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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Climate Change.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1.Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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

subliminal groans
an ice shelf calves
a bigger iceberg
.
small change . . .
will anyone miss
this pygmy possum?
.
mountain tarn
a peat bog gasps
its last
.
Marietta McGregor
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dredging up the past fossil fuel
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robbing Peter to pay Paul fossil fuel
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holy water
oceans, rivers, lakes
and a flood of tears
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winter chill
the old argument
re air conditioning
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the Hay Plains—
surprised to find cotton fields
this far south
old river red gums—
waiting for the flood
that never comes
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the flower shivers
as ground retreats under her
seas sweep her away
esther ratner
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