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.

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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)

81 thoughts on “AHS Winter Solstice Haiku String 2018”

  1. 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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  3. A puddle –
    a promise of splash.
    Pulled away.

    Penny Szentkuti, Sydney, Australia

    Blue sky.
    Helicopter seed twirls.
    An empty hand.

    Penny Szentkuti, Sydney, Australia

    A green expanse,
    more bristly than soft.
    The earth pulls.

    Penny Szentkuti, Sydney, Australia

    Liked by 3 people

  4. Her cheeks
    flushed from our winter walk
    my cherry blossom

    Colleen Keating, Australia

    brown toast
    dipped in homemade soup
    fallow garden

    Colleen Keating Australia

    split kindling
    sparks the winter fire
    blue gum trees

    Colleen Keating Australia

    Liked by 4 people

  5. rainbow
    in her painting
    clouds playing at skipping-rope

    stained glass window
    my daughter believes
    God is in green

    my daughter
    teaching paper angels
    how to spread wings

    Radostina Dragostinova
    Sofia, BULGARIA

    Liked by 5 people

  6. Sun returns with solstice
    Chooks inspired to lay again
    Chaotic backyard

    Magpies carol dawn
    Brave violets peep their perfume
    Windscreen sparkles frost

    Two bedraggled pigeons
    Not a single crumb-dropper
    Has blessed them for days

    Virginia Lowe
    Ormond, Melbourne, Victoria

    Liked by 2 people

  7. teenage grandchildren
    share english breakfast…
    afternoon tea

    Margaret Mahony
    Australia

    on the soccer field
    I recognise
    his orange boots

    Margaret Mahony
    Australia

    after basketball
    we order
    hot chips

    Margaret Mahony
    Australia

    Liked by 1 person

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