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AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Solitude.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- Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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

Airlie Jane Kirkham
Adelaide
light overcomes darkness
each new day
new hope, fresh purpose
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Airlie Jane Kirkham
Adelaide
alone, forsaken
cocooned in our love
all three of us
Airlie Jane Kirkham
Adelaide
Isolation
dark as death in grief
no one calls
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billie holiday
in my solitude
is loud
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both knowing
whose at fault
Dogwood blooms
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on the seventh day
God rested and said
What have I done?
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a long time ago
this world began with a bang
bang bang
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bushwalk surprise
deer stares, waits
keeping his distance
Di Adams
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Yea though I walk
in the valley so blue
I still have you
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