Southern Cross

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Haiku below the Southern Cross

***** Location: Southern Hemisphere

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Explanation


Information about people and haiku events from the Southern Hemisphere


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www.uq.edu.au/_School_Science_Lessons/year6.html


Thanks go to Linda Morey Papanicolaou from Haigaonline for the inspiration!

The Southern Cross (Crux) is that distinctive configuration of stars that we know on the flags of Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and many other Southern Hemisphere countries. It's an important constellation, always there if you live below 34° southern latitude, the stars of its vertical axis pointing the way to the South Pole.
haigaonline 7-2

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Adjustments for Northern and Southern Hemisphere

If there is not specifical mention, a calendar reference kigo in the database refers to the Northern Hemisphere as its place of origin.
For the Southern Hemisphere, add six months.
December or short night are kigo for mid-summer in the Southern Hemisphere, for example.

For a calendar reference kigo originating in the Southern Hemisphere, add six months to get to its Northern counterpart.
These adjustments will not be mentioned specifically for each kigo.

Calendar reference kigo are for example the names of each month and then the many festivals of a specific date and the memorial days. Japanese haiku poets up from the North of Hokkaido down to the South of Okinawa have no problem when using DECEMBER as a kigo within the convention of writing haiku, for example.

Where ever you are, write haiku true to your situation and experience.
Haiku competitions should make adjustments by stating the place of composition for all submission.


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Try your hand at the daily Wordwise and Haiku challenges, with great book prizes offered by Southern Cross University Press up for grabs each day.

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Southern Hemisphere


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Africa

Haiga by MOIRA RICHARDS, ZA, South Africa

see also Kenya Saijiki below.


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Australia

WKD : Australian Saijiki


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Brazil


South American Saijiki


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Hawaii

poettree BLOG
Shanna Baldwin-Moore

WKD : Hawaii Saijiki


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Kenya

Look at the Haiga from Kenya here !
　©　Haiga Online Issue 7-2

WKD : Kenya, Africa and Tropical Saijiki


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New Zealand

WKD : New Zealand


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South America


SOUTH AMERICAN SAIJIKI


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Trinidad and Tobago


Trinidad and Tobago Saijiki


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Uruguay

Carlos Fleitas was born in Uruguay, South America and still resides there in Montevideo, which is Uruguay's capital city. He writes haiku, prose, and essays in both Spanish and English.

Read more here:
Carlos Fleitas


noche sin luna
marcha por el sendero
la Vía Láctea

Carlos, A diez kilómetros de Jose Ignacio
22 diciembre 2006.

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Things found on the way


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HAIKU

between Orion & Crux a jumbo's lights

—Ross Clark, Brisbane, Australia


...however a fulcrom
in this confused world:
the Southern Crox

Vasile Moldovan

http://tinywords.com/haiku/2006/12/19/

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(under the Southern Cross)
by Gábor Terebess: Haiku in the Luggage

At night, don't look up —
the sky is the sky even
without the Great Bear.

Winter is summer,
snowless is your Christmas here,
as in Betlehem.

Please read the full sequence HERE !

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southern cross-
a drover shares the universe
with his dog

john bird, australia
　©　Wollumbin Haiku Workshop, 2006

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...Yet, there is a fulcrom
in this solitary world:
the Southern Cross

Vasile Moldovan, Romania, 2007


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