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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you peel your tangerine
in one continuous piece
Olivier Schopfer, tinywords 15.1, & Naad Anunaad: an Anthology of Contemporary World Haiku, 2016, edited by Kala Ramesh, Sanjuktaa Asopa and Shloka Shankar.
Christmas 2016
a new listing
for Santa
Christmas 2016
no tags with her name
this year
shadows and light –
sunrise lonely
does not last long
between me
and the christmas beetle –
back screen door
mandarin peel
the scent
of an old memory
Simon Hanson
summer dawn –
the jogger picks up
a speckled cowry
summer solstice –
the flock passes into darkness
one by one
– Sandra Simpson
A Hundred Gourds 3.4 (2014)
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summer coach
a man brings a beer crate
full of puppies
Alan Summers
(unpublished)
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shortest day
again my nails
need clipping
Polona Oblak
first published in A Hundred Gourds 2.2