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AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Solitude.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 Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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