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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Change of season.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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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 Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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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new coolness
a moth’s underside pressed
against the window
summer ends
the scent of roses
past their prime
days lengthen gradually the birdsong
the season’s rustle crackle whisper almost whoopee whistle riflebird
morning moonset
the black swan’s bill
blood red
leaving
a cygnet and I circle
the lake again
March winds
a dragon kite ascending
fills my screen saver
daylight savings
still out of balance from
the last time change
spring all things being equinox
winter solstice…
persistent chat
at the bar
a long tunnel—
driving from autumn
back to summer
spring equinox
a crow carefully gathers
twigs for its nest
groundbreaking
I take a photo
of the first tulip shoot
still leafless
but here and there
burgeoning birdsong
even the clouds
seem to scurry in joy
spring sunlight
out of control…
a hot march wind
fuels a bushfire
autumn nights…
magpies grumble
in their sleep
in a broken flowerpot
singing his lonely song…
the last cricket
moths arising
from my window ledge –
inherited home
lightning enlighten
the night sky –
late summer
bamboo leaves
fall swirling –
all in yellow
Nimali Perera
Sri Lanka
a halo
around each streetlight
hazy moon
*
first blossoms
i share a moment
with a stranger
*
sky glow
through wheat dust
the harvest moon
end of summer
my train seat
facing backward
***
a patch of snow
on the flower bed
first sprouts
***
rain snow or sun
at the name on the stone
he kneels in silence