Welcome to The Australian Haiku Society Haiku String for the day of the Southern Hemisphere Winter Solstice, which occurs in Sydney NSW on Wednesday, 21 June 2017 at 2:24 pm AEST.
We will keep the string open for contributions until Friday, 23 June at 2.24 pm AEST to accommodate international poets who may wish to take part.
See the contributions by clicking the header to go to the main post, or click HERE
We welcome contributions from haiku poets worldwide to the AHS Winter Solstice Haiku String 2017.
The subject of the haiku string is ‘place’. We invite you to share with us your original haiku about the place you live, or a place where you have lived or visited. Tell us about the landscape, whether urban, rural, or wilderness, the weather and mood of the place, the animals, birds, insects, and sea creatures, and the lifestyle and customs of the humans who live there.
The haiku in this string will be tied together by the subject: ‘place’. There is no necessity for each haiku to relate to the previous haiku in the string, although we allow for response haiku for two levels below each haiku in the top-level posts in the string.
- Please contribute up to three of your best haiku
- Haiku should be posted in the comment box at the end of this post
- Haiku posted must be original work by the poet making the post. Please include your name below each haiku as you wish it to appear.
- We invite you to include the name of the ‘place’ below the name of the author.
- We would prefer contributions of new work, but will accept previously published haiku.
Posting your work in the AHS Winter Solstice Haiku String 2017 assumes the following:
Copyright of each haiku remains with the author. We request nonexclusive permission to publish your work on AHS website and to republish it in any future online collections on the AHS website
rented house
the best spot in the village
for winter sun
Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828)
.かり家や村一番の冬日向
kari ie ya mura no ichiban no fuyu hinata
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bell tower stairway
the race towards
the breaking dawn
Anthony Q. Rabang
Saint Augustine Parish Church Bell Tower,
Bantay, Ilocos Sur, Philippines
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ancestral house
on a wood ceiling beam
the sparrow’s nest
Anthony Q. Rabang
Vigan Heritage Village,
Vigan City, Philippines
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baroque cathedral
the muted glow of flowers
on the retablo
Anthony Q. Rabang
Iglesia de Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion,
Santa Maria, Ilocos Sur, Philippines
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Mother duck gliding
Puff-ball chicks paddle the lake
Line of contentment
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The white
A snowfield of untrodden
possibilities
Empty page
The black ink strikes
Bleeding with imagination
Soul mirror
My destiny holds me
in its thrall.
Where is freedom?
Eloped with happiness
I find resignation
Hendrik 🙂
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silver sands motel
a neon palm
lights the lobby
Simon Hanson
Gold Coast, Queensland
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low tide pool
brimful of clouds
evening calm
Marietta McGregor
Broulee, New South Wales, May 2017
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tide-bared sandbar
a brace of pelicans
fanning river mist
Marietta McGregor
Tomaga River, Mossy Point, New South Wales
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watching a trickle
of winter shadows
old truss bridge
Marietta McGregor
Goodradigbee River, Wee Jasper, New South Wales, June 2017
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garden tour
the brilliance of poppies
at every gate
Dawn Bruce
England
the bang and thud
of earth moving equipment
noon heat
Dawn Bruce
St Leonards NSW
tangled weeds
in the cottage garden
one daffodil
Dawn Bruce
Croydon NSW
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whiskey grass
swaying the hillside
south-westerly
jane mclean
mullumbimby nsw australia
winter sunlight
glistening in peach fur
wrens’ twitters
jane mclean
mullumbimby nsw australia
autumn rainbow
Mt Chincogan to the ocean
your smile
jane mclean mullumbimby nsw australia
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Sundays at Grandma’s
the smells of church bells
and roast beef
Jan Dobb
(Melbourne in 1940s)
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staring in . . .
a possum inside
staring out
Jan Dobb
(Canberra)
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my fancies flying
with a flock of cockatoos
peak gridlock
Jan Dobb
(Canberra)
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