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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Change of season.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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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 Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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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sun moving north
evenings getting longer
time for books again
morning mist and dew
the cold creeping inside
with spiders and mice
dewdrops hanging
from the spider’s web
a piece of art
Marjolein Rotsteeg
spring breeze
the shared love for
cherry blossoms
fall sunshine
the questions I have
across seasons
winter silence
creaking of my joints
breaks the lull
The seasons changing
Are these changes out of range?
Dead dogs cry for rain
– Freon Holderlin
On behalf of Quendryth Young
cooling eddy …
treading leaf-fall
back to soil
dancing breeze
a hoop pine seed
glides in to land
his and hers
crossing pathways
of equal length
Quendryth Young
Here are my three haiku poems:
an overcast sky
frogs clear their throats
in dyied drains
dusk falling
the scarecrow ready
for a sleepless night
forest canopy
a doe the moonlight
tiptoeing beneath
Padmasiri Jayathilaka
Sri Lanka.
1.
do hymn
an autumn sound
while the children sleep
Barbara Anna Gaiardoni (Verona – Italy)
2.
a bad joke –
the summer flowers
depart
Barbara Anna Gaiardoni (Verona – Italy)
3.
among friends –
a lone tree greets
the Harvest Moon
Barbara Anna Gaiardoni (Verona – Italy)
change of season
a few more wrinkles
at the corner of the eyes
end of summer lights
the song of the starlings
in the pomegranate
over a black coffee
the hullabaloo of thoughts
sleepless nights
Françoise Maurice (France )
change of season
my yellow orchid
in full bloom
Margaret Mahony
in hot sun and cool
elegant, the tall slender bodies
balancing gourds
a spring trip
to America to visit a special friend
squirrels on the grass
piled high.
at the gate Halloween Pumpkins
and an honesty box.
Kelvin waves,
Madden-Julian oscillation
Seas at equator
Clouds once again – now
Steady rain, cool breeze through trees
Don’t need ceiling fan
Humid afternoon
Schools circle near the surface
Follow slow currents