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)

carefull, step by step
tiny hands around the stick
her lampion
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all day long
a sun-speckled robin
weaving the clouds
Skaidrite Stelzer
Toledo, Ohio
U.S.A.
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first day of school –
on mom’s floral skirt
my tears
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tobogganing
a rush of cold air
and the taste of snow
walking home …
in the cotoneaster
a flock of galahs
pressing flowers
we pick Queen Anne’s lace
from the verge
Vanessa Proctor
Sydney, Australia
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Who can know the thoughts
of sheep
grazing in snow?
Dark plane tree balls
against a pale sky ~
too cold to watch the stars
This night the Southern Cross
glitters bright I guess ~
I pull up my quilt
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frost-
on the garden table
the alphabet
squeaky toy sound
the indoor carnival
of winter
hop hop hop
the crispy sound
of frozen grass
Mariela Coromoto Hernandez
Wassenaar, Netherlands
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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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