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.

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.

  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

 

77 thoughts on “AHS Haiku String on Place for the Winter Solstice 2017”

  1. ammonite
    my inner child
    tangled in kelp

    —Martha Magenta
    Lyme Regis, England UK

    carried along
    on a tide of thought
    driftwood

    —Martha Magenta
    Gower Peninsula, S Wales, UK

    long night moon
    a huddle of vagrants
    share a lager

    —Martha Magenta
    Mina Road Park, Bristol UK

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  2. sunny courtyard
    fresh splashes all around
    the ancient well

    locked gate:
    a lizard runs in and out
    of the bars

    seagulls queue
    on a wharf railing
    approaching ferry

    Helen Davison
    Levanto, Italy

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  3. humid day
    asking an extra bottle
    from the pantry

    summer solstice
    my son’s
    cool pendent

    Aparna Pathak
    GURGAON , INDIA

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  4. oh! rainbow . . .
    where you go
    I go

    thoughtfully; gazing . . .
    across the Temple of Zeus
    this August moon

    so deeply catching
    the full halcyon days
    a warm underwear

    Ernesto P. Santiago
    Athens, Greece

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  5. Leaving my Hills home
    I take my last walk and feel
    shells in my pocket

    in between storms
    the rainbow in the river
    shakes hands with the sky

    night waves
    pound an incessant beat
    the wind calls the tune

    Julia Wakefield
    Christies Beach, SA

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  6. memorial
    old names
    in morning frost

    mountain
    the birch branches
    sweeps a robin’s song

    deserted house
    a crow caws
    on the broken roof

    David He

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