The Australian Haiku Society Winter Solstice Haiku String 2024 has now closed for entries. Thanks to all the poets for their contributions. Please enjoy the haiku!
The Australian Haiku Society welcomes contributions from haiku poets worldwide to the Winter Solstice Haiku String 2024.
We will be holding this Haiku String on the day of the Southern Hemisphere Winter Solstice, which occurs in Australia this year on Friday, June 21st, 2024. The string will remain open for contributions until Saturday, June 29th, 2024, to accommodate international poets who may wish to participate.
Haiku String – Instructions
The AHS invites you to share three of your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of ‘winter warmth’. Typical associations with winter are cold, darkness, frost, rain, bitter winds, storms, etc. Snow is a relatively rare occurrence for Australian poets. In many parts of our country, days during the winter months can be mild, and in the tropical north, the dry season is often a lot more comfortable than the wet season.
We invite you to explore a multiplicity of ideas in the String. The haiku will be linked by subject and theme. We also welcome response haiku written in reply to others already published in the string.
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 Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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 Autumn Equinox String 2023 assumes the following:
Copyright of each haiku/senryu remains with the author. We request nonexclusive permission to publish your work on the AHS website and republish it online at any time.
Theme: Winter Warmth
skinks and I
warming our backs
shortest day
Leanne Mumford
(first published Modern Haiku 51.3 2020)
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solstice night –
filling in the blanks
on an old sudoku
Sandra Simpson
deep winter –
startling me into an oh
the toilet seat
Sandra Simpson
first day of winter
discarded on the verge
a bbq
winter solstice
wardrobe change
socks and thongs
a warm welcome
for a returning convict…
the city’s who’s who
snow on the Christmas movie sizzling barbie
Alan Summers
too tired
to croak any more
longest night
hibernal solstice
the frail light
of southern cross
longest night
under my blanket
the languid cat
coffee shop’s
wide open door
shivering over our hot chocolate
six degrees
beanie and gloves
…morning walk
winter’s day
in the blue mountains
a grey thrush joins the tourists
Friday fire pit—
warm chit-chatter
and cold beer
from V.G. Derry June 25, 2024
June garden
dying hydrangea
has green buds
marble sky
trees wait silently
for warm Spring rain
winter sun
huddled by the heater
we book a holiday up north
shortest day
wrapping myself in
my longest scarf
fluffy slippers
opening the curtains
to a wall of fog
Louise Hopewell