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AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Solitude.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- Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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

picture-postcard
this mountain backdrop to
armchair travel
Jane Williams
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home alone
the sunshine shares a flock
of silvereyes
Jan Dobb
sprout of green
from a blackened eucalypt
the quietness
Jan Dobb
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optimistic
my neighbour sanitises
her letterbox
Jane Williams
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lockdown –
birdsong louder
than traffic
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in sleep out
infected
no cuddles
partner’s got covid
she thinks
alone
Jenny Pyatt
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this patch of sun—
the pleasure
of sitting still
bright morning
only tyre marks
in my driveway
from gloved hand
to gloved hand
a bunch of flowers
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a drag queen
in costume putting out
the bins
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