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AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Solitude.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 Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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

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126 thoughts on “International Haiku Poetry Day – Haiku String”

  3. the church
    echoes with quiet solemnity
    a pew creaks

    Stella Damarjati

    grey clouds
    drift by casting shadows
    a dog barks

    Stella Damarjati

    raven’s caw
    the silent train platform
    stands empty

    Stella Damarjati

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  4. Social distancing
    supports not your mental health –
    maintain the balance

    Michael Gerard

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  5. thick mist
    a day for going nowhere
    and seeing no-one

    I talk to myself
    there’s no-one else here
    worth talking to

    Sunday morning
    a long laze & at eleven
    Test Match Special

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  8. Bluegrey morning sun –
    my mothers phonenumber
    still on my mobile

    Lit by a streetlamp –
    the plum blossoms
    share their pain with me

    Passing the place
    of yesterdays haiku –
    still not quite right

    – Ulla Conrad, Copenhagen

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  9. .
    .
    sudden solitude
    sunrise as usual
    on time

    -Lakshmi Iyer
    .
    .

    loneliness…
    cherry blossoms
    cheer the mountains

    -Lakshmi Iyer
    .
    .

    a blind girl
    her shadows lost
    in another solitude

    -Lakshmi Iyer

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