Haiku Poems About Death | Death Haiku Poems

Haiku poems about Death and Death haiku poems. Read and enjoy these haikus! See also Death Quotes.

Fall

golden butterflies
wildly whirl in wanton wind -
leaves perform death dance


06-15-2014


Contest:      1 in 4: Choose your Season - Choose your Form
Sponsor:     Andrea Dietrich
Placement:  3rd

Hear the subtle cries
Slow death invades their terrain
Black lake mirrors event

seeded in battle
growing amongst the death mass
weep
no longer in grief

blooming blooming high
veiny stem all aglitter
she
will outlive your fray

trusting the true gale
in her dance she instills mirth
cry
for the joys of life


Laura Breidenthal
March 28, 2016
For Mystic Rose’s Split Haiku Contest

                                         swans on frozen lake

                                   ice crystals melt in sun rays -

                                    death.takes the weakest








                                  Three Lines - Poetry Contest
                      Sponsored by: Dear Heart a.k.aBroken Wings 
                                  ~ 1st place in the contest ~


29.10.2018
Sun :) - A-L Andresen :)

FROM DEATH TO LIFE

HIS FLESH

circumference of thorns
holes in hands ~  those healing palms
feet fastened – nail chains

HIS WORDS

Father forgive them
for they know not what they do
(And) It is finished

HIS DEATH

violent earthquake
up from the grave ~ walking dead
wind-sheered curtain splits

THREE DAYS

abysmal weeping
terrified person denies
the cock crows three times

EASTER SUNDAY

empty gaping hole
world’s paying attention now
dawning of new day

EVERY DAY

spurs our hearts and souls
salvation’s glorious hope
King of kings ~ all bow

Kim Rodrigues © 2017

With raised sword and shield,
The Norseman yells to Odin
The Viking Death Prayer*


 *  The Viking Death Prayer

Lo, there do I see my father.
Lo, there do I see my mother,
My sisters and my brothers.
Lo, there do I see the line of my people,
Back to the beginning.
Lo, they do call to me,
They bid me take my place among them
In the Halls of Valhalla,
Where the brave shall live forever,
Where thine enemies have been vanquished,
Nor shall we mourn but rejoice,
For those who have died
The glorious death.

The wind howls across
Heavy snow buries the world
and then deep silence

I liked this better:

screeching wind, death sings
heavy snow buries, survive
a deep silence mourns

    "Halloween Nightmare"



spooky silhouettes
encircle haunted castle
midnight chimes undead.

moonlight weaves silk web
coffins creaking eerily
fangs hunger for flesh.

wolves prowl echoing
witches swoop on straw broomsticks
ghosts glide on fright night.

magic spells enchant
beware! death looms chirps black crow
shadows lurk and lure.

misty night invades
dreams of trick or treat escape
Halloween Nightmare!


*For Tracie's Spooky Ku Contest

A pleasant evening
Romantic streets in Paris
Killed, done in cold blood


Picture as warzone
Music stops and ball rolling
A nightmares in live


The death in Paris
Fire with assault rifle
France close its borders








     * * * * * * * * * * * * * 


A definition of evil:  Goodness absence - No compassion
Are some people born without heart and becomes obsessed with the power of evil ?


Fear and crying
Gurgling stream of hate
My pain for the world
Give me your hand
Always by your side




14.11.2015 A-L Andresen :)
Copyright © All Rights Reserved

                    I sometimes wonder

           if they had lived, lives touched by

                     love, death into life









David Meade
Live Generously

      face, etched with deep lines
    dark sadness pools in the eyes
        lost in death daughter





For all who have loved and lost



David Meade
Live Generously

Life begins and ends
Birth, joy, laugh, cry, death and dust
Brief eclipse of time

A TALE THAT NEVER ENDS

barefoot on the beach
they hold hands amid moonbeams
I do said the two

their joints scream some pain 
tango is their most love dance
oldies but goodies

gray streaks kissed her hair
unmoved, he caressed her face
will death end their tale?

_______________________
© 
06:23 pm-- February 06, 2015

from ashes to dust 

the rebirth of the phoenix 

broken.now stronger 


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 


i wrote this one for a friend of mine 
she has been cheated on by her BF 4times 
and she asked me to write something this is it 

meaning : 
"from ashes to dust rebirth of the phoenix" - after the phoenix dies it burns and turn into 
ashes.if we have to believe the legend that after its death a new phoenix would rise out of 
the ashes of the old one

"broken" -.now stronger" well death is sadafter everything my friend gone through a 
part of her died

overall - 
she was " a new person is born after all the painand came out stronger 
stronger " =]

                                         A heart
                            learning language of love
                                    but also grief

                                       The grief
                            learning heart to go uphill
                                    death is heavy











20.10.2012
A-L  Andresen :)
Copyright © All Rights Reserved

life is the journey
and death its destination -
enjoy the ride folks


March 2015

To lose someone you love....
Its like trying to live violently among the peaceful people who are dying 
To lose someone you love....
Its like Im living in lies with laughter and happiness while Im truthfully sitting in anger and pain while crying
 Im grounded in shame yet Im still airborn with death together we flying 
Its hurts when one dies past groundshaken proximity under the hate but sent with earthshattering love above
 where we live to die yet we are born to survive where we bred to learn to get past all the ones we have lost with hate because ITS REALLY HURTS TO LOSE SOMEONE YOU LOVE.

Love your neighbor as you love yourself
What happened to our mind set?
She’s an infant not a cure for aids
She’s pure why forcefully snitch her virginity 
Respect our women you selfish men

South Africa you’ve made a name for yourself “rape capital” 
Let us unite against rape and restore our good name
My beloved South Africans unite!
Unite against women and child abuse
One person raped is one too many

Anene Boysens, your death united the nations
United, they condemned discrimination against women
They said” every girl has a right to be respected and protected against women abuse”
How long should we take this barbaric conduct?  
We owe it to all the victims to fight this disease

Woe to your power assertive rapists
Woe to you anger retaliation rapists
Woe to you sadistic rapists
Woe to you juvenile sex offenders
Woe to you women offenders	

14 February after sun set a word went forth
Rapists have no place in South Africa
February 15, 2013 declared a black Friday
We shall remain black until we defeat rape
Victory is within our reach, fight against rape.

King David was completely forgiven for his sin by God
     But still had to endure the death 
     of his child as punishment.

flirtatious finesse

frosted feathery lashes

frozen in death mask




Poetry contest:  Get Romantic
Visual No 7

   

   a single white rose
   purity gained victory
   red rose in death throes


   The County of Yorkshire England.
               George Seal.



   union designed
   saints andrew george and patrick
   three flags intertwined


   The United Kingdom
         George Seal

pretty flowers grew
in a garden window box-

                                                                          death by drowning rain




____________________
June 17, 2015


Poetry/Haiku/pretty flowers
Copyright Protected, ID 15--6826-29-0
All Rights Reserved Written Under Pseudonym.


For the contest, Picture Perfect Haiku #2, 
sponsor, Skat 

Second Place 

Cupcake Oh Cupcake 
Your loving licks, your loving smile
Bright black beaming eyes 

Petals of a pet
Leaping leaves of slight limbs
Running white roses

You glow as milk moon
Waxing and waning with clouds
Paws reminding rain

Time spent together true
Bird of death claimed you too soon
We scrub in sadness

Memories mark joy 
You shine as forever heart
We love you dear friend!

Lenient light beings
Persistently beside one
Aware and secure

Acquaint themselves once
Nevermore in physical
But still their warmth counts

Coeval as I am
Complexities become plain
Chosen among few

Descend with desire
Defy death a countless times
Illumine spirit

Linger up below
Feeling within and beyond
Omnipresent glow

out on the porch
listening to nature
does the owl hoot Sara?  

From the book entitled "I Heard the Owl Call My Name"
By Margaret Craven
Kwakiatl native American tribe's belief
when death is imminent that the Owl 
calls one's name..

Sponsor: Richard Lamoureux
Contest: Questionku
Last line a question..
I bet you were not expecting this...

Lotus life birth Breath
Pond shakes earthquake storm movement
Locus destruction death exhale

 DEATH WISH HAIKU (AS Musical History of Cigarettes)
L.S.M.F.T.
Snooky Lanson sang it clear
smoke in every ear.

From your Hit Parade,
Frank Sinatra blew the words one time
Didn't Fence Him In.

Dorothy Collin's voice
America there's only one to smoke
Lucky Strike's the one.

Drifting up her nose
pulling smoke into her lung
biting on her tongue

what is she doing?
coffins closing in with nails
death as slow as snails.

Do you want a Lucky?
More satisfaction pleasure
undertakers measure.

Camel smoke was nil
More Doctors smoked  Lucky Strikes
Than Mike Hammer smoked.

Nicotine all day
tie hers up in Christmas bows
blow it out her nose.

Free on Navy ships
Sailors never saw the light
Though the match was free.

vanity of faith
human death deemed serving God
Isis statue weeps

Brian Johnston
Nov 17, 2015

life to death to life
seasons spinning round and round-
circles everywhere

Flaming shperiods descend
As the clouds swirl frenziedly
Uprooting erections

The seas withdraw then rise
To swallow the earth
As death enters

The grounds depart
To sail the seas
As ember paints the skies

harvesting moon
the death of a friend's sister
a lost jigsaw piece

Life does not get easier
and death does not simplify.
But take it on.

    under dressed cold
war besieged African child
    death is a constant

Me..closed box..death hangs*, 
Heartless dreamers can't see in
Bastards! Am I dead?


Poet's Notes:

A famous thought experiment in Physics in which the life or death of Schridinger's 
Cat (an imaginary animal) in a box depends on unpredictable chanceThe 
experiment unimpeded, the cat will die, the question is only whenThe larger 
issue however, is that since no one can see what has actually happened, the 
actual state of the cat is unknown and hence can only be discussed in terms of 
the probability of the cat being either dead or aliveAnd probability ends the 
earlier mechanistic view of both God and His creationGod is no longer black and 
white, color has returned to His cheeks.**

* hangs - like the sword of Damocles, capable of falling randomly at any instant.

** see my earlier poem 'Black Body' for an even more poetic discussion.

Grey bowed wing heron

lands as sentry of quick death ~

pickerels dart deep

The bell rang                 
It was time to go
Everyone was happy
'Goodbye teacher Pendo'
'See you tomorrow'


Oh! My poor soul
That died every night
The brutal death without mercy
I was a fighter
But not after dusk


I walked home
Knowing my death awaited me
I knew he would kill me again
Leaving me in pain
My everyday death


He was ruthless
I lived by his rules
I really did try to live
But I still died every night


He drank not from his well
He blamed me
For not cooperating
He stole from another man's well
My unknown man's well


I died every night
Died in the arms of a man
A man I called my main man
The man I called my step father

The internal fire
searing away life's pain
change summers forest

born into the world
contemplating renewal
ice covered rivers

all seasons cycle
pain love life feeling anger
eternal rhythm

bright autumn color
death brings life and renewal
pain will fade away

hope reborn once again
upon springs breath fresh flowers
life from the seedling

universes wide
internal contemplating
fish climb the river

many seasons live
through trials tribulations
death birth renewal

possibility
thought sparks creation expands
reality comes

the high of summer
sun triggered mania floating
as raging river

hot summer sunlight
river deprived of water
emotion dries up

life's changing seasons
shortcoming in emotion
through seasons cycle

fading pain emerge
life simple delusions made
forever change seasons

universe expand
knowledge create and destruct
chill grow burning fading

depressions winter
ever turmoil emotion
ebb flow night day spin

seasons always change
contemplating life death
universe expand

spaced thoughts are crazy
emotion fighting the storm
neon night pale day

wrecked ships wander
through the winters fog & mists
silent channels drift

coming through turmoil
ride the storm the hurricane
expand horizons

collaborative
pain processed is therapy
growing from rebirth

fighting sanity
come insanity take home
forever to heart

the thoughts that process
never ending demons will run
collision nova

turbulent wind storm
shutters thrown open release
fear pain life death love

consuming feelings
season driven tolerance
change in fall and spring

tolerance for mood
patience empathy perceive
winter and summer

collision course set
new medication hinders
emergence changes

therapy consoles
soul full of turmoil and change
growth changed perception

frustrated anger
hot and long like summers heat
burns living forests

lashed out judgmental
like frog tongues catch flies and food
and ponds clear water (narcissism)

racing through insights
visions clear from universe
emotion has passed

struggle the outside
fury within emotion
body change season

temperament wild
raging storms, fire burns, whiteout
collides in fury

a long time waiting 
an answer born in voices
science or spirit

invasion of dreams
war new names fear demons wake
interfere with life

reality changed
committed to a course plan
bumps along the way

mountains far distance
filled with peaks and valleys the path
treaded with caution

move forward future
never stepping back from fear
ghosts do not haunt me

Sisters and brothers 
Eradicated with hate 
Chimneys spewing death 

  "Skeleton Tree"

withered branches wane
buried bones beneath tree trunk
mummified death chant.

legends lifeless limbs
haunted hurricane swallowed
breath of bloom denied.

whispered memories
hidden skeletal remains
infest tainted tree.

brittle branches bough
parched to perish in black dust
screams in effigy.


*For Nathan's Skeleton Tree Contest.
*Written by:  Linda-Marie The "Sweetheart" of P.S.

Many fear loss,
I fear death indeed...not knowing
when it'll come.

I'll tell you whats wrong with the world today, Everyone all caught up in texing facebook and all this here say.

People so busy with their lives and making money, Did you dumb asses forget why GOD put u here it isnt even funny.

Whether you believe in GOD or not were here for one thing, its about showing love not whose got the biggest bling

GOD gave me one gift its called I keep it real, I'll call you out on your stuff and tell you how I feel.

Pick a topic any topic and I'll spit my shit, the only question is can you handle it.

If I had my way theirs a few things I would do, Get rid of the death penalty, change the drug laws, put child molesters on an island alone just to name a few.

 People can change this I know, We all got love its in our SOUL.

I Fell Into My Grave While You Watched


To fall down into the endless abyss
Your staying to watch me as I drift away from the world I once knew
What am I doing I losing control I'm going without word
Why do you watch from afar laughing as though my pain is some pleasure?
Is this the end of me? shall I die here ?
Why is it you watch me why is it you do not save me.I see you watching with a smile.
I thought it was love maybe it was greed that made you push me down down into my grave.
You seem happy maybe it because I'm dead?Yes that it
I'm happy again I was feared death but now i see it as pleasure
Why are you crying can't you not see me smile your tears or vain to me
I'm smiling as I see you suffer you killed me and now your paying for it
Here you are now you can stay by my side forever
I'm happy even more since you came now we can float together in this endless void you created
I can see your back to your old none selfish self may we both smile more

to live forever
where death has no conception
imagination

Babe, you know I love you right?
I can't seem to say it enough.
I want to be a part of you, like be absorbed
Into your skin or somethingIs that crazy?

I love you so much, I would die the worst
Possible death for you.
I will always be here for you always and
Forever.
I don't want to lose you ever! you are my 
Life now.
You are the only one keeping me alive,
Letting me be myself, no matter how crazy it
Gets.
You have opened your heart up to me, and
You have taught me a lot.
You also taught me I don't have to be so
Shy, but I amI am working on that.

And baby I love to cuddle, love to kiss
You and hug youI love to talk to you,
And I love laughing with you.
I love the way you smile, the way you laugh,
The way you smell, the way you  play with me,
The way you talk.
The way you are so fearless, and
How you are so flawless, and
How you are so flawless and perfect.
I love everything about you, and I don't want 
You to chance anything!
Oh yeah and babe, I love it when you play
With my heair! Is that too weird?
I LOVE DUSTIN JAMES PALMER!

So my big brother
Samuel James, goes
by the name Sam, he
Started out as my friend,
but now he's my big
brother; the one who's
always there, the one
who will always stick up
for me, and help me anyway
he can, will never do me
wrong, always true, always
honest, always the Big Brother
I love forever~n~always,
To death and beyondm and that beyond
is eternallySam you always
know how to make me happy it's
hard not to laugh around you, then put
you and my sexy hubby together & it's
so funny, and fun, and Priceless.
I see a family full of love,
the one who can never hurt me,
The one who is amazing and fun to be around,
I love you Big Brother Sam!
Always~N~Forever,
Briana Lynn Palmer
~Dustin's Wife~
11-19-11
12:16A.M.
15almost16

Flint-lock alarm clock,
A blooming Lotus whispers,
Speaking while death knocks.

Enter the Grineer,
Led by their slaver captain,
Vor, whom they revere.

Servant to his Queens,
Seeking hope for his clone race,
Corrupted by greed.

Pure vampiric thirst,
Stalking sacred metal crypts,
For our holy blood.

To be clapped in chains,
Seconds after waking is,
A harsh good morning.

My power's severed,
Soft as a petal she stirs,
Polarizing shifts.

Tingling fingertips,
An awakening occurs,
Underneath my skin.

When my hands extend,
The earth quivers before me,
Laws of physics yield.

Between explosions,
And a daring escape plan,
I find my freedom.

My own dingy ship,
At least I have a first mate,
Ordis and his...friend.

Soundless we wander,
Waging war for the Tenos,
At Lotus's command.

Vor's campaign will end,
By the hands of gravity,
Tremble before me.

Life is but a dream, while rowing down the stream
 Better to flow along in life’s mystery, some call it destiny
 The present is a gift, if you catch my drift
 Watch your flanks, as life & death are your banks
 ‘Cause your reserves are vested in your life preserve’s

topple me over
burning from ones arrogance 
a sad forests death 

Within the night sky
Blue moon beams on silver wings
Silhouette it's hunt
Silent death in strong talons
Wings you never hear coming

A good book takes you
far away to unknown lands.
Tears are shedDeath felt.

The fights are fearsome.
Futuristic tragedy
and past lives burst through.

Love stories flourish.
Characters become your friends.
History unfolds

Puzzle pieces shift
Clues hidden within the page
Space is tangible.