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
Australian Haiku Society 
home . . .
how walking down to the sea
draws back my smile
Jenny Fraser
Mt Maunganui NZ
tumbleweed clouds
following contours of dunes
I tag along
Jenny Fraser
Mt Maunganui NZ
from river ducks
to cry of gulls
home’s ocean roar
Jenny Fraser
Mt Maunganui NZ
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tulip festival …
each person claims
the sun
Akitsu Quarterly, Summer issue, 2017
the mountain
peppered with snow
Wallace Falls
Akitsu Quarterly, Summer issue, 2017
subway transfer
the homeless lady
sells mirrors
Shamrock, issue 37, June, 2017
attic —
the ladybug loses
its red
Brass Bell, May, 2017
frail apple tree
the closest thing we have
to a scarecrow
Cattails, April, 2017
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grey afternoon
in the thorn bush
two eastern rosellas
Lyn Reeves
Hobart, Tasmania
sunset sky
the maple tree lets fall
a crimson leaf
Lyn Reeves
Hobart, Tasmania
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summer moon…
drifts slowly
water lily
a lone cumulus…
floats in the lake
white swan
under the oak…
play hide and seek
flashbacks
Hifsa Ashraf
(Rawalpindi, Pakistan)
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winter-proof feathers
against ice cold air
magpies rejoicing
Dawn Colsey
Newton, South Australia
datepalm in blossom
bees and lorikeets feasting
warily together
Dawn Colsey
Newton, South Australia
last vivid leaf
already Manchurian Pear
puts forth soft catkins
Dawn Colsey
Newton, South Australia
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longest night . . .
Tasmanian Tigers pace
the underworld
Ron C. Moss
Tasmania, Australia
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Beverley George, Pearl Beach, Australia
a mouse perched on moss
halts the guided garden tour –
ten cameras flash
(Garyu Sanso (Sleeping Dragon) house, Ozu, Japan)
newly from Japan …
he designs an echidna
in my coffee froth
(local café, Pearl Beach, NSW)
morning train
the river mist reflected
on commuter Ipads
(Hawkesbury River, NSW)
published in “Evening Breeze” anthology
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