Welcome, haiku poets worldwide to the Australian Haiku Society Summer Solstice Haiga Kukai. Entries close on midnight Sunday 28th of December AEST.
You are invited to 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.
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If you make a mistake in your haiku, please post it again, including a note to disregard your first entry.
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Haiku posted on behalf of my daughter:
light house
the grey clouds
move away
Zaidee Pisani-Lysenko
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in-between
lighthouse flashes
the smell of cod
Agus Maulana Sunjaya
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Dear Agus,
An allusion to the famous David Cobb haiku?
a moment between
lighthouse flashes
cold smell of fish
David Cobb
A Leap in the Light
Equinox Press, 1991
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save our souls
all the centuries pass
this still remains
Myra King
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the lens lie still
a gull slips
from the white sky
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grandpa
takes my hand
old lighthouse
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In the raging sea
A faint
Fog horn.
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beacon of light
clouds reshaping
themselves
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