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AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Solitude.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- Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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

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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sudden solitude
sunrise as usual
on time
-Lakshmi Iyer
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loneliness…
cherry blossoms
cheer the mountains
-Lakshmi Iyer
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a blind girl
her shadows lost
in another solitude
-Lakshmi Iyer
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time with my horses
Covid disappears
in our moments
Myra King
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thinking away –
all around me
just dry leaves
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#stayhome
the last leaf falls
from the elm
lockdown
making friends
with solitude
outside my window
a banksia full of lorikeets
home quarantine
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pandemic sunrise
a rose glow
on empty streets
Jahan Tyson
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nighthawk arcs
across indigo
the freedom of dreams
Jahan Tyson
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