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 
an empty seat
looks out at the pond
longing to share
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equinox —
watching the half & half
swirl in the cup
somehow less equal
than when I was younger —
autumn equinox
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window shopping –
exchanging smiles
through the glass
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
USA
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River Thames
the rush and flow
of tourists
Lucy Whitehead
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famous poet’s house
no-one gets off
the tourist bus
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dwindling daylight
creeping up tower blocks
fluorescent-lit floors
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one wish
my last coin
in the fountain
Barbara Tate
park bench
a two o’clock shadow
holds my hand
Barbara Tate
street festival
a trail of ants cross
against the light
Barbara Tate
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bus stop puddle
a dog’s tongue
ripples the clouds
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