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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winter solstice-
I open the attic window and
touch the sky with the hand
Vasile Moldovan
Bucharest, Romania
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old bluebird box . . .
a chick-a-dee
midge in beak
flits branch to branch
Jill Lange
Cleveland Heights, OH
in the cool grass–
green-eyed cat
and wild strawberry
Jill Lange
Cleveland Heights, OH
a familiar . . .
the cuckoo
at the street corner
Jill Lange
traffic signals in Vancouver, BC
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native village-
I see it today anew
but only in my dreas
Vasile Moldovan
Bucharest, Romanie
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Yamadera classroom
a trapped yellow hornet
takes over teaching
Kit Nagamura
Yamadera high school, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan 2017
black tang
the ocean’s depths caught
in nets drying
Kit Nagamura
Matsuyama seaside, Ehime Prefecture, Japan 2017
crystallized
death made useful
diatomaceous earth
Kit Nagamura
Wajima, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan 2017
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new year’s day –
broad street never looked
so broad
(first published in The Asahi Shimbun, 6 January 2017)
Jennifer Hambrick
Columbus, Ohio, USA
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columbus
on the front porch
shooting craps with dad
(first published in Brass Bell, 1 December 2016)
Jennifer Hambrick
Columbus, Ohio, USA
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winter garden –
the tips
of the garlic scapes
(first published in The Asahi Shimbun, 17 March 2017)
Jennifer Hambrick
Columbus, Ohio, USA
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ebb tide
the swimming platform
beached
English Bay Vancouver BC
leading the way
flowers in my
bicycle basket
Trout Lake Summer market
Vancouver BC
margaritas on the beach driftwood drifting
Cactus Club ocean patio at English Bay
Vancouver BC
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Akron –
a blimp lifts emotions
into the sky
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
Akron, Ohio USA
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