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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu on the theme of Clouds.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The AHS invites you to share with us your original, previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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 Please contribute up to three of your best previously unpublished haiku or senryu.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

clouds in the sky
singing
magpie chorus
foam abounds
poof…the liquid rises
spring cocktail
ice cream memories
clouds float with glee
sand, so course beneath me
Rowan P. Ogeil
Australia
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Grey sea over the jet
Cotton wakes and suds
Bursting with tears
Foreign eyes
Lands unknown
Same clouds
Leaded storm and clouds
A note in the windshield:
“Come now, it’s cold.”
Carlos Garcia – QLD. Australia
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balcony garden
speaking to clouds
loss shaped
meadow clouds
arrangement of soft light
passing through
cloudy spring
holding on a flower bed
late rain
Ian William L., Australia
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little cloud
chasing mother
summer twilight
autumn clouds
comforting my father
cremation tower
cloud
move a little
you disturb us
Nilmini Siriwardane
Sri Lanka
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now a horse
then a rabbit
to my childhood
clouds
heavy with raindrops
quarrel continues
with my burden
letting the clouds
float away
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Lanka Siriwardana from Sri Lanka
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besties’ road trip
dark clouds chase us
across the desert
footpath clouds
a chalk rainbow
in her palms
each cloud
has its own dark shadow
sky diving
Louise Hopewell, Melbourne
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dust cloud
a line of palm trees
rattles the wind
blue-sky-day
my neighbours’ argument
recedes with their car
red hat
the old woman
suddenly visible
Lynette Arden
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