The Australian Haiku Society welcomes contributions from haiku poets worldwide to the Autumn Equinox Haiku String 2023.
We will be holding this Haiku String during the day of the Southern Hemisphere Autumn Equinox, which occurs in Australia this year on Tuesday, 21st March 2023. The String will remain open for contributions until Thursday, 30th March 2023, to accommodate international poets who may wish to take part.
The string has now closed. Thanks to all the poets who generously contributed their work to this event.
Please enjoy the haiku!
Haiku String – Instructions
The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Change of season. We invite you to explore a multiplicity of ideas in the String.
Theme: Change of season
end of summer
thistledown caught
in a spider’s web
Jill Cartwright
The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu. The haiku will be linked by subject and theme. 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 Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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 2023 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.
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a gust of dry wind
on an autumn evening …
this sudden tears
autumn dusk
the boat takes the shape
of a black swan
new moon . . .
drunk since evening
stars and I
Milan Rajkumar
Imphal, India
What’s said can crush me
My faith a fake protection
From malicious words
Your scornful reproach
No longer to scar my soul
Dishonours you thus
A lemon to crush
Then add that gin to savour
Cheers to all my dears
chill wind
a single camellia blooms
beside the pool
birds squabble—
a shower of tiny fruit
from the old fig
sun shower
a yellow leaf
alights on my page
Nathalie Buckland
A hint in the air
Of Summer’s one last hoorah
As daytime light dims
COVD test
for fifteen minutes
Ravel’s Bolero
Mother’s Day
she wants one rose
next to Dad’s urn
new coolness
a spider’s web
catches the wind
leaf-fall…
how light spins
into mulch
Earl Livings
glass walking-cane
umbilical barley-twist
holding on to summer
dawn twilight—
my dreams still scented
with sakura
—–
summer end
the sun’s warmth
curled in bush clovers
—–
autumn wind
i get carried off
bit by bit
—–
Subir Ningthouja,
Imphal, India
flights cancelled
witches begin riding
on brooms again
Chen Xiaoou (china)
chilly breeze
a spider’s thread
shifts the moonlight
Lynette Arden