AHS invites you to share with us your original haiku about City Life. This is a wide-ranging topic. We invite you to explore a multiplicity of ideas in the String without using the words ‘city life’.
The haiku will be linked by the subject City Life. It is not necessary for each haiku to relate to the one before it.
- 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 Autumn Equinox Haiku String 2019 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.
this late in the year
summer heat . . .
distant traffic thrums
Ross Clark
Australian Haiku Society 
bat night
a red sun dips
into martini
Alan Summers
Bats do cities! I remember the fruit bats of Ipswich, Queensland, one night, tens of thousands of them, or more, on a blood red Hammer Horror type sky, wonderful!
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green traffic light…
a street dog walks along
the zebra crossing
Svetla Pencheva
Bulgaria
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weaving through
the crowded subway
violin song
Lucy Whitehead
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big issue seller
once more I pretend
I’ve no small change
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week-end over
the pre-dawn clang
of dumpsters
.
Ingrid Baluchi
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back alley pub
the yowls of cats
fighting outside
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subway terminals
foetal figures
of the homeless
.
Ingrid Baluchi
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glass world
the three acts
of twilight
Alan Summers
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glass sky
the moon shatters
all illusions
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