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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Change of season.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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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 Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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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Indian summer
adorned with new feathers
the scarecrow’s hat
leaf after leaf
the gentle summer’s way
to say goodbye
end of summer
on the outside rocking chair
a woolen shawl
Mirela Brailean
Romania
golden autumn sun
still dancing to the music
when the song is done
autumn leaves
skipping down the lane
a gay wind
Martius moon
another season of missiles
and shredded blossom
change in season
airing the doonas
labyrinth
another turn
an acorn thuds
***
warm
anticipation
firewood stacked
***
watching
the swooping magpie
… not the pole
autumnal equinox –
last rose fades
under the rain
~
new season –
the crunch of leaves
maybe your steps
~
equinox –
another summer
silent goes away
Maria Teresa Sisti (Italy )
the seesaw
briefly in balance
vernal equinox
crows alight
on the headstone
early frost
falling leaves
a couple embraces
against the tree
spring show
a bee chooses
her pansies over mine
*
end of winter
a terrace laced with
sun soaked quilts
*
mango blossoms
the trees swell up
with koel’s song
equinox
between snowflakes
bluebirds
**
sun dog
blossom viewing
in the snow
**
staying
in their lane
returning geese
marilyn ashbaugh (heartland, usa)
hurricane season
the same politician
promising homes
tropical winter again
my grey hopes
become green
summer games
we blow dandelion puffballs
a cypsela shower
Autumn Spent in a Foreign Country
I think of distance
when the red sedum blossoms,
tall gifts of summer.
Welcoming cool winds,
fading flowers to golden,
I hear your far voice.
The blossoms are gone
now, in time and memory.
You still call me home.