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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Clouds.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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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 Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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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sakura clouds…
my boat meets
your boat
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children games…
a baby dragon cloud
bites the moon
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my app gets error…
clouds of milk foam
on my cappuccino
Steliana Cristina Voicu
Ploiesti, Romania
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shifting clouds
the black dog shuffles
into the shade
free
from daily routine
clouds
the carnival
is over
candyfloss clouds
wanda amos
Australia
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letting my brush choose where to place the cloud
Sheila Barksdale U.K.
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mondegreen clouds
the nankeen kestrels still
hovering hovering
Alan Summers
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a spring sky
a cloud of fish
childhood memories
*
under the starry
of the Planetarium
without clouds
*
being struck
by building with
a cloudless sky
Barbara Anna Gaiardoni
Verona – Italy
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an isolated group
of seven clouds
Pleiades
a distant band
of cloud peaks
snowy mountains
cloud pinnacles
Nauru
phosphate mined
Rohan Buettel
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small talk
cumulonimbus turns
abruptly cirrus
cloud bank
all my treasure
laid up in heaven
climate change
not a cloud
in the sky
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