AHS Winter Solstice Haiku String 2024

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The AHS invites you to share three of your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of  ‘winter warmth’.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 Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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)