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 
monorail
a rapid sweep through the smog
monotony again
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Fall equinox:
sweeping the sidewalk
one step ahead of me
the smell of bread
Peggy Bilbro USA
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Roman graves…
the main street reconstruction
takes ages
(much of the old part of Ljubljana is built on Roman remains)
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city walls
against the rain
no defence
Roger Watson, Kingston-upon-Hull, UK
frogs
after the rain
even on city streets
Roger Watson, Kingston-upon-Hull, UK
town fair
waltzers spinning
and candy floss
Roger Watson, Kingston-upon-Hull, UK
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City of seven hills
Clatter of chestnut
ringing on the cobbles
Stanislava P. Gancheva, Bulgaria
Sunset flares up
in Ethnographical museum
Weep of violins
Stanislava P. Gancheva, Bulgaria
In autumn morning
sleep with a singing fountain
antique lanterns
Stanislava P. Gancheva, Bulgaria
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shrieking sirens
how calmly pigeons feed
at the fountain
Sonam Chhoki, Bhutan
filled with the glow
of changing traffic lights
an empty shop window
Sonam Chhoki, Bhutan
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carnival dancers
slipping into shadows
a cicada
.
Martha Magenta
.
.
grey skies—
the supermoon
on YouTube
.
Martha Magenta
.
.
a picnic
in the park
sparrows
.
Martha Magenta
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after hours
the row of ants and I
sharing cubicle
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equinox Moon
the ancient castle
looks brand new
on cobbled streets
our steps so loud—
first frosty night
Marina Bellini, Mantua, Italy
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summer stars
the familiar face
of a stranger
separating
one dream from another
crossword puzzle
the cold gathering
under the streetlight
cicadas’ chatter
Pragya Vishnoi
India
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1.
traffic lights
gears in my
active life
2.
milkman
counting his luck
is it the aged cow?
3.
trees silently
aspire to stand
witness to accidents
Lakshmi Iyer
Chennai
India
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