Welcome, haiku poets worldwide to the Australian Haiku Society Summer Solstice Kukai. Entries close on the day of the Solstice, Sunday 22nd December.
Entries have now closed.
Write a haiku in response to the image.
Enter no more than one haiku per image. Haiku entered should not have been published previously in print or online, including in discussion forums. If you enter more than one haiku per image, only your first haiku will be considered.
Your name should appear on your entry as you would like to see it on the website.
The winning haiku will be displayed on the AHS website.
By entering the competition, entrants agree to make their haiku available for use on the AHS website, although copyright will remain with the author.
No correspondence will be entered into regarding winning entries.
To enter, post your haiku in the comment box. Scroll to the bottom of the page to find the comment box.
If you make a mistake in your haiku, please post it again, including a note to ignore your first entry.
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that white eye the sun
burning a hole through the sky
blackening the earth
Robbie Braithwaite
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smoulder
and blaze
the long hot summer
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withered crops
the skeptics deny
global warming
~Christina Chin
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shadows without rain
the thirteen ways of saying
a longer goodbye
Alan Summers
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incandescent sky –
the sun like a bloodshot eye :
the air is boiling
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early dawn…
mountains echoing
birth of the sun
Lakshmi Iyer
India
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two empty chairs
at the climate debate
this flaming sky
.
Lucy Whitehead
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(this haiku refers to the climate change debate held by Channel 4 in November before the General Election in the UK, to which two party leaders did not turn up)
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