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The Australian Haiku Society welcomes contributions from haiku poets worldwide to the Winter Solstice Haiku String.
We will be holding this Haiku String during the day of the Southern Hemisphere Winter Solstice, occurring in Australia this year on Monday, 21st June, 2021. The String will remain open for contributions until Monday 28th June to accommodate international poets who may wish to take part.
Haiku String – Instructions
The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Food or Cooking. We invite you to explore a multiplicity of ideas in the String without necessarily using the terms food or cooking, though you may if you wish.
The haiku will be linked by subject and theme, it is not necessary for each haiku to relate to the one before it.
1.Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.
2.Haiku should be posted in the comment box at the end of the post.
3.Each poem posted must be original work by the poet making the post. Please include your name below as you wish it to appear.
Posting your work in the AHS Winter Solstice String 2021 assumes the following:
Copyright of each haiku remains with the author. We request nonexclusive permission to publish your work on the AHS website and to republish it online at any future time.
winter blast —
the clattering bedlam
of baking dishes
Rob Scott

winter dawn
glowing pink
quince jelly
Gavin Austin
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book club
beef bourguignon
on low
Gavin Austin
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apple cinnamon
a scented candle
reminds me of gran
Tom Staudt
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it’s cold outside
but warm inside
hot pea soup
Lynette Arden
Christmas dinner
plum pudding with a hint
of silver
Lynette Arden
silent family reunion
unable to break bread
with ghosts
Lynette Arden
And on behalf of Quendryth Young
Quendryth Young
crackling fire
the click of a spoon
stirring
gourmet dish
plating up the chef’s
fingerprints
long cattle drive
the smell of bully beef
at the camp
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Beverley George
ripe figs evade
plastic wrap and neon light
– roadside stall
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hot cocoa —
a pair of sunken ships
pink and white
storm gathering
in my teacup
a new brew
seafood chowder
I look for traces
of a mermaid
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beef stew
I add a pinch
of regret
Bee Jay
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