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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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 Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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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a bird in flight
under the high sun
shadow on the ground
summer solstice
the crowd awaits
the sea splash
*
summer bath
the many colors of
beach suntan
*
summer solstice
the garbage trolley overflows
of ice-cream cups
Ramesh Anand (India)
*
full moon
at the bottom of my pocket
an olive
a short day
ends ~ the singing of the embers
in the fireplace
Illuminations
the white mistletoe
announce Christmas
drooping sunflower
the moon and I
dodge each other
*
a magpie’s wrath…
the flustered dog
scoots in
*
purple swamphen
keeping mum on her toes
a gleeful toddler
all those lily pads
just one golden flower
fills the lily pond
surfing low down
the lazy curl of a wave
slakes the heat
humidity flattens me
under the Christmas tree
I elope with santa
Όuzό cόcktails
at end όf year celebratiόns
sharing the lόve
Wanda Amos, NSW Australia
summer kiting-
unleashing the dog
on the beach
hope-
in a war zone
children at play
Christmastime-
a few days void of
talks about covid
a shady spot
book in hand
time to reflect
eucalypt leaves
tattered and torn
Christmas beetles
beneath the she-oak
husks and a black feather
wet spell
the magic of mushrooms
Carol Reynolds
Australia
in a window
the old man
wearing a coat
cicada songs
at the day’s edge –
door to door
Orion arm –
shoot around it
the Milky way
Florin Golban (România)