Autumn Equinox Haiku String 2021

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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Life’s Journey.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1.Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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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104 thoughts on “Autumn Equinox Haiku String 2021”

  2. dark berries
    on spiky twigs — this season
    of life

    Katherine Raine

    autumn finches
    migrating — do you feel sad
    or just sound sad?

    Katherine Raine

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  3. Brown leaves crowd the path
    Mourning, cheering, laying down
    Autumn’s food for spring

    -Kash Thomson

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  4. these tiny shoes…
    doof music
    from her bedroom

    moving house—
    their changing heights
    still marked on that jamb

    shortening days
    a lizard pauses
    on my log-pile

    Nathalie Buckland

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  6. 1.
    same shapes
    of clouds in movement …
    another autumn

    2.
    silent dusk
    the sides of leaves
    while falling

    3.
    return to home
    how many leaves
    at my doorway

    Daniela Misso

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  7. 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
    *
    peterbouchier.wordpress.com

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