AHS Haiku String on Place for the Winter Solstice 2017

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.

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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.

  1. Please contribute up to three of your best haiku
  2. Haiku should be posted in the comment box at the end of this post
  3. 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.
  4. We invite you to include the name of the ‘place’ below the name of the author.
  5. 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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77 thoughts on “AHS Haiku String on Place for the Winter Solstice 2017”

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. my feet in the North Sea cries of a tern
    (Knokke – Heist, Belgium)

    first published in A Hundred Gourds 3.4


    first autumn rain
    the gleam of cobblestones
    in Dubrovnik

    first published in Modern Haiku 45.3


    summer solstice
    passing tour boats meet
    under the Dragon Bridge
    (Ljubljana, today)

    Polona Oblak
    Ljubljana, Slovenia

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  5. 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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