Lynette Arden

Echidna Tracks Issue 16 Summer/Autumn 2026 by Colleen Keating

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I am very proud to be included in the latest Echidna Tracks   and honoured to be included with these amazing poets and lovers of haiku

Edition  Issue 16,Summer/Autumn 2026

Editor  Lynette Arden on November 24, 2025

grandpa’s plum tree
in its shade his grandson
savours the sweetness

Vanessa Proctor

soft drumbeats
as the service ends
a boy’s glance upward

Jo McInerney

reading the ode—
a rising sun glitters
on his slouch hat

Colleen Keating

luminous skies . . .
the wilting wildflowers
on a soldier’s grave

Samantha Sirimanne Hyde

“Australia, in the twenty-first century, is a vibrant multicultural society.

We hope to celebrate, through the haiku/senryu collected on this website,

the diversity of lifestyles, values, characters, customs, cultures,

and historical experiences of the people inhabiting Australia,

as well as the diversity of our landscapes, flora, and fauna.”

 

 

Echidna Tracks Issue 11 Elements and Haiku

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Echidna Tracks No 11 has just concluded

Echidna Tracks Issue 11  edited by Gavin Austin and Marilyn Humbert. Thank you to them  for the time and passion for haiku and thanks especially to Lynette Arden  for the  joy Echnida Tracks gives us daily  at 6.30 am as a new gift arrives in our inbox

roosting lorikeets
chatter into the night
moon glow

Colleen Keating

among clouds
spoonbills
sweep the shallows

Colleen Keating

sickle moon—
barefoot around
a crescent beach

Colleen Keating

an ocean
to the other side
refugees

Colleen Keating

Love this direction for The Elements

Whether you are drawn to the ancient categories of Earth, Air, Fire and Water or are more at home with chemistry and current ideas in physics and cosmology; our theme deals with nature in the raw, the fundamentals of existence. Stone, soil, sea, wind and sky come to mind, as do energy, light, matter, electricity, space and time. Perhaps your world is an enchanted one; animated by spirit and containing magical and miraculous elements. You might also be open to the idea that the universe is composed of mind stuff, the stuff of which dreams are made, or is it all a mystery beyond words (though as aspiring poets we shall try). There is scope here to explore our place as thinking, feeling and social beings immersed in immensities and carried along in the flux of it all; the possibilities are endless and go to the heart of haiku. Take us into the heart of your universe, share your visions and wonder – leave us adazzle, quietly reflective and moved in one way or another…

Editors for Echidna Tracks Issue 11: Elements will be Gavin Austin and Marilyn Humbert.