Australian Haiku
chameleon rose
Mother’s hair sparkles
in half light
Rose van Son
her fingers wrapped
around mine
our mother’s hands
Julia Wakefield
nursing home
we hold hands
for the first time
Julia Wakefield
mother’s passing
the crumbling mortar
of our family home
Maureen Sexton
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in the back-and-forth
of folding sheets – mother
all to herself
Karen Blaylock
family history
examining them
in my mirror
Quendryth Young
in the fridge
acorns from his
childhood home
Laurel Astle
family album
behind the smiling faces
Ballina’s Big Prawn
Tuyet Van Do
one-horse town
the barista wears
a gaucho hat
Sabrina Blom
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spiral globe
with a faint green glow
can’t you sleep either
Alex McKeown
blood moon
last time we watched it rise
together
Lyn Reeves
a friend’s shoulder
where your tears rest
meteor shower
Bett Angel-Stawarz
moon fog
the call of the duck
on the wild river
Ross Coward
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moonlight sonata—
the ballerina
I could have been
Lysa Collins
fairy tale book
my old enchantment
flown away
Quendryth Young
nearly fifty
more behind me than in front
the strange ride home
Esther Ottaway
moonrise
an old lady
takes the staircase
Jeanie Axton
her cane at rest a bed full of flying dreams
Alice Wanderer
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bareback . . .
the high country passes
at a slow c a n t e r
Lorin Ford
thundercloud
the black mare’s forelegs
strike the sky
Jennifer Sutherland
brumbies
earmarked for culling
sniff the wind
Keitha Keyes
white brushstrokes
on spring sky
mares’ tails in full gallop
Pip Griffin
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Simon Hanson and Marilyn Humbert will be the haiku editors for this issue. We invite your best and previously unpublished haiku/senryu on any topic that stirs your imagination. If you choose a seasonal reference, it should be compatible with the publication’s Summer/Autumn time frame.
Please submit your haiku/senryu on the form available on the submissions page throughout September 2024. Submissions will only be received via the submissions form. Submissions have now closed for Echidna Tracks: Issue 14 Summer/Autumn 2025.
Echidna Tracks: Issue 14 Summer/Autumn 2025 will be published on 6 January 2025.
Anyone can submit work, but as this is a website for the collection of Australian haiku, the work we are looking for will come from an authentic experience of living in or visiting Australia. Unfortunately, we cannot consider your submission if we cannot verify an Australian connection. See About Echidna Tracks
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