Haiku Examples by Web Poets
Poem Details | by
Asif Andalib |
Categories:
inspirational, people, political, visionary,
We need to control
Environment pollution
By hook or by crook
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Poem Details | by
Rickie Elpusan |
Categories:
nature, seasons,
liquid little stones
skipping and skittering free
on shared umbrellas
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Poem Details | by
Jacqueline R. Mendoza |
Categories:
black african american, christian, devotion, faith,
Judicial Branch
Legislative Branch
Executive Branch
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Poem Details | by
Carolyn Devonshire |
Categories:
natural disasters, nature
Gullies scar brown earth
Hurricanes bring erosion
Of both soil and lives
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Poem Details | by
Ernesto P. Santiago |
Categories:
life, nature, social,
shallownaturexistence
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Poem Details | by
SKAT A |
Categories:
beauty, dream, muse, romantic, sea, together, vanity,
~twice the beauty~
in the sea of love
reflection of the night
a wave moves
~SKAT~
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Poem Details | by
Scott Simmerman |
Categories:
business, metaphor, work,
Teamwork could happen.
Challenge to get ahead now.
Expect some to crash.
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Poem Details | by
Funom Makama |
Categories:
nature, new year, seasons, spring, weather,
Nature's wake from sleep
Life flirts with beauty
a time for flowers to flaunt
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Poem Details | by
EMMANUEL SAMSON |
Categories:
death, faith, imagination, lost love, love, nature, on writing and words, philosophy, sea, seasons, song-time,
Now my tendrilled soul,
Has found its pergola-- Christ--
To wind its way up....
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Poem Details | by
John Michaels |
Categories:
beauty, earth, environment, humor, nature, rainforest,
Deforestation;
blades cut a swathe through foliage:
beauty has its price.
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Poem Details | by
Ethan Plummer |
Categories:
angst,
my voice is changing
my body rearranging
i hate puberty
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Poem Details | by
Andrey Fisht |
Categories:
animals
sparkling azure
back
clever eyes of joy
chirping
dancing in water.
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Poem Details | by
farah chamma |
Categories:
art, nature,
Sealing eyes of sky,
Descend upon straps of light,
Dusk…now dreams the night...
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Poem Details | by
Charles Henderson |
Categories:
childhood,
the young girl
turning side to side
toward the mirror
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Poem Details | by
Charmaine Chircop |
Categories:
beautiful, spring,
wings flutter
on a moist petal
rose nectar
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Famous Haiku Examples
An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.
- Basho (1644-1694)
Over the wintry
forest, winds howl in rage
with no leaves to blow.
- Soseki (1275-1351)
In the twilight rain
these brilliant-hued hibiscus . . .
A lovely sunset
- Matsuo Basho
Toward those short trees
We saw a hawk descending
On a day in spring
- Shiki
The day we saw the hawk
On a churchyard tree
A kite too
Was in the far sky.
- Hekigodo
The wren
Earns his living
Noiselessly.
- Issa
The wren
Earns his living
Noiselessly.
- Issa
From time to time
The clouds give rest
To the moon-beholders.
- Bashō
Over-ripe sushi,
The Master
Is full of regret.
- Buson
Consider me
As one who loved poetry
And persimmons.
- Shiki
In the cicada's cry
No sign can foretell
How soon it must die.
- Bashō
Blowing from the west
Fallen leaves gather
In the east.
- Buson
Winter seclusion -
Listening, that evening,
To the rain in the mountain.
- Issa
My life, -
How much more of it remains?
The night is brief.
- Shiki
An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.
- Bashō
I kill an ant
and realize my three children
have been watching.
- Kato Shuson
Over the wintry
forest, winds howl in rage
with no leaves to blow.
- Soseki
Sparrow's child
out of the way, out of the way!
the stallion's coming through
- Issa
Whitecaps on the bay:
A broken signboard banging
In the April wind.
Richard Wright (1908-1960)
Snow in my shoe
Abandoned
Sparrow’s nest
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
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