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AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Solitude.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- Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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
Australian Haiku Society 
solitude
living life by the
dandelion clock
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turning a page
a sip of tea
cold as the day
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shape shifting clouds
somewhere in the silence
my errant muse
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burnt sienna
lost in the poetry
autumn weaves
*
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Self isolation
sitting in the morning sun
watching the world pass
Time for the garden
New seedlings waiting for me
to sing them a song.
Few planes fly over
singing their enticing songs.
Dreams still can travel.
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self distancing
discussing haiku
with my cat
lockdown
one hundred and one ways
to cook lentils
exotic —
trip to the supermarket
and back
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I teach
my cat to speak
she arches the back
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corona season
waiting for the second
all-clear
*
tuning out talk radio tree frogs
*
pop-up shower
the daily drip drip drip
of nightly news
Margaret Dornaus
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Solitude haiku
I am so lonely
even the mirror scares me
showing no picture
Bente Nesgaard
Denmark
Look – a speck of dust
dancing in the rays of sun
I talk to myself
Bente Nesgaard
Denmark
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mighty oak
in acres of ripening wheat
another silent spring
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