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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time by the river
another summer
trickles by
Simon Hanson
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A very fine haiku, Simon – wistful; quietly evocative; with the season’s passing beautifully mirrored by the flow of the stream.
Best wishes, Rodney
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school car park
. . . the sun beats
only the bitumen
Julie Thorndyke
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trumpet lily
more baroque
than jazz
Jennifer Sutherland
first published The Herons Nest Dec 2014
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her death –
sealed Christmas cards
in the mailbox
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
USA
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Christmas
Hanukkah candles’
flickering lights
*
light
a bee finds nectar
in far away places
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community
a foot in Christmas
another in Hanukkah
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Christmas wreath
a miner bird pecks
the berries
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all day heat . . .
fresh rain on a tin roof
starts-up the ravens
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