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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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Food or Cooking.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1.Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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
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rainy morning—
waking to the scent
of crockpot stew
lingering sweetness
of apples in the empty dish—
savoring the crumbs
remember all the hungry
children, Nana said—forcing
bite after bite
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leafless shrub
last flower suckles
a straggling bee
first cold blast
time for fireplace
and hot chocolate
holiday sweets
last reminder
of the old country
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the web captures
a leaf…
still hoping
fighting over
the olive branch –
king parrots
roadside
cockatoo and magpie
share bread
Maurice Nevile
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winters aroma
draws me to the kitchen
to warm my soul
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oh rain
washing sunlight into
golden rays
rain, please keep on
for she’s crossing
the bow bridge
Chen Xiaoou (China)
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saliva dripping
they keep swallowing
picnic in the meadow
dog tongue clack
merry legs are dancing
big clear bowl
the Well-Fed
sees chopsticks
as two beams
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summer heat
freshly churned ice cream
excites my tongue
burgers on the grill
the neighbor’s dog
howls his misery
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