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AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Solitude.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- Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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

glimpsing blue
between window bars
an inmate writes home
Jahan Tyson
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” …supalooooonely”
blaring from the window …
self-isolation
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Natalia Kuznetsova
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social distance
love & kisses in my palm
rock art
in the park
hugging a tree
Covid 19
social isolation
the butcher birds
still visiting
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sipping chai
I chat
…with my cat
Tom Staudt
alone on a bench
a magpie
shares my solitude
Tom Staudt
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still morning
not even the birds
are singing
Rose van Son
days of lime
and lemon
isolation walk
Rose van Son
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Covid19 in a bed
an isolating cat
fills the void left
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morning walk
along empty streets
the dog enjoys the freedom
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