This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Tasmanian poet and artist, Ron C. Moss.
old horses
days of endless rain
in their eyes
tangerine sunset
a small boy gallops
his stick-pony home
fire duty
the newly ironed shirt
still warm
starglow . . .
pieces of whale bone
worn smooth
sudden thunder
the harmonica player
bends a note
– Ron C. Moss
I would like to congratulate all the winners and thank everyone who participated in the summer solstice kukai. I looked for some interesting and somewhat different images this year, hoping that the responses would also be of a similar nature, and I’m pleased to say the winner’s list reflects just that. The seasonal image was captured looking from the porthole of the Earnslaw, a 1912 Edwardian twin-screw steamer based at Lake Wakatipu in Queenstown, New Zealand – a stunning cruise if you ever get the chance to view one of the most beautiful places in the world.
1st Place
childhood
the things locked
behind time’s door
Gavin Austin
I really enjoyed such a clear and well-stated emotional poem that resonated with the strong solid image of the door. The poet uses an interesting phrase, time’s door, suggesting that so much is locked away in secret places over the passing of time. Combined with the single word first line, childhood, this is very nicely conceived poem and an interesting connection to the image, creating an effective haiga.
Continue reading “Results of the AHS 2023 Summer Solstice Haiga Kukai: Non-Seasonal”I would like to congratulate all the winners and thank everyone who participated in the summer solstice kukai. I looked for some interesting and somewhat different images this year, hoping that the responses would also be of a similar nature, and I’m pleased to say the winner’s list reflects just that. The seasonal image was captured looking from the porthole of the Earnslaw, a 1912 Edwardian twin-screw steamer based at Lake Wakatipu in Queenstown, New Zealand – a stunning cruise if you ever get the chance to view one of the most beautiful places in the world.
1st Place
wind-snapped sky—
out by the heads
the seal colony barking
Sandra Simpson
From the very first reading, I was taken by the original opening line, wind-snapped, which is a perfect description of the sharpness and power of a blue sky. The poet places us in a nautical setting with the haiku, artfully creating a subtle double meaning with out by the heads, which is of course a land mass, and perhaps also the seals barking their heads off! Such fun and a worthy winner that works very well with the seed image and, rather than describing the image, gives us a strong shift to another place with beautiful descriptive language.
Continue reading “Results of the AHS 2023 Summer Solstice Haiga Kukai: Seasonal”Welcome, haiku poets worldwide to the Australian Haiku Society Summer Solstice Haiga Kukai. Entries close on midnight 29th of December AEST.
This competition has now closed. Ron C. Moss will judge the entries.
You are invited to write a haiku in response to the image by Ron C. Moss.
Enter no more than one haiku per image. Haiku entered should not have been published previously in print or online, including in discussion forums. If you enter more than one haiku per image, only your first haiku will be considered.
Your name should appear on your entry as you would like to see it on the website.
The winning haiku will be displayed on the AHS website.
Continue reading “AHS Summer Solstice Haiga Kukai 2023 Seasonal”
Welcome, haiku poets worldwide to the Australian Haiku Society Summer Solstice Haiga Kukai. Entries close on midnight 29th of December AEST.
This competition has now closed. Ron C. Moss will judge the entries.
You are invited to write a haiku in response to the image by Ron C. Moss.
Enter no more than one haiku per image. Haiku entered should not have been published previously in print or online, including in discussion forums. If you enter more than one haiku per image, only your first haiku will be considered.
Your name should appear on your entry as you would like to see it on the website.
The winning haiku will be displayed on the AHS website.
Continue reading “AHS Summer Solstice Haiga Kukai 2023 Non-Seasonal”
Dear Members,
I am delighted to be able to announce the winners of the 2022 John Bird Dreaming Award for Haiku. The response to the competition was fantastic once again, and I would like to extend a huge thanks to all poets for contributing their poems.
Continue reading “Results of the 2022 John Bird Dreaming Award for Haiku”
1st Place
neap tide
the moon’s tug
on our blood
Marietta McGregor
There was an interesting mix of entries for the seasonal kukai. When reading through the poems, I’m always looking for those that resonate and have elements of shift and link, as well as those in which the two parts of the image and words merge into something stronger together. With Marietta’s haiku we are tantalised with a word that is not all that well known – neap tide – a period when moderate tides occur, usually seven days after a spring tide. The wonderful moon’s tug connects us with the universe and celestial bodies – the tug on our blood and the flow of tide all governed by the moon. Such a powerful poem resonates on many levels with the image and I’m thankful for the poet’s deep seeing.
Welcome, haiku poets worldwide to the Australian Haiku Society Summer Solstice Haiga Kukai. Entries close on midnight 30th of December AEST.
You are invited to write a haiku in response to the image by Ron C. Moss.
Enter no more than one haiku per image. Haiku entered should not have been published previously in print or online, including in discussion forums. If you enter more than one haiku per image, only your first haiku will be considered.
Your name should appear on your entry as you would like to see it on the website.
The winning haiku will be displayed on the AHS website.
Continue reading “AHS Summer Solstice Haiga Kukai 2022 Seasonal”
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