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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Change of season.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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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 Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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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blossoming for bees
flowers full of beckoning
relays of kindness
tainted by old time,
confused trees half-red, half-green…
new climate, new rhythms
dreams unheard
and then the leaves fall –
are new fortunes born?
season’s end
one last butternut
swaddled in straw
welly boot walk
sliding furrows
through fallen leaves
autumn blush
virginia frames
a stained glass window
sundown
the sweet scent of
cut grass fading
*
blue-grey
a breeze picks up
to rattle the poppy seeds
*
into long grass
the shiny black back
of a beetle
winter mist…
a ray of light lifts
the darkness within
*
spring dusk…
the forest
is alive again
*
autumn dawn…
a tiger creeps up
bush by bush
Ganesh R.
falling leaves
deleting loved names
from my phone
*
autumn moon
the promises he made
all night long
*
autumn rain…
the garden windchimes
deepen my loneliness
Neena Singh
Chandigarh, India
Green buds start to show
Sun rises higher in the sky
Blossom everywhere
From green to golden
Glowing in the setting sun
Leaves start their goodbye
Fresh green is going
Hotter days drying out the ground
Summer is coming
at the hospice
the young priest squints into skies –
advent of spring
Natalia Kuznetsova ( Russia)
equinox moon –
first day at
my part time job
Steliana Cristina Voicu (Romania)