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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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Food or Cooking.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1.Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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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i.
her birthday—
steam curls from shared bowls
of wedges
ii.
her birthday—
scents of pizza & pasta
fill warm air
iii.
my sister’s birthday
on winter’s solstice—
cold cake & hot tea
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old family kitchen
the mixed pickle jar
gathering dust
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hometown train station
the loud pouring of chai
from each stall
**
food dumpster odor
a vagrant child’s stomach
growls and rumbles
Hifsa Ashraf
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Nathalie Buckland
winter sunshine
I pick the last lemon
from my tree
chocolate brownies
warm from the oven-
school holidays
slow cooker…
I shake dewdrops
from the thyme
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wintertide
the butcher smiles
smoking hams
-2-
sleet taps
at the kitchen window
crockpot stew
-3-
blustery winds
a steamy dance of colors
in the soup bowl
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winter solstice –
before coming home
the aroma of stew
2
solstice –
the steam from the food
made by grandma
3
winter –
while she prepares the sauce
grandpa drinks wine
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in from the cold
we warm our hands
round the oven
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hot out today
my onions tanning
in the heat
chiropractor –
the snapcracklepop
of his breakfast
depression
moving south, my cake
sinks with it
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winter equinox –
grandmom’s apple pie smell
in the air
2
boiled carrots –
a snowman melting
in the garden
3.
pop corn –
the short jumps of my puppy
in the kitchen
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