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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Change of season.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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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 Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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

destroyed cobweb
small boys run into flying
bullets
Myron Lysenko
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crisp dawn
my scarf infused
with the scent of mothballs
footy siren
picking the last
ripe tomato
swapping my stilettos
for comfy flats
40th birthday
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the pumpkin vine runs amok
a late summer riot
rising in the dark
the birds are barely stirring –
I miss summer
rain shrouds the sky
blankets on the beds
autumn
Penny Szentkuti
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autumn moon –
I watch one thousand stars
across the horizon
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snow bomb
a pine tree lets go
of its payload
Debbie Strange (Canada)
Happy Equinox to all!
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returning
her tanned face
In rear mirror
……………
mellow breeze
the sea shell on my palm
getting cool
……………….
noisy youngsters
attempt at falling leaves
grandma by the window
……………….
Lanka Siriwardana
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end of monsoon
a crow selects twigs
from the fallen nest
hottest summer
the farmer fast asleep
on the watermelon pile
spring walk
grandpa pulls the flowers
with his walking stick
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