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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Clouds.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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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 Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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.
Australian Haiku Society 
The sun peaks through clouds
He shyly eyes his lover;
returns to cloud nine
Distant memories
Sunny to partly cloudy
Her son moved away
He saw a spaceship
Floating not so far away
It was just a cloud
Christina Clark, USA
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just before
the clouds take over
a glimpse of the stars
mother’s birthday
a passing cloud rains softly
near my window
the part of me
gone with you
drifting cloud
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father’s Gregory Peck
hairstyle in cloud characters
spring
*
spring clouds
the balloon rides
colours of rainbow
*
retribution
his cloud of grief
in italics
*
Lakshmi Iyer, India
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September 26, 2023
Dear Ms. Arden,
Thank you for the opportunity to share haiku in the Australian Haiku Society Spring Equinox Haiku String 2023.
These haiku include the following kigo:
*National Wattle Day
*gigantic columns of clouds
*cloudy on the deutzia blossoms
Source: World Kigo Database, Dr. Gabi Greve, Daruma Museum, Japan.
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over arvo tea
on National Wattle Day—
Kalti Paarti clouds
*****
deep in the canal . . .
gigantic columns of clouds
watch my soaring kite
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suddenly cloudy
on the deutzia blossoms—
cuckoo sings my joy
*****
Sincerely,
Monica Kakkar
India and USA
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the hammer and ball
of cumulonimbus
flattens my ego
cloudy day —
he asks his son
who are you?
this herringbone sky
perhaps a sign
for me to branch out
— Tony Steven Williams
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sultry noon . . .
blending rainclouds
with my mocktail
– Bipasha Majumder (De)
2
an elephant
turned into a dragon . . .
cloud tale
– Bipasha Majumder (De)
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breathed from damp
land, morning clouds
mill like teenagers
shape of a fish
becomes a gargoyle
in the breeze
glaze on my friand
sticky and sugar-glossy
reflects clouds
Kirsten Johnston
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