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 Tuesday, 21st June, 2022. The String will remain open for contributions until Tuesday 28th June to accommodate international poets who may wish to take part.
The string has now closed. Thanks to all the poets who shared their haiku. We are pleased to have contributions from many countries. While comments on haiku are welcomed while the string is open, comments that are not haiku have now been removed to make it easier for readers.
Haiku String – Instructions
The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Climate Change. We invite you to explore a multiplicity of ideas in the String without necessarily using the term climate change, 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1.Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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 2022 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.
earth warming —
a faded rainbow lines
the ocean floor
Rob Scott
Australian Haiku Society 
heat record
we hike
in the dry river bed
summer heat
my salad
leaves the leaves hanging
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mood swings
intermittent wind-
screen wipers
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drowning ice
crops surrender to the sun
sea life weeping
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thunder clouds shout
thirsty cracked mud
solemn wilting crops
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solar panel backdrops
sunburned landscape
thirsty prairies
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earth cries in floods
fields starve with thirst
crisis silence
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Judith M. Vance
Olympia, WA, USA
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my dream house
at the beach . . . slowly sinks
below the waves
Tom Staudt
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river bed…
a dust devil
tracks daylight
blood moon –
a hundred year bush fire
after five
climate clarity
the black and white swoop
of a currawong
Carole Harrison
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rescued hatchling
smaller than a man’s hand
scrolling through facebook
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Lyn Reeves
climate rally
my grandson’s voice
hoarse from shouting
duty of care
the judges dismiss
the children’s pleas
from tropical seas
to the Southern Ocean
fish migration
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up in smoke
old growth forest
koalas on the brink
high brow talks
raising the carbon dioxide levels
algal bloom
peeing
on the apple tree
carbon capture
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climate change
now she says
no
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– Chittaluri satyanarayana
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dry dam
a sheep carcass
lays to rest
parched earth
ploughed fields
on standby
tree clearing
so many lives
cut short
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