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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Clouds.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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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 Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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.

wandering
under a cloud of white hair
yet not alone
Carol Reynolds
Australia
(nod to Wordsworth)
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sitting on a cloud
lighting up the night
our tide turner
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the whites
and blues of pansies
scattered clouds
Tom Staudt
Sydney, Australia
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islands of fog
in the gullies—
morning train
cerulean sky—
the white
of ibis wings
spring sunshine…
how our old dog
would have basked
Leanne Mumford
Sydney, Australia
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smell of ocean
still in the air where
clouds once were
curt linderman
seattle
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day of rain
the clouds take refuge
in the puddles
*
Sea mist
the reflection of clouds
in my glass
*
waning moon
the grey clouds ride on
the rising tide
Françoise Maurice, France
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scuttling clouds
my last diary entry
is an escape
Alan Summers
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