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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Climate Change.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1.Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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

solstice …
the goose sleeps
with half brain awake
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young mum deciding
fluffy nappies on the line
or the earth’s future?
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old river …
in slow water
a stones path
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strip lights burn
above out-of-stock slips
supermarket
Gavin Austin
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smoke haze
our government tells us
this country’s always had fires
climate rally
your tiny fingers
warm in mine
yet another
unprecedented heatwave
melting ice-cream
Louise Hopewell
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jumping the gun summer heat
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bushland …
exotic vines tangle
across the path
Vanessa Proctor
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blue ice—
the slogans that fade
into silence
kiln smoke…
the horizon turns
into the blackhole
wind of change
the birdsong echoes
through the floating ice
Hifsa Ashraf
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