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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Change of season.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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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 Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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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first rain –
my sweat clinging
to the cat’s fur
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cicada…
in the empty house
his presence
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fades hydrangea …
velvet of roses
scattered in the wind
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mom’s house –
nostalgia smells
of apples
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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
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the season’s rustle crackle whisper almost whoopee whistle riflebird
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morning moonset
the black swan’s bill
blood red
leaving
a cygnet and I circle
the lake again
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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
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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
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