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
contributions:
singing dawn
of the longest day
Papa Crow
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in this dark dawn
seagulls look for each others –
they also dumb
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the edge of solstice
her sonogram
shows twins
Rebecca Drouilhet
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christmas morning heat –
two fledgling mudpie larks
pecking cobwebs
Alan Summers
Magazine credits: Blithe Spirit Vol. 7 No. 1 Feb 1997; de facto 2 issue 2. (2008)
Collection: sundog haiku journal: an australian year sunfast press 1997 reprinted 1998 California State Library – Main Catalog Call Number : HAIKU S852su 1997
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riding a train
into the new year
my childhood
Rick Daddario
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the longest day
the same as the shortest day
planet earth
Rick Daddario
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red cheeks
my hands without gloves
in your pockets
Marta Chocilowska, Asahi Shimbun 07.02.2014
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a broken shell
her words return
in waves
-Debbie Strange (Canada)
Cattails, September 2016
Jane Reichhold tribute (1937-2016)
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puppies for adoption
the we’re-just-looking couple
leaves last
-Tzetzka Ilieva
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summer solstice –
rain drops dilute
my father’s grappa
– Tzetzka Ilieva
A Hundred Gourds, 2012
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