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AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Solitude.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- Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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

Wasp bumping against fly screen
I am safe from harm
In isolation
Jacquelyne Tea
Social distancing
-the new norm, revelling in
Self isolation
Jacquelyne Tea
What is made at night
Shines intricately by day
Two spiders weaving
Jacquelyne Tea
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Posted for Quendryth Young
sea and sky
an incoming wave
and I
crowded room
the pocket of air
around me
forest walk
sharing my breath
with the figs
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isolation…
the company
of clouds
Lyn Reeves
social distancing
I shout across the fence
to my deaf neighbour
Lyn Reeves
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deserted street …
the play of light
on wet tarmac
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morning quiet …
a blossom’s wet mouth
at the window
Carol Raisfeld
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the world reduced
to 4 walls and a porthole–
plague ship
10th floor window…
alone she gazes out unseeing–
despair
Philip Schofield
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inside myself
alone with these thoughts
that used to be ours
Carol Raisfeld
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