A note to poets entering this competition. Please include your name below your haiku. An email address will not be counted as a name. If you make a mistake when entering, please enter your work again, including a note.
Welcome, haiku poets worldwide, to the Australian Haiku Society Winter Solstice Haiga Kukai 2025. The competition starts today, 21 June, in Australia. It will be open for eight days, including today, to allow haiku poets in Australia and abroad to contribute their haiku. The competition will close at 1 am on 29 June ACST (Australian Central Standard Time). To avoid missing out, please ensure you have entered your haiku in good time, as the competition cannot be reopened once it closes automatically. Please read the guidelines carefully.
You are invited to write one haiku in response to the image by Wanda Amos.
Your name should appear on your entry as you want to see it on the website.
Enter one haiku only. Haiku entered should not have been published previously in print or online, including in discussion forums. If you make a mistake in your haiku, please post it again, including a note to disregard your first entry.
To enter, post your haiku in the comment box. Scroll to the bottom of the page to find the comment box.
The winning haiku will be displayed on the AHS website.
By entering the competition, entrants agree to make their haiku available for display on the AHS website, although the copyright will remain with the author.
No correspondence will be entered into regarding winning entries.
Good luck and enjoy!
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Autumn’s last breath
whispering its farewell
to the birch leaf
Damayanthi Ambepitiya. – Sri Lanka
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Sharyn Jones
Sombre skies
solitary dancer
twirls upon her twig
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Please disregard my earlier post, it looks wrong. Here is a repost:
Hi All,
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Last leaf like my faith
Holding on to what once was
As the storm returns
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Domino
Sydney, Australia
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Hi All,
What a striking image xx
Last leaf like my faith
Holding on to what once was
As the storm returns
Domino
Sydney, Australia
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Dear Reader, since my initial submission was not processed and displayed incorrectly as one continuous line without the line-breaks, without spaces between the separate lines, I hereby repost my poem. Hopefully it will now be accepted & displayed correctly:
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midwinter dusk
just out of the toddler’s reach
a frosted leaf
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Mikō (The Netherlands)
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a lonely leaf
sign of a snow storm
looming darkness
Ramya Attanayake
Sri Lanka
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winter sky
refugee adds a patch
to the blanket
Lăcrămioara
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