Summer Solstice Haiku String, 21 December 2016

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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90 thoughts on “Summer Solstice Haiku String, 21 December 2016”

  4. heat lightning
    the rain on the grass
    reflects each strike

    Alan Summers
    1st Prize The Liverpool Virtual Book Fair Twitter Haiku Contest 2014
    (part of the city’s International Festival of Business)

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  5. .
    waiting for the train
    summer heat finds its way
    to every capillary

    Alan Summers
    Publication Credit: Scope vol. 60 no. 2, March 2014 (Fellowship of Australian Writers, Queensland magazine)
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  7. 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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