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

“most liveable city”
. . . and yet every hour
has become rush hour
.
– Lorin Ford
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backyard campout . . .
we fall asleep counting
the ghosts of stars
.
the flash
of a stranger’s smile . . .
sun shower
.
office tower . . .
a peregrine nests outside
my window
.
Debbie Strange
Canada
Happy Equinox to all!
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far from the mall—
a teddy bear resting
on a bollard
Alan Summers
My third and last haiku!
Discovery today, even toy bears get to breathe fresh air sometimes.
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vinyl wallpaper
in the cramped sitting room
countryside teaser
window cleaning
where high buildings dominate-
voyeur indulgence
break of dawn
outlined against the sky
my thoughts take shape
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toes
in the sand
– urban beach
Roberta Beach Jacobson, USA
~~~
not a cow in sight
Roberta Beach Jacobson, USA
~~~
even
the hedges
are concrete
Roberta Beach Jacobson, USA
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vertical trail
from a glass elevator
cliff side viewpoints
Rick Daddario
Kailua, Hawai’i USA
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feeding animals
before the big game
we tailgate
Rick Daddario
Kailua, Hawai’i USA
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