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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granddad’s homestead
on the upright piano
a shawl of fine dust
West Texas, Peggy Bilbro
all that we loved
a single chimney
embraced by kudzu
North Alabama, Peggy Bilbro
the roofers’ hammering
their natural rhythm
nails my syllable count
North Alabama, as I write this haiku!
this classroom
with one small window
longing for sky
Peggy Bilbro, Huntsville, Alabama, USA
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sweltering sun
cobblers on road
endless queue
RADHAMANI SARMA –
Chennai — India
cherry path
thousand shows
rewind
RADHAMANI SARMA —
Chennai – India
barren tree
summer special for
dry and spell
RADHAMANI SARMA
Chennai- India
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Koriniti
a kapokapowai catches
the light
Bush giant dragonfly. Its Maori name means ‘water snatcher’.
tuatara snack a weta’s legs waving
Nola Borrell
New Zealand
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midnight special
the rumble of a semi
outside the roadhouse
Simon Hanson
Tintinara, South Australia
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my feet in the North Sea cries of a tern
(Knokke – Heist, Belgium)
first published in A Hundred Gourds 3.4
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first autumn rain
the gleam of cobblestones
in Dubrovnik
first published in Modern Haiku 45.3
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summer solstice
passing tour boats meet
under the Dragon Bridge
(Ljubljana, today)
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Polona Oblak
Ljubljana, Slovenia
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inside out
gopher
pasture road
under the bus
the driver
legs sticking out
the tourists all out
to look at the rockslide
mountain road
Garry Eaton
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a new path
trough the fresh snow
footprints of birds
Vasile Moldovan
Bucharest, Romania
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