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.
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Haiku posted must be original work by the poster.
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FEATURED POEM
the year’s last poem
our childhood front door
wide open
Vanessa Proctor
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the old spinning top
dusted off
and twirling again
Simon Hanson
among summer blooms
I wait…
peace garden
wide open
unused front door
wrens nest in yard
magpie and lorikeet
in conversation
my courtyard
first streak of light
on the dividing range
longest day
Rodney Williams
summer solstice
the Christmas bush
already faded
Leanne Mumford
honeysuckle
memories wafting through
the open door
wishing-stars
fall from a Christmas card
. . . the sound of rain
– Lorin Ford, POAM, 2007
heat lightning—
Christmas beetles
spangle the fly screen
– Lorin Ford, The Heron’s Nest Vol. XIII, No. 1 (March 2011)
our measure
of summer days
inchworm
The Mainichi, Haiku in English, 2015