AHS Winter Solstice Haiku String 2018

Welcome to The Australian Haiku Society Haiku String for  the day of the Southern Hemisphere Winter Solstice

We will keep the String open for contributions for three days to accommodate international poets who may wish to take part.

We welcome contributions from haiku poets worldwide.

Please select the title or ‘continue reading’ to go to the main post and make your contribution.

This is now closed for comment. Visit the post to read the contributions.

The haiku in this String will be tied together by the subject: ‘seeing the world with a child’s eyes’. There is no need 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 place of residence below the author’s name.

In the spirit of creativity we encourage poets to submit new work.

Posting your work in the AHS Winter Solstice Haiku String 2018 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

 

道あるに  雪の中行く  童かな

michi aruni/ yuki no naka yuku/ warabe kana

there’s the road
yet the child walks
in the snow

Kijo Murakami (1865 – 1938)

(Translation Vanessa Proctor)

81 thoughts on “AHS Winter Solstice Haiku String 2018”

  1. garden pond…
    the fish put back with
    cheering sound

    Pravat Kumar Padhy, India

    *****
    waves after waves…
    the kids take away a part
    of ocean in their alms

    Pravat Kumar Padhy, India

    *****
    tender hand…
    as if the butterfly
    pretends

    Pravat Kumar Padhy, India

    *****

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  2. shortest day
    so many toys to play with
    before bedtime

    new scooter
    exploring the different
    footpaths

    moving house…
    all the light switches
    out of reach

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  3. only porridge…
    the chooks have gone
    off the lay

    Barbara A. Taylor
    Mountain Top, NSW
    Australia

    ~

    the shortest day
    yet still those same
    old chores

    Barbara A. Taylor
    Mountain Top, NSW
    Australia

    ~

    inside the house
    her breath hovers
    like morning mist

    Barbara A. Taylor
    Mountain Top, NSW
    Australia

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  4. only porridge…
    the chooks have gone
    off the lay

    Barbara A. Taylor
    Mountain Top, NSW
    Australia

    ~

    the shortest day
    yet still those same
    old chores

    Barbara A. Taylor
    Mountain Top, NSW
    Australia

    ~

    inside the house
    my breath hovers
    like morning mist

    Barbara A. Taylor
    Mountain Top, NSW
    Australia

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  5. a big boat
    my mother’s skirt running
    so many legs

    the weekend is here
    in the kitchen I smell
    brownies cooking

    Sunday football
    I can’t find my boots
    Dad’s in the car

    Giddy Nielsen-Sweep
    Brisbane, Australia

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