AHS invites you to share with us your original haiku about Change, a subject that is particularly pertinent at the end of the year. This is a wide-ranging topic. We invite you to explore a multiplicity of ideas in the String without using the word ‘change’.
The haiku will be linked by the subject Change. It is not necessary for each haiku to relate to the one before it.
Thank you for your contributions to the AHS Summer Solstice Haiku String 2018 on ‘change’. The String is now closed for contributions, but please enjoy the haiku in the String. Contributors have come from both Australia and many other countries, which is reflected in the diverse range of haiku.
- Please contribute up to three of your best haiku.
- Haiku should be posted in the comment box at the end of the post.
- Haiku posted must be original work by the poet making the post. Please include your name below each haiku as you wish it to appear.
Posting your work in the AHS Summer Solstice Haiku String 2018 assumes the following:
Copyright of each haiku remains with the author. We request nonexclusive permission to publish your work on AHS website and to republish it in any future online collections on the AHS website.
old town rivulet
its banks overrun
with forget-me-nots
Lyn Reeves

Sydney’s weather map
with nasty yellow arrows
southerly buster !
– William Stephens
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Ramona be mine
– William Stephens
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new calendar
hangs on the old hook
no hospital visits yet
Giddy Nielsen-Sweep
flowers
in the vase so long
they send out roots
Giddy Nielsen-Sweep
butcherbirds
bring their babies
reliable food supply
Giddy Nielsen-Sweep
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pond palette—
a flyaway stone splashes
into a new ripple
-Rashmi Vesa
summer evening—
slowly the mountain moves
with the sun
-Rashmi Vesa
shifting dunes
a gutsy wind recarves
old sand grains
-Rashmi Vesa
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midsummer gale
flip of elephant ears
suitcase lids
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nearing sunset . . .
the giant shadows
of the ants
Lynette Arden
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hearing aids on ~
the garden fills
with birdsong
Lynette Arden
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southerly buster
the front and back doors
slam
Lynette Arden
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