries for this event are now closed, but please read the 90 haiku contributions on the pages below.
This is a ‘haiku string’. Please write your haiku in response to the featured poem, or any poem posted in the comment box. Participation by poets around the world is welcomed.
You may enter as many times as you like.
Haiku posted must be original work by the poster.
Please include your name as you wish it to appear, as author of each of the haiku you post.
FEATURED POEM
the year’s last poem
our childhood front door
wide open
Vanessa Proctor
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long night
the Christmas market
deserted
Olivier Schopfer
longest day …
the birds and I
make an early start
smell of hope
trailing the homeless boy
Christmas pudding
Celestine Nudanu
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20/12/16
summer solstice
in Australia
I wish I was
warming my hands
on your summer poems
chillin’ UK
daises
fields of childhood
memories
first summer dawn —
one by one spread petals
peonies
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summer solstice
striped marsh frogs’ frantic love
among the duckweed
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december solstice
strawberries from Australia
on my Pavlova dessert
Earth tide spinning round
We gather for poetry
Communion of souls
twenty past midnight
careful not to create
a sound
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wind-spun leaves
the nature of memories
in cold brief hours
Alan Summers
(unpublished)
I remember helping a foal be born just gone midnight into Christmas day on the farm I rented out just outside Ipswich, Queensland, back in the 1990s. It was always cold for a few hours before the heat of the season jumped back in.
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