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.

Haiku String – Instructions

Much remains uncertain as we head into the holiday season, with a worldwide pandemic and increasing stress on the environment. Many will head towards the water to cool off in the southern hemisphere, while people will seek warmth or revel in the snow in the northern hemisphere.

This may also be a time of reflection. What can we control in our own lives and the world beyond? The relationship between humans and the rest of the natural world has never been more critical.

The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu. 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 Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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 Summer 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.

beach umbrella
tying down
the wind

Lynette Arden

Linocut: Lynette Arden. Haiku was published first in World Haiku Review March 2010 and subsequently anthologised including Third Australian Haiku Anthology (2011), A Vast Sky (2015).

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67 thoughts on “AHS Summer Solstice Haiku String 2021”

  1. Flowers attention
    Petals hold your positions
    Long day ahead

    Mother’s bemoan
    Babies like reptiles
    Opaque blinds pulled

    Earth leans her ear in
    Sun retreats
    Keeps her secret

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  2. longest lockdown
    summer roses tapping
    at the window

    birds sing
    we can’t hear
    traffic lights

    heavy clouds fall
    into the eucalypts
    omicron

    Bee Jay

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  3. between christmas
    and new year silence
    for crows

    wind in the she-oaks
    down this beach track
    – humming an old tune

    dawn chorus
    refusing to count
    syllables

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  4. a dragonfly
    circles a pond
    endless night

    knowing the sea
    by what it can erase
    shifting sands

    translating my poem
    in my mother tongue
    summer solstice

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  5. scorpio and orion
    in sight
    a meteor

    On a sunny day
    bird flys over gingko
    stereo vision

    stake the tomatoes
    in garden
    the blue tongue licks its lips

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  7. wildlife alert
    total fire ban
    floods down under

    white butterfly
    sits on my lettuce leaf –
    too long

    melting wind
    summer sand and wisps of hair
    in her ice cream

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