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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a thousand fireflies…
the night expands
through the window
(Eaglemont, Melbourne)
old pond
green moss blankets
the blues
(Akitsu) Botanical Gardens, Melbourne
temple bells…
after the crescendo
the cicadas
(Muse India ) India.
Madhuri
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sharing the path
cockatoo and seagull
swap sides
over the fence
one rose translucent
in sunlight
Rose van Son
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winter solstice…
currawongs answer
kookaburra calls
Leanne Mumford
University of Sydney, Australia
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women’s business
gnarled roots around
the sacred lake
Windfall #4 2015
ancient lake
a boy child naked
in her arms
the wake
of a lone swimmer
shortening days
Quendryth Young
Lake Ainsworth, Lennox Head, NSW
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stranded, followed
by community cheers
the whale’s release
Barbara A. Taylor
Mountain Top, NSW
Australia
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even in cold temps
freshly scattered seeds
produce green shoots
Barbara A. Taylor
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winter solstice
a native mouse urges
to come in
Barbara A. Taylor
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high crags
above the lush valley
an eagle soars
Nathalie Buckland
Nimbin NSW
Mardi Grass…
tents spring up beside
mushrooms
Nathalie Buckland
Nimbin NSW
mingled smoke
wafts across the footpath –
Nimbin cafe
Nathalie Buckland
Nimbin NSW
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butterfly’s velvet flight
swerves here and there
ends on a petal
Craig Lincoln
USQ Japanese Gardens Toowoomba
loudly chatters
the small stream
early in the morning
Craig Lincoln
USQ Japanese Gardens Toowoomba
natures tinsel
lichen adorns a dying tree
a last hurrah
Craig Lincoln
USQ Japanese Gardens Toowoomba
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rising dawn
one side of Uluru
holds on to the night
Mark Gilfillan
London – Uk
suddenly silenced
a confusion of birds
……solar eclipse……
Mark Gilfillan
London – UK
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subway
a user reads
“The life of ants”
Annie Chassing
(métro parisien, France)
tepid tramontana
on my gazpacho
pine needles
Annie Chassing
(pine forest in Languedoc, France)
abandoned village
ivy
on the wind roses
Annie Chassing
(Oradour-sur-Glane, France)
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winter chill
the flutter
of bird wings
a crow
in my courtyard
winter solstice
bare trees
silhouette
a silver sky
Margaret Mahony
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