The Australian Haiku Society welcomes contributions from haiku poets worldwide to the Spring Equinox Haiku String 2023.
We will be holding this Haiku String during the day of the Southern Hemisphere Spring Equinox, which occurs in Australia this year on Saturday, 23rd September 2023. The String will remain open for contributions until Sunday, 1st October 2023, to accommodate international poets who may wish to take part.
The AHS Spring Equinox Haiku String has now closed. Please enjoy the contributions.
Haiku String – Instructions
The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Clouds. We invite you to explore a multiplicity of ideas in the String.
Theme: Clouds
scotch on the rocks
a cloud slowly
changes shape
Rob Scott
The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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 Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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 Spring 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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ahead of the thunderhead rainbow lorikeets
– Lorin Ford
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Clouds of dreary suits
A cold drizzle of small talk.
The weather at work.
Swirling finger cloud
Flicking objects off the map.
The mad chase the hand.
Icarus exclaimed,
“It’s all flat! Let’s spread the news…!”
Cloud conspiracies.
Bill Thoo
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coldest rarest clouds are back
noctilucent,
look to the North
Alan Summers
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full moon
fleeting clouds
a barn owl toots
I cycle home
a cloud obscures the sun
for a minute
dark clouds
no silver linings
time for tea
Marjolein Rotsteeg
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birch leaves touch
azure skies
dragon clouds smile
ideas emerge
under clouds and stars
an orchid blooms
the full moon
waves
kissing a sun cloud
Clarissa Jakobsons
Ohio USA
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midges
wherever we camp . . .
clouds of
teased clouds
the way she fluffs up
her doonas
in the ploughshare’s wake
the rise and fall
of a cloud of gulls
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drifts of dreams
soiled by
an ominous gray
//
the clouds
with dark spots –
fallen angels
//
clouds
on a sunny day –
recalling life’s frailties
Bonnie J Scherer
Alaska USA
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