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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cold rain
yet another bus
passes the stop
Lynette Arden
Adelaide South Australia
corner café
steam from a latte
joins morning fog
Lynette Arden
The Parade, Norwood, South Australia
butterfly mural
teenagers take selfies
between wings
Lynette Arden
The Parade, Norwood, South Australia
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thirty miles out
big seas, big sky
Simon Hanson
Bass Strait
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winter storm
seeking solace
old pine
–
lonely crow
all that remains
of autumn
–
cherry branch
another winter
alone
Gus McLean
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the drips
from a brown duck’s beak
faintly white
Leanne Mumford
Victoria Park, Sydney
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wading through Tunnel Creek echoes of Jandamarra
Leanne Mumford
Tunnel Creek, Kimberley Region, Western Australia
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whale watching-
looking motionless
the flow of life
Doris Pascolo
Milano, ITALIA
winter solstice-
a flower blossoms
in the barren womb
Doris Pascolo
Milano, ITALIA
winter dusk-
the moon disappears
in the noise of the city
Doris Pascolo
Milano, ITALIA
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cocoon clinging
to a picket fence
changing neighbourhood
Fitzroy, Vic
mountain of blue gums
ready for harvest
death row
Northern Tasmania
a patch of blue
between the skyscrapers
fading paint
Gold Coast, Queensland
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