The Australian Haiku Society welcomes contributions from haiku poets worldwide to the Autumn Equinox Haiku String.
We will be holding this Haiku String during the day of the Southern Hemisphere Autumn Equinox, occurring in Australia this year on Saturday, 20th March, 2021. The String will remain open for contributions until Sunday 28th March to accommodate international poets who may wish to take part.
The Haiku String has now closed. Thank you to all the poets and please enjoy the contributions.
Haiku String – Instructions
The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Life’s Journey. We invite you to explore a multiplicity of ideas in the String without necessarily using the term life’s journey, though you may if you wish.
The haiku will be linked by the subject of Life’s Journey. It is not necessary for each haiku to relate to the one before it.
1.Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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 as you wish it to appear.
Posting your work in the AHS Autumn Equinox String 2021 assumes the following:
Copyright of each haiku remains with the author. We request nonexclusive permission to publish your work on the AHS website and to republish it online at any future time.
autumn leaves…
reconsidering
the path I’ve chosen
Rob Scott
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Reflection
haiku sequence by Peter Bouchier, Netherlands
whispering water
lighting up the horizon
colourful dawning
comforting water
makes you want to drift away
homeward from your job
ferry to and fro
making you an offering
you cannot refuse
which way will you go?
find yourself a new future
or run from your past?
you’ll only bounce back
endlessly doubting which shore
you will set foot on
just accept your fate
your place in society
depending on you
look at the water
how it reflects all colours
for your eyes only
be free as a wave
rolling between the shore lines
finding its own way
there is a future
as bright as a fresh new dawn
on the horizon
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peterbouchier.wordpress.com
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the ant
in a floating leaf
life goes on
**
amidst stars
and stars, my life
a sprinkle of stardust
**
mountain stream
I cupped my hands
water flow continues
Ram Chandran
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pinked sky glints
over barren tree shapes
robin song greets spring
Colleen M. Chesebro, MI, USA
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pandemic . . .
when I die
yesterday
Manoj Sharma
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rushing
through the last pages
chill wind
….
stop over
on the long flight
scattered birdseed
….
first snowflake
the last leaf
settles
Peggy Hale Bilbro
Alabama USA
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counting regrets
one page at a time
high school yearbook
she plays
a song from childhood
out-of-tune piano
scuffed tile
the nurse’s dash
to code blue
Tom Bierovic
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silk
a dead moth weaves
into a peacock
autumn
the old man’s walking stick
reclines forever
a raven’s call
the burial ground
refilled again
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lotus pose
today my right hip
speaks to me
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equinox walk
a worm half in and half out
of its hole
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winter jacket
shudders life beneath
for better morrow
**
rustle and coil
silence this spirit endless
agitation
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end of the month
think of your empty
coffers
Radhamani sarma
Chennai
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