Today, 17th April 2020, we are celebrating International Haiku Poetry Day by holding a String on the theme of ‘Solitude’. By sharing our haiku we can connect with each other, even in these days of social distancing, self-isolation and working and studying from home.
So that international poets may take part, the String will remain open until Sunday,19th AEST.
AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Solitude. We invite you to explore a multiplicity of ideas on this theme without necessarily using the word ‘solitude’.
The haiku should be linked by the subject of Solitude. It is not necessary for each haiku to relate to the one before it.
Haiku String – Instructions
- Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.
- Haiku should be posted in the comment box at the end of the post.
- Each poem 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 International Haiku String 2020 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.
adding
to my loneliness –
falling leaves
Rob Scott
DISAPPEARANCE
disappearing child
strange forests are frightening
plains flat and lonely
COVID
during ‘great lockdown’
creativity soaring
giving morale wings
in cries for relief
songs and jokes bring lost laughter
soothe for fearful hearts
Phil Saunders
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I didn’t included my name earlier, so reposting. Sorry for this mistake.
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solitude-
a thread pulls off
her bantering
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assuming sun
in daisies –
lockdown
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morphing the globe koi in a pond
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Neelam Dadhwal,
India
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* a red letter box
porch became prussian blue, words
are unfrequented
* last evening, leaves fell
and cicadas went to sleep
festoon lights faded
* radio stopped, and
paper boats were lost in rain
‘now close the shutter’
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