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.
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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)
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children
building the snowman together
making him smile
Lynette Arden
one step
after another
jumping puddles
Lynette Arden
beside a puddle
a broken umbrella
winter wind
Lynette Arden
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refugee camp
a child searches our heavens
for her favorite star
Ron C. Moss
Tasmania, Australia
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moon in the window
a seahorse named Philip
rides a blue bubble
Ron C. Moss
Tasmania, Australia
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moon landing
tiny fingerprints
in the play dough
*
Ron C. Moss
Tasmania, Australia
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. . . in grimy gutters
and along neon streets –
here be dragons
Zorro slumps
weeping in the corner –
fancy dress
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Playing in the street
Mud puddles up to my knees
Oops a frog
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sacred space
love born
in a Mother’s womb
Astrid Sauney
Sarina, QLD – Australia
hiding
in the dandelions
a love poem for you
Astrid Sauney
Sarina, QLD – Australia
earth under my feet
sun in my belly
little steps grow
Astrid Sauney
Sarina, QLD – Australia
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this urge
to leave traces…
first snow
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caged budgie
the war zone child asks
when it can go free
Ingrid Baluchi
Ohrid, Macedonia
kids under cardboard
huddled over ashes
all thumbs up and smiles
Ingrid Baluchi
Ohrid, Macedonia
mud and squalor —
stretching through borders
a toddler picks a poppy
Ingrid Baluchi
Ohrid, Macedonia
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misty rain
creates a world
of magic
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