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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Clouds.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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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 Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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

dark clouds
ashes of burnt homes
with the sudden rain
ethnic crisis
the evening sky mingles
with the flaming town
sterile clouds
don’t you know the hills
are all burnt
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roll clouds
the tumbling words
of our goodbyes
curdled clouds
she dresses the baby
for her funeral
cloud watching we reshape our dreams
Christine L. Villa, USA
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mountain village
a steeple pecking
at the stratus
Debbie Strange
Canada
Happy Equinox to all!
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changing mood of clouds spring dream
blossoming clouds last remains of frost
spring shadow
early bumps
in the cloud
Kenneth Daniels
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seeking clarity
jumbled thoughts cloud judgement
white noise
striking against blue
rugged peaks atop cloud bank
mountaineers challenge
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purple clouds at dusk
watch the horizon
toast to my queen
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balancing on sea saw
the leaves change colour
between dawn and dusk
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