Moving Mountains is another wonderful YouTube collaboration offered for your enjoyment. All haiku by Michael Dylan Welch & Ron C. Moss with photography by Ron C. Moss. This superb presentation is accompanied by Robert Schumann’s Op. 15 No. 12 performed by Steve Hodge. You might also like to peruse some of Ron’s many other YouTube creations listed along with this one.
Month: December 2021
AHS Summer Solstice Haiku String 2021
The Australian Haiku Society welcomes contributions from haiku poets worldwide to the Summer Solstice Haiku String.
We will be holding this Haiku String during the day of the Southern Hemisphere Summer Solstice, occurring in Australia this year on Wednesday, 22nd December 2021. The String will remain open for contributions until Tuesday 28th December to accommodate international poets who may wish to take part.
Contributions to the haiku string have now closed. Thank you to all the participating poets. Please enjoy the haiku.
Preliminary Notice: AHS Summer Solstice Haiku String 2021
The Australian Haiku Society welcomes contributions from haiku poets worldwide to the Summer Solstice Haiku String.
We will be holding the Haiku String during the day of the Southern Hemisphere Summer Solstice, which occurs in Australia this year on Wednesday 22nd December, 2021. The String will remain open for contributions until Monday 28th December to accommodate international poets who may wish to take part. Contributions may be made on the website during these dates only (not before).
Continue reading “Preliminary Notice: AHS Summer Solstice Haiku String 2021”
White Pebbles Summer Meeting
December 2021
What a delight it was to meet up with fellow members for our summer meeting at our regular venue, the Gosford/Edogawa Commemorative Gardens and Regional Gallery. Regrettably, and for understood and respected reasons, several of our members were unable to attend and they were missed. Present were Kent Robinson, Samantha Hyde, Gwen Bitti, Verna Rieschild and Beverley George. A welcome guest was poet Michael Thorley.
Samantha Sirimanne Hyde, Kent Robinson
Haiku @ The Oaks, Canberra
Tuesday,14 December 2021
The end of the year already, and what a year! Despite all, it was such joy to welcome each other again as we gathered beneath the bird-squawking trees at The Oaks–Hazel Hall, Marietta McGregor, Gregory Piko, Glenys Ferguson, and Jan Dobb. We missed Kathy Kituai who could not be with us but who was much in our thoughts.
During our relaxed conversations of haiku and life, which seemed appropriate for an end-of-year gathering, little gifts and greetings were exchanged across the table to express our appreciation of the bonding we’ve come to experience. Friendship in haiku is certainly something special.
Then came the big highlight of the day!
Illawong Haiku Group Summer Ginko
Illawong Haiku Group held their Christmas gathering on Wednesday 8th December at the home of member, Alison Miller. Along the streetscape her house was not dissimilar to neighbouring homes until you walked through the gate. Aside from two small grassed areas in the front and backyard it was like entering a botanical oasis in suburbia. An abundance of colour, shapes and textures.
Tributes: Dr Jacqui Murray
Dr Jacqui Murray: Patron of the Australian Haiku Society, spent many years running the JAL Children’s Haiku Contests in Australia, thus forging a generation of enthusiastic and talented haiku poets.
Alongside her many achievements in the promotion of haiku in this country and overseas she also co-edited The Third Australian Haiku Anthology (paperwasp:2011) and the anthology still heading out: an anthology of Australian and New Zealand haiku, two remarkable collections amongst others that she was instrumental in producing.
Australian Haiku Society 