Thank you for your contributions to the AHS Spring Equinox Haiku String 2020 on ‘Early Spring’. The String is now closed for contributions, but please enjoy the haiku in the String. Contributors have come from Australia and many other countries, which is reflected in the diverse range of haiku.
The Australian Haiku Society welcomes contributions from haiku poets worldwide to the AHS Spring Equinox Haiku String 2020.
We will be holding a Haiku String during the day of the Southern Hemisphere Spring Equinox, which occurs in Australia on Tuesday, 22rd September 2020. The String will remain open for contributions until Friday 25th September to accommodate international poets who may wish to take part. Contributions may be made on the website during these dates (not before).
Spring Equinox Haiku String – Instructions
AHS invites you to share with us your original haiku or senryu on the theme of ‘Early Spring’. We invite you to explore a multiplicity of ideas in the String without necessarily using the words ‘early spring’.
The haiku will be linked by the subject Early Spring. It is not necessary for each haiku to relate to the one before it.
- Please contribute up to three of your best haiku or senryu.
- Haiku should be posted in the comment box at the end of the post. Click on the header to go to the full post and find the comment box.
- Haiku 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 Spring Equinox 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.
xxxxxxfirst day of spring
xxxxxxon someone’s shoulders
xxxxxxa toddler
xxxxxxxxxxxxRob Scott
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two birds caliing
early spring arrivals
five notes each
Gina Louis
early spring rain
tapping a dance
on my window
Gina Louis
an upturned parasol
first plum blossom
hiding a bee
Gina Louis
a sad snowman
lost in its seclusion …
first thaw
Natalia Kuznetsova
the thin skin of ice
will be broken in the dawn
heated by sunbeams
temperature difference
cause noises in the sunrise
listening in bed
black birds are singing
wakes me up at four o’clock
sublimely alarming
Rolf Baum
Uppsala, Sweden
two cabbage whites
flutter side by side…
life is in bloom
Tom Staudt
first bright spring day
banjos and whistles
fill the pond
*
under the bridge
fresh paint hides the graffiti
first sign of spring
*
spring is on its way
the rocket goes to seed
my lawn needs cutting
foggy morning
all the gazanias
tight tipped
Lynette Arden
what colour
the magpie’s song
in dancing sunlight?
Lynette Arden
shadows of daffodils
flicker on the blinds
nursing home
Lynette Arden
Pasquale Asprea – Genoa
The sparrow
on a plum branch –
spring equinox
wild flowers
secretly blossoms
a new love
fairy-wren —
inside the bowl
rose petals
life on the moon
first strands of rice
above the water
early spring
dripping in icicles
the sunlight
first swallows –
my old straw hat
much thinned
Mirela Brăilean