International Haiku Poetry Day – Haiku String

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AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Solitude.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

  1. Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.
  2. Haiku should be posted in the comment box at the end of the post.
  3. 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

126 thoughts on “International Haiku Poetry Day – Haiku String”

  1. my fifty years
    Gabriel García Márquez
    keeps me company

    Alan Summers

    the moon is a river
    beyond the borders
    of my world

    Alan Summers

    sun-to rain-day
    two worlds together
    without me

    Alan Summers

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  4. empty house –
    jasmine sways
    occasionally

    solitude –
    noise left
    in the empty nest

    isolation –
    a virtual hug
    with my son
    Maria Teresa Sisti

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  5. pandemic –
    I remain in the zazen state
    all alone
    Vasile Moldovan

    alone at present –
    my children live in the future
    both parents in the past
    Vasile Moldovan

    running away from the world
    the poet has found refuge
    in his own haiku
    Vasile Moldovan

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  6. simplicity grows
    finding peace within your own
    be okay alone
    Christine Bialczak

    Days do start alone
    Spending time without others
    Days will end alone
    Christine Bialczak

    Peaceful from within
    One person to keep happy
    Survival solo
    Christine Bialczak

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