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AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Solitude.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- Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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

an empty seat
looks out at the pond
longing to share
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overcoming pain
entwined in solitude
a wild primrose blooms
Paul Callus
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moonbeams
the trace of loss
in nightfall
Joanna Ashwell
nothing to say
the wind stirs
fallen blossom
Joanna Ashwell
two odd spoons
bounce the light
through rainfall
Joanna Ashwell
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so loud
the silence…
crescent moon
Margaret Mahony
FaceTime
something to
dress up for
Margaret Mahony
I bake an apple pie
no one to eat it
but me
Margaret Mahony
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self isolating . . .
I sing a lullaby
to me
lockdown—
my thoughts fly away
with a flutter of sparrows
corona death—
the family mourns
in isolation
—Corine Timmer (Portugal/The Netherlands)
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loving mother
the meal for her son
by no-touch taxi
.
Xenia Tran
.
.
solitude
nothing but birdsong
lining the hills
.
Xenia Tran
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isolation ward –
a songbird views
the cherry blossoms
.
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
USA
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