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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Climate Change.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1.Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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

we freeze
while the Northern Hemisphere
bakes to a crisp
bird migration
why fly north
into drought
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even more space
in the canopy
deforestation
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.
dried waterway
a rushing stream
it once was
.
Tuyet Van Do – Australia
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longest night
becomes shortest –
her arrival
**
winter solstice
all them snuggle under
one blanket
**
winter solstice
hurry in fulfilling my
daydream
***
– Chittaluri Satyanarayana
Hyderabad, India
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a double rainbow
over the last polar bear
whisky on the rocks
Alan Summers
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A reply to Alan Summers & Myron Lysenko:
I pour a double whisky and contemplate refracted light
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Many thanks for your kind words and commentary. I also love that you have also kindly left comments on other posts, something I deeply appreciate too. warm regards, Alan
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below zero
the lifeguard’s chair
glitters with frost
*
rain bomb
another flood-mark
on the kitchen wall
*
endless heat
stars spark and sizzle
in the night
Ron C. Moss
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petals on the desk
the moon rises
again
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