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 
leaves gather
in the gutter
a ringtail possum
Leanne Mumford
Sydney
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a currawong drinks
from the enamel basin
community garden
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Arching
Above skyscrapers
Spring rainbow
Sidewalk dog
Outside the bakery I drop
My bread bag
Parking lot
On the windshield wiper
A pink robin
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equinox
new mandate for autumn
in the city park
Viktoriya Marinova, Bulgaria
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city landscape
autumn rain washes
cars on the street
Viktoriya Marinova, Bulgaria
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morning traffic queue…
overhead kookaburras
cackling
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a city train slows
thongs, boots, high heels compete
at the exit door
Beverley George
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bicycle path
a magpie avoids
eye contact
— Marietta McGregor
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schoolchildren’s protest
their hearts displayed
on recycled cardboard
— Marietta McGregor
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an old busker
in the half-lit subway …
city blues
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